Document tabs

A document can hold several tabs, the way a Google Doc can. They exist for a specific problem: a piece of content usually comes with material that belongs to it but must never be published with it.

What tabs are for

The brief. The research. The outline you argued about. The list of sources. The old version you might go back to.

All of that belongs beside the copy, not in a separate document nobody opens. Tabs put it there without it ever reaching your site.

The rule that matters

Exactly one tab syncs to WordPress. The rest live only in Workover.

So a document can look like this:

• Article ← the synced tab, the one that becomes the post
• Brief
• Research
• Screenshots to take

Push the document and only the first tab goes. The other three are invisible to WordPress and to anyone reading your site.

Working with tabs

Add one from the tab bar at the top of the document. Rename by clicking the name. Drag to reorder, and drag one onto another to nest it — useful once a document has more than a handful.

Each tab has its own content and its own version history. Deleting a tab deletes what is in it, so move anything you want to keep first.

Choosing the synced tab

The first tab is the synced one by default. If you need a different one — you drafted in “v2” and want that to be what publishes — set it explicitly from the tab’s menu. The tab bar marks which one it is, so it is never a guess.

Changing which tab syncs does not push anything on its own. The next push sends the newly-chosen tab.

What this replaces

Two habits, both worse:

• Notes at the bottom of the document, deleted before publishing. They get published anyway, eventually.
• A second document for the brief, which drifts from the piece and is never opened again.

Related

• Editor basics
• Pushing a document to WordPress
• Version history