I'd like a way to filter articles by what stage of completion they are in. That's all. :)

you mean between peer reviewed and under review?

Between draft, awaiting approval, and approved, and also between categories like programming and design, and also I want to sort them by most recently updated. So I can do something like, show only approved design articles sorted by most recently approved, or show all awaiting approval articles sorted by most recent update.

I will let Mike answer whether that's doable or not (keep in mind only mods can see all the extra draft and awaiting approval articles)

As for setting the category, you do that on the right-side bar under the publishing date

Uh, what right side bar would that be?


I used to have a right side bar in the forums that showed new developer journal entries and forum topics, but it went away months ago - I assumed that was a site-wide style change, but maybe not?

Also, if only mods can see the awaiting approval articles, no wonder anyone is voting on any of them. Maybe that could be extended to regular users with high reputations?

Uh, what right side bar would that be?

In the Edit Article form

Also, if only mods can see the awaiting approval articles, no wonder anyone is voting on any of them.

Well, yea, no one can vote on them until they have passed initial approval. Mike was handling that to test out the system and now I'm taking that role again and will be approving new articles into peer review

I apologize if I'm being really dumb about this, but I don't have a sidebar in the edit article form either:

Authors can't see their own awaiting-approval articles? That seems odd. What if they realize they left something out after hitting the publish button?

Aha, yes the resolution was the problem and I now have a sidebar and was able to fix the category. ^_^