Do You Unpublish Articles Before Editing?

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   eugbugposted 22 months ago

   I have a major overhaul I need to do on one article, changing diagrams and the annotations on them. If anyone visits it during editing, it'll be totally confusing because changes in variables in equations and symbols on diagrams will be half finished. The problem with edit mode is that changes are saved immediately and "Done Editing" actually does nothing AFAIK.

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      bravewarriorposted 22 months agoin reply to this

      I wasn't aware that articles are viewable when the author is editing.

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         eugbugposted 22 months agoin reply to this

         Edits are saved straight away after you click "save" on a capsule. "Done Editing" doesn't actually do anything.

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            Miebakagh57posted 22 months agoin reply to this

            No. The 'done editing' finally saved the edit.

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      CYong74posted 22 months agoin reply to this

      No. I do everything in Word, etc, the copy and paste.

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   FatFreddysCatposted 22 months ago

   I guess if it requires major surgery like you describe, it might not be a bad idea to unpublish it before making wholesale changes.
   
   If you're doing simple fixes like correcting typos or changing photos/videos, though, I don't think it would be necessary.

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   Glenn Stokposted 22 months ago

   A trick I mentioned in one of my tutorials is to make extensive changes in hidden capsules. Then make all the hidden capsules visible only after you’re done editing. That way you don’t have to unpublish the entire article while working on it.

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   ravirajan01posted 22 months ago

   I also do the same thing Ced mentioned. I do all the editing and additions in Word and then modify the article in HP in one go.That way, there is minimum intermittent time.

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   Ben716posted 22 months ago

   What I usually do if I'm making extensive changes to an article is to copy the whole article and paste it on Word. After I'm through with the article, I click the edit button and paste the changed article.
   
   I'm kind of afraid if I unpublish an article, particularly if it's performing well, it might lose its position or score in Google search results since the search engine will consider it as a new article.
   
   I republished an article, edited it, and republished it. The result of republishing the article led it to losing the position it was on Google search results.

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   eugbugposted 22 months ago

   Unpublishing an article for less than a day doesn't appear to remove an article from the featured list of articles so probably there's a delay before Hubpages removes it from their system or tells Google to deindex it.

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   ravirajan01posted 22 months ago

   I think is 24 hours before Hubpages removes it from the system.

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   Miebakagh57posted 22 months ago

   It's after 24 hours. A minute or two after this time makes a difference.

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   psycheskinnerposted 22 months ago

   No - unless there is sone catastrophic error in the hub I would rather have it live - especially if others are linking to it

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