NOTE: this information originated as help to one individual kosak in 2015 and has been revised a few times since then to accommodate site changes. The 2015 comments refer to the diary having originally been title, “Nothing to see here, move along, move along. :D” Kosmail to diarist if you feel further revision is needed, or just comment about it.
HOW TO UNPUBLISH TO RESCHED OR DELETE — http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1505122/60533958#comment_60533958 is belinda ridgewood’s quick version for the knowledgeable kosak. (Knowsak?)
For the rest of us, the step-by-step is as follows, keeping in mind that you can hit SAVE DRAFT and back-arrow out anytime you want to just leave the process and not finish after all.
Keep these instructions readable in a separate browser tab, so you can refer to the instructions in it, a step at a time.
It’s usually a good idea to read the instructions in full before actually using them.
Open another browser tab for the published diary you want to unpublish.
If it’s not your most recent diary nor even near the top of your blogview page, click on MY STORIES in your drop-down menu, and scroll down the list you get. Hopefully it won’t be too far away.
(Note. You might want to practice first on a really old diary you don’t care about much with the fewest recs and comments.)
Click on the diary title to put it onscreen.
Click on EDIT in that published diary. The EDIT button is located below the diary title at the left margin, just above TAGS and last after usually-3 other options which are: “Add to Blog” and “RSS” and “Update”. EDIT has a sketch of a pencil to its left.
Clicking on EDIT gives you the draft view of the published diary. That view is like a layer that lives behind the published version.
<big>If</big> you’re working with very large fonts, you probably won’t be able to see that big honking black&orange toolbox on the right side of your draft screen yet. To make it appear, you’ll need to look in the top right corner of your screen and find a square button with 3 horizontal bars in it, the same as many websites use to indicate MENU, like this:
It’s to the right of a rectangular button that says <big>Save</big> and another that says <big>Publish.</big> Click on the button with the 3 horizontal bars, and the toolbox will slide into view from the right margin into the screen. So now everyone has that toolbox and can follow the same steps.
At the top of the black part of this box (i.e., just below the smallish orange section) are the words STATUS:PUBLISHED followed by the diary’s title. Check there to make sure it really is the diary you want to unpublish.
Ignore the gray bar that says Add a publish group, and ignore the white bar that says PUBLISH CHANGES — look further down for the smaller, hard to read grey-on-black-background words <big>Unpublish this story.</big>
When you hover your cursor on those words, they turn bright orange.
Click on the now-bright-orange Unpublish this story.
NOW the diary is out of public view — both off your blogview page and off the pages of any/all groups where it had been published before. (At this point, only your draft exists, and you actually can see it back in your drafts folder.)
<big><big>4)……………………...</big></big>
You now see 2 choices plus a 3rd “invisible” one:
<big><big>5)…………………...</big></big>
If you just needed to hold the story in limbo for some period of time, planning to publish it again manually, the black&orange toolbox is there when you’re read to publish it again. (If it was reblogged at howevermany groups, it’s gone from there, and that will need to be done again if the diary is to be in those groups’ posting history/diary-list & blogview besides in yours.)
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If, on the other hand, you wanted to put automatic-publish settings on it for publishing it again:
<big>6.a)……...</big>
Click on the hard-to-see gray-on-black <big>Schedule for Later, </big> that’s just to the right of Unpublish this story below the <small><tt>PUBLISH CHANGES</tt></small>button.
<big>6.b)……...</big>
That gives you the calendar and digital clock for setting the scheduling.
If you change your mind while you’re doing it, there’s a <big>Cancel</big> button below the digital clock, and an <big>Unschedule</big> button for if you change your mind later as long as it’s before the calendar and clock settings automatically kick in and publish.
For further info, see tutorial “How to Queue Drafts to Groups You're In, to Publish'em There — & How to Republish/Reblog Diaries too“ … that’s because the scheduling you do using the tool box for republishing purposes will not take effect at any groups where the diary was published before or groups where you’d like it to be. So, that tutorial explains about using the Add a publish group button and how to move from there to the group queue to put settings on … IF YOU’RE AN EDITOR or admin in the given group, and what options you have if you’re not.
If you do publish it from a group queue, the settings you put on it IN THE GROUP’S QUEUE will publish it both there AND at your own blogpage simultaneously. DON’T HIT PUBLISH IN YR TOOLBOX if you queue to any groups — that’ll only publish it at yr own blogview/diary-list without publishing at those groups. queues.
▮▮▮ click on the 3-bar/menu button to disappear the toolbox;
▮▮▮ click on SAVE just to be on the safe side, & wait ‘til you see SAVED.
▮▮▮ click on back-arrow to exit out of the draft,
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