In my individual archives, I am attempting to leave a message behind for readers when an Article is closed.  However, using {if status==“closed”} (or “Closed”) doesn’t display anything.  Also {status<>“open”} doesn’t work.

Any ideas?  Possible bug?  I can’t believe that its a designed that way.  I must be doing something wrong.  EE latest build version.

That’s because closed entries are never fetched by the query, so there is nothing “closed” to test for.

Rather than looking for closed entries, try using this:

{if no_results}
This article is gone! Doh!
{/if}

(FYI: you posted this in a pMachine forum)

You can, of course, include “closed” entries in your list by specifying it with the status= parameter.  To get what (I think) you want, you could try something like this:

The only thing I would add to Chris’ suggestion is to put in the {title} field so they at least know *which* article is closed.

Thanks.  My problem was with putting it outside the exp:weblog:entries container.

BTW, the {title} won’t work since the article is closed and therefore never parsed from the database.