2 sam2kb Mar 02, 2012 07:05

I've written a brief blog article explaining how to edit the b2evolution v4 source code to remove this button, in case there's anyone out there searching for the same thing.
Removing b2evolution publish button
http://www.bigsoft.co.uk/blog/index.php/2012/05/22/removing-b2evolution-publish-button
You can do this with CSS too, just add this to /skins_adm/chicago/rsc/css/chicago.css
form#item_checkchanges div.edit_actions input[name="actionArray\[create_publish\]"] { display: none !important }
In b2evolution v5 there's a setting to select default post visibility status for each blog. If you set it to "draft" the publish button will not be shown and you will not even need to select the status every time.