Write, review and schedule an Advice article

1. Agree the article brief and reviewer

Open the editable editorial card. The fictional title is Three things to check before seasonal garden work. Write a short introduction and three sections: Describe the work, Plan ahead and Prepare questions. Use safe original wording and a Services link; make no price, availability, customer or hazardous-work claims. Choose the existing Getting ready category. Record Cedar Contributor as writer and Cedar Editor as reviewer. This example is intentionally text-only. The review card records the vague heading that the Editor will improve; keep private feedback out of the public article.

2. Create a Contributor draft and check its privacy

Sign in as Cedar Contributor in a separate browser window. Open Posts → Add Post, enter the title and full article, choose Getting ready, then Save draft. Reopen the saved draft and read it back. The full editor below shows the article and Submit for Review control. Copy its visitor address from the editor into a separate signed-out window. A draft is unavailable there. Search the public site for the unique title as a second check. The screenshots show the actual missing-page result and search exclusion. Never treat an authenticated preview as proof that a draft is public.

3. Submit the saved article for review

As Contributor, click Submit for Review. WordPress 7.1 opens a confirmation panel. Read the article identity and click the second Submit for Review button. Return to Posts and confirm Pending Review. The writer has requested editorial work; the article has not been published. Keep the brief, reviewer and intended timing in the private editorial record.

4. Preview the pending article as Editor

Save and exit the writer’s editor. Sign in as Cedar Editor and open the pending item in Posts. If WordPress shows an edit-lock notice, arrange the saved handover before using Take over. Click View and then Preview in new tab. Wait for the actual article to load; Generating preview is a temporary screen. Read the complete preview, test the Services link, and inspect it at a phone width. These full-page screenshots show the real menu and resulting desktop and phone previews. The preview remains authenticated and does not change publication status.

5. Make one explicit correction and read it back

Return to the Editor window. Replace the vague Plan ahead heading with Check access before the visit. Keep the nearby sentence about avoiding private codes and addresses. Click Save, leave the editor, then reopen the pending article. Check the full article, category and link—not only the changed heading. The screenshot below was captured after Save and reload, and the saved content still had Pending Review status. Record this as the accepted fictional wording for the exercise.

6. Choose and confirm a future release

As the course Administrator, open Settings → General and confirm the site timezone. This fixture uses Australia/Melbourne. Save any intentional change, then use the Editor account for the article again. In the Post sidebar, click Immediately beside Publish. Use the calendar’s Year, Month, Day, Hours, Minutes and AM/PM controls to choose a time several minutes in your future. Check the displayed timezone. Do not copy the historical date from these screenshots. Close the calendar, click Schedule, inspect the confirmation, and click Schedule again. The result panel and Posts list must show Scheduled and the intended local release time. Before that time, open the visitor address in a fresh signed-out window: it must still be unavailable.

7. Verify the scheduled result and final article

After the chosen time, open the visitor site and refresh the article. The scheduled WordPress event published this article after its due time. The verification did not use a manual Publish action. Confirm the reviewed heading, all surrounding paragraphs, Services link and publication date. Check the full article at desktop and phone widths, then open Advice and find the new title in its listing. Return to Posts and confirm Published. Record the local time, UTC equivalent and observed result in the editorial card. Keep this accepted article for the revisions lesson. Remove any temporary review notes from public content; the separate training drafts remain private.

Practise

Prepare the fictional article as Contributor, submit both review confirmations, preview and correct it as Editor, then schedule it for your own future time. Capture the real signed-out state before and after its release.

Check your result

The Contributor cannot publish; the Editor reviewed the full desktop and phone previews. The saved correction is present, the future article was private, and the scheduled event released the accepted content without a manual Publish shortcut.

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