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Anyone know a way round this?

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-draft-page-as-parent

I can't risk publishing as a public-facing system updates periodically from the same install.

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I don't see why you'd want to have a non-public parent page The only way in which page hierarchy has any unique meaning is in cases that it's public. If you want this for associative purposes, I'd create a custom hierarchical taxonomy and use that to associate your non-public data (you could even mark it as 'private' instead of 'draft'). – John P Bloch Oct 27 '10 at 13:49
@John: I found this a problem when I wanted to draft both a parent page and children at the same time. – e100 Nov 12 '10 at 17:22

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There is one way to do this, but it's kind of wonky. Instead of not publishing the page, you can hide the content.

Make a theme template named HidePageTemplate.php. On the page you want hidden change your template file to whatever you named your template In the template copy the structure of the 404 page. This way the page is published, so the child pages are published, but the content isn't visible.

/* Template Name: Hide Page Template */ get header 404-Not Found get sidebar get footer

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Thanks Eileen. Unfortunately we need to set the templates to load in the correct custom fields for authoring the content (The site uses Custom Field Templates). If I had my way, we would get rid of Custom Field Templates but thats not an option at the moment. – codecowboy Oct 29 '10 at 8:03
I think I'm not entirely understanding what you need to do. I've never used that plugin. Maybe if you could better explain what the "hidden" parent page is supposed to do. WOuld the content from /about appear not on /about but rather on /about/our-team? You can still query all the content from the /about page onto any page you want. Also perhaps this might help, try building your own custom fields, maybe that will solve the problem. The link I used to do this is here sltaylor.co.uk/blog/control-your-own-wordpress-custom-fields – eileen.carpenter Oct 29 '10 at 14:00
Did that help at all? – eileen.carpenter Nov 1 '10 at 21:45
This isn't a great solution if you want to keep the post entirely secret. If your post were to get pulled in a search, it would print out at least the excerpt. – John P Bloch Nov 15 '10 at 14:04
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You can't use unpublished pages as parents (or as a static front page, for that matter).

Eileen has, I think, a very elegant workaround.

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