Version 3.5.1
My host had a total catastrophe and I lost my whole hosting account. I've had to start from scratch with my site (we'd just hit 1,000,000 words too - damn!).
Anyway, the database was on another server, so it was fine but the efiction install is now about a month old (an upgrade backup off my hard drive - the host had no backups at all). Lucky for me I kept it but, of course, that means the two are out of sync.
So, I have about a month's worth of stories showing up that don't actually exist anymore. I'd like to keep the titles & summaries for when I re-add the "missing" stories but in the meantime, I'd rather not have them show up in the frontend.
Can I go through the backend (phpMyAdmin maybe) and 'unpublish' the missing stories without deleting them?
The simplest thing to do would be to edit them and set "validated" to "no" for each chapter. This will put them in the validation queue. This will get confusing if you do actually use the queue under normal circumstances, though, unless you turn off new submissions. Or, you could actually use a mod I use to sort things by date/time submitted (of course anything submitted before will have no date/time, but that will make it stand out as one of the ones with missing chapters). It's here: https://efiction.org/forums/index.php?topic=6011.msg32484#msg32484 Just read down a couple of posts to where I posted the change I made to get it to sort by submit time instead of alphabetically.
ah yes, good thinking Lyndsie, thank you. When they're in the validation queue (which I don't use, so it's all good) will the authors still be able to edit them?
thanks again for the clear thinking. It's been a wild weekend for me 🙂
Authors can normally edit their fics while in the validation queue, to the best of my knowledge. If you're not sure, you can test it with a test fic or something.
Thanks again, Lyndsie. Just one more question (sorry) - how do I retrospectively mark stories to go to the validation queue?
I'm in there now, and I can't see where I do it (never having done it before). Sigh. Stress.
Got it - I "edit" each story and mark "validation" as "No". That seems to do the trick.
Thanks again Lyndsie!
