Private posts and pages don’t show up in sidebar widget on a fresh installation

That’s intentional, the widget will only ever display publicly posted posts and pages.

@macmanx Oh, okay. Thanks for the reply. Any way to change that? A plugin maybe?

There’s no direct way.

There might be a plugin, but I haven’t seen one myself (which isn’t saying one doesn’t exist, there just is currently 54,622 plugins in the free directory alone, and I don’t know all of them).

@macmanx Of course it’s impossible for you to know them all, didn’t mean to say that ?? I just thought, it would be kind of a common issue, no? I have some pages which I only want to show up in the sidebar once the visitor is logged in. Like a “secret menu” to private pages for registered users. Am I thinking something completely the wrong way here?

This is actually the first I’ve hard of someone wanting this in quite some time. ??

@macmanx Oh, I didn’t expect that. What’s the point of private pages, then?

Just pages that are only available to logged in users.

Lots of folks use those, I just haven’t heard many folks ask about why the widget wasn’t displaying them in quite some time.

@macmanx Yeah, but usually I want to have an easy way to provide access to those pages, right? Doesn’t matter if private or public. That’s why I’m confused about the widget not showing them.

I found this plugin https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/posts-in-sidebar/ which has the option to show private pages, too. So I’m now using that widget instead of the regular one. ??