Understand the content lifecycle
Draft, schedule, publish, archive, and restore content without breaking its public identity.
States
- Draft — private and editable
- Scheduled — private until its publication time arrives
- Published — available to public readers and APIs
- Archived — removed from public listings
restoredis not a separate stored status. An archived post can be returned to draft, scheduled, or published through the editor or management API.
Revisions and slugs
Prosewire creates revisions before destructive content changes. Slugs are unique within a blog, and when a published slug changes, the old public URL redirects to the new canonical URL.
Revision snapshots retain the actor and version for auditability. The current dashboard does not provide revision browsing or one-click revision restore. Changing an archived post back to a working status does not delete its revision history.
Portable exports
The posts screen provides a versioned JSON export containing publication metadata, authors, categories, snippets, redirects, full posts, and revision snapshots. CSV contains post fields plus author and category identifiers for spreadsheet interoperability. Prosewire does not currently provide an import workflow, so test your own restore process before relying on exports as a backup.
Discovery follows publication
Search, RSS, sitemap, related-post, and structured-data surfaces follow the same public visibility rule: content must be published and its publication time must have arrived.