Private vs. Public posts and pages

  • One feature that I would love to see when composing or managing a post or page is whether to give it public (not logged in) or private (logged in) status. Setting a page or post to “public” would appear as normal, but “private” would never show up in the list or in a search — i.e. anyone not registered would never know it even existed.

    For the moment, I have set my WP install not to show pages, I link them manually through my site. However, they would show up in a search. Anything I’ve wanted to keep private I’ve had to move off the blog to a hard-coded page.

    Put simply: There are some things I want available to me, or those who I allow to register, but not to the rest of the world. ??

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  • Actually, taking a second look, doing what I mentioned just made all of those entries “published” — i.e. public! Lucky for me I password protected that directory. (Making the entries private makes them disappear from the site, not the admin area.)

    So, the private entry feature isn’t working (for me) on 1.5 but it is working properly on my 1.5.1 install.

    I would like the ability to password protect the entire site–it’s a private blog/journal.

    Can’t you just password protect the directory of your WP install? Does it have to be password protected with a WP plug in? There are scripts to password protect directories.

    The reason I wanted a WP specific “fix” was just so I wouldn’t have to remember separate login information. But, I do already use htaccess to protect the directory.

    Anyways, here’s a post that’s relevant (mentions plugins that supposedly work with 1.5.1): https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/35483

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