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I totally get 'workflow': draft, unpublished, approved, published etc, and 'roles': creators, editors, moderators, publishers etc. I also appreciate the idea of having some version control.

With the demo it wasn't intuitive how the above applied to the post, or the creation process. Order mattered, but it wasn't straight forward figuring out the required process. Resulting in frustration.

You speak of a staging area, or some such. But how is the user to know about your version control system, or how it works?

Surely hitting save should be as good a commit? Or the save implies or triggers a commit? If the commit is that important to the publishing process, emblazen it across the bottom with the Save button.

I really just wanted to see how my page looked as early as possible. And be able to see the page before it was published. You should be able to preview content, but make it clear that the status/workflow of the page you are viewing: You could add a banner across an unpublished page with the page status displayed.