Publishing your post

After you give your new post a title; write the content of your new blog post; maybe add an image or other type of media file to your blog post (see Book IV, Chapter 4); and configure the tags, categories, and other options, now the question is: Publish? Or not to publish (yet)?
WordPress gives you three options for saving or publishing your post when
you’re done writing it. The Publish module is located on the right side of
the Add New (or Edit) Post page. Just click the title of the Publish module to
expand the settings you need. Figure 1-6 shows the available options in the
Publish module.

The Publish module has several options:

✦ Save Draft: Click this button to save your post as a draft. The Add New
Post page reloads with all your post contents and options saved; you
can continue editing it now, tomorrow, the next day, or next year — the
post is saved as a draft until you decide to publish it or delete it. To
access your draft posts, click the Posts link on the Posts menu.
✦ Preview: Click the Preview button to view your post in a new window,
as it would appear on your live blog if you’d published it. Previewing the
post doesn’t publish it to your site yet. It gives you the opportunity to
view it on your site and check it for any formatting or content changes
you want to make.
✦ Status: Click the Edit link to open the settings for this option. A drop-
down list appears, from which you can select Draft or Pending Review:
• Draft: Save the post in draft form but don’t publish it to your blog.
• Pending Review: The post shows up in your list of drafts next to a
Pending Review header. This option lets the administrator of the
blog know that contributors have entered posts that are waiting for
administrator review and approval (helpful for blogs that have mul-
tiple authors).Generally, only contributors use the Pending Review
option.
Click the OK button to save your Status setting.
✦ Public: Select this option to make the post viewable to everyone who
visits your site.
✦ Stick This Post to the Front Page: Select this check box to have
WordPress publish the post to your blog and keep it at the very top of all blog posts until you change this setting for the post.