post status

Posts in WordPress can have one of a number of statuses. The status of a given post determines how WordPress handles that post. Post status allows users to set a workflow status for it. WordPress provides 8 built-in statuses. They are published, future, draft, pending, trash, auto-draft, and inherit. A post may also have a “new” status if it was just created and hasn’t had any previous status. These statuses allows users to organize their posts in the admin panel.