Pending Post -> If the post under moderation, these post will under this area.

Draft Post -> This draft have 2 section :

Situation 1 :
If the post never publish before, it will store as draft, mean it will show on draft page.
If you delete this from draft page, the whole article content will get delete also.

Situation 2 : If the post have published before, then the author want to edit again with this published blog post, but can't finish in time and save as draft temporary. This draft will also appear on draft page as long as the current edited content which save as draft post.

If you delete the draft post from the draft page, it will not delete the existing post which already published, it will only delete the current draft which you save as draft temporary.

Ok, just quickly then please can you take a look at article 1195 on our site.

It is published already but it is still in the pending section as well.

Please don't delete it, we don't want to lose it, but please explain why this is happening

The other problem we find, is that when we open an article in pending, without making any changes, if we close it, it goes to the drafts section. I don't have any evidence for you, because it is not all the time and I would need to record it to show you.

Thanks

I believe this post (ID - 1195) author trying to edit his post again and click submit.

Once this author click submit/update his post again, this post will send to your site moderator/admin to review first.

Because your site author do not have permission to directly publish their blog post on your site, they have to submit their post for review by your moderator first.

In other word, when the author edit their post and update it, this post will under pending.