Title: Draft posts showing under Recent Posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Draft posts showing under Recent Posts

 *  Resolved [Sculley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sculley/)
 * (@sculley)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-posts-showing-under-recent-posts/)
 * My draft posts are showing under Recent Posts on the sidebar. After creating 
   the drafts, I clicked “Draft” and not “Publish”. Is there anyway from preventing
   Draft posts from showing? These are not posts for the public to see just yet.
   Some of them are written for weeks out.
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-posts-showing-under-recent-posts/#post-1712374)
 * You’ll need to explain what you are using to display ‘Recent Posts’–like a plugin
   or widget or code.
 * Also might what to provide a link to see the problem–make sure you explain what
   post is still a draft.
 *  Thread Starter [Sculley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sculley/)
 * (@sculley)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-posts-showing-under-recent-posts/#post-1712385)
 * Thanks for your reply, Micheal. I had used straight code originally but what 
   I did was go in and use widgets. That fixed the problem. Thanks again. I appreciate
   the reply.

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 * Last reply from: [Sculley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sculley/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/draft-posts-showing-under-recent-posts/#post-1712385)
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