Draft Mode

I quickly learned within the first few days of blogging is that a post in Blogger can be saved in draft mode or published.  Furthermore a post that was previously posted could be saved as draft to effectively remove it from the blog.  It can then be edited and re-published, deleted or sit in draft mode.  Draft mode is ideal for setting up certain codes such as pictures that you want to turn into clickable links or trying out other code.  At the same time draft mode is a great way to set up a series of posts that you return to later to finish and publish.  I often write a series of posts in draft mode with markers where I want the pictures once I get the pictures ready.  This is a great help when I'm on vacation where I may feel like writing a post or two but don't feel like editing pictures.  So the draft posts can sit in draft mode until I get home and get the pictures ready.  The downside to draft mode is when you download your back-up in xml the drafts are included.  From a blogger's perspective this is a good thing.  However if you are using the xml file to create a pdf for an ebook that is a bad thing as you don't want the drafts showing there.  The Blogger work-around is to download the back-up complete with drafts into xml.  Then go back and delete all the drafts and download a second xml.  Use the second xml for the pdf creation and the first one to restore your drafts.

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