{"id":2415,"date":"2026-08-01T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=2415"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:52:00","password":"","slug":"what-is-meta-status-not-published-draft-published","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/what-is-meta-status-not-published-draft-published\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Meta Status (Not published \/ DRAFT \/ PUBLISHED)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Not published<\/strong>: The flow has not been sent to Meta yet. Use <strong>Create on Meta<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>DRAFT<\/strong>: The flow exists on Meta but is not yet approved for use. Use <strong>Publish on Meta<\/strong> to submit for approval.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>PUBLISHED<\/strong>: Meta has approved the flow; you can send it to users (e.g. via Send Flow).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only <strong>PUBLISHED<\/strong> flows can be used in live messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only PUBLISHED flows can be used in live messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[1966],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2415","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-whatsapp-flows"],"year_month":"2026-08","word_count":62,"total_views":"30","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"WhatsApp Flows","term_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb-cat\/whatsapp-flows\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}