P: There is no way to un-mark photos for republishing in Publish Services.

Automatic re-publishing without any user control has cost me a number of grey hairs already. I keep loosing comments on Facebook when photos get re-published automatically. I think it is a badly needed feature. How long would it take until such a feature is added ?

Sounds like a good idea. In the meantime, the way to work around this issue is to use virtual copies. If you want to make changes to a photo that you've published (and don't want that photo to be flagged for republishing) make a virtual copy before you make changes, and make your changes to the virtual copy.

Thanks,
Ben

I think this is supported in Jeffrey Friedl's flickr plugin. Maybe use that instead, at least for the time being.

Hi. I have been asked to put more details on here re a LR3 Flickr Publish issue, by @9618438.

The auto republish of modified images is a real problem for me. I need to be able to stop photos republishing as I often will re-edit a photo (for example a square crop to use on FoodGawker) If this republishes, not only does it change on Flickr but it removes it from my blog, which references from Flickr, Might this be an option on an upcoming update?

I can't keep track of all the photos I have used in my blog or published to Flickr so I can't have it changing them when I just brighten them for use as a jpg or re-vignette them when I re-crop for a blog header.

So, the Lightroom SDK *does* support "un-mark photos for republishing", but each plugin must implement an interface for it, or else it won't be available.

But I think this feature should be available to all publishing services, by inclusion in the context menu...

I think this feature is broken as designed. I use it for flickr. I used Jeffrey's in the past with LR2, but it stopped working when I upgraded to LR3. I assumed the built in system would work for me but it is too inflexible.

If I accidentally drag a photo into the publish services, I cannot "unpublish" it.

If I experiment with an old photo I had previously published, it will alter the photo my online permanent archive without my permission.

I guess I'm doing it wrong. But my opinion is that a tool shouldn't enforce how I should use it. A tool may make a polite suggestion as to it's best use, but should be flexible enough to allow the user the ability to work how they want to. Even if it's wrong.

It's not the first place I'd have looked either!

Correct it is in the Extras for the Picasaweb plug in - my mistake in not looking there!!

I just checked with Jeffrey and he said:
"I’m pretty sure that I added it to all my Publish uploader plugins, via "Re-Mark as Published" in the "Extras" menu for the plugin under Plugin Extras (e.g. "File > Plugin Extras > Facebook Extras"). So, that’d be Flickr, Facebook, PicasaWeb, SmugMug, and Zenfolio."

Hopefully that'll help fill the gap in the meantime, although I agree it should be available as part of the base program regardless.

Jeffrey's Picasweb plug in doesn't have a way of turning off republish of specific files. All develop changes trigger republish along with selectable metadata changes.
Bu again once trigger for republish no way to "untrigger"