Title: Cannot save as a Draft
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Cannot save as a Draft

 *  [gcranston](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gcranston/)
 * (@gcranston)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-save-as-default/)
 * Thanks for producing this plugin. Something I notice, is that I’m unable to save
   as a draft anymore with this activated – it simply publishes it as a private 
   post.
 * The behaviour I was hoping for was that a new post would default to “Visibility:
   Private” in the Publish section, so that when publish was clicked it would be
   private as default unless it was manually changed to public – it does this correctly.
   However, I was hoping to be able to use draft as I do now until the post is complete,
   and then to publish once done, with private already being the default.
 * Are there simple modifications that could be made either myself or in the plugin?
   Without having options/UI, I would have thought this would be the more instinctive
   default behaviour.
 * Is there an alternative way of having posts ready to be private by default when
   they first get published?
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-by-default/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-by-default/)

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 * Last reply from: [gcranston](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gcranston/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-save-as-default/)
 * Status: not resolved