Publishing vs saving as draft in WordPress
When WP Assist creates new WordPress content, it saves it as a draft by default. This is an intentional safety feature — AI-generated content should always be reviewed before it goes live on your website. You can choose to publish immediately if you prefer, or review first and publish later.
Default behaviour: save as draft
If you ask WP Assist to write a blog post or create a new page without specifying what to do with it, the content will be saved to WordPress with a Draft status. This means it's saved in your WordPress but not yet visible to visitors.
To publish a draft, you can either do it from the WordPress admin or ask WP Assist directly: "Publish the post you just wrote."
How to publish immediately
Include a publish instruction in your original request to WP Assist, for example:
- "Write a blog post about X and publish it."
- "Create a new page about our services and publish it live."
WP Assist will create the content and publish it directly to your WordPress site in one step.
Changing a published page to draft
WP Assist can also move published content to draft status — for example, to temporarily take a page offline while you update it:
- "Set my homepage to draft while I redesign it."
- "Unpublish my old pricing page."
WP Assist never deletes: Setting content to draft is the most "destructive" action WP Assist can take. Content is never permanently deleted — you can always restore a draft page or post to published status.