Alternate way to set ALL previous posts to private but upcoming posts to public
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Hi!
I’ve been planning to upgrade my current site to a domain of its own for an upcoming business. Take note that I am firm on using the same username for the business website because this has stored more than a yearlong chronicle of my past year, so it would be too much of a waste if I deleted them. That said, I would still like to maintain my current username for the domain but turn ALL my previous posts to private before I create new ones for public viewing.
So is there an alternative way to turn ALL MY PREVIOUS POSTS into private in one go instead of having to manually reset each and every one of them?
Thanks!
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Use Post Bulk Edit and tick the box to make the selected posts “Private” and click “Update”.
See here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#bulk-editOne caveat, Bulk Edit doesn’t seem to be working correctly at the moment; if this is urgent, you can also use the Quick Edit for each post. Still faster than opening each post individually.
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Sorry, was too quick on the “Submit” button. I neglected to change the “Bulk Actions” dropdown to “Edit”. It’s working OK for me.
One additional thing you might consider, what is going to happen to all those posts that you are about to change to Private posts? If your blog was public, i.e. you allowed Search engines to crawl your site, those previous posts are now going to be coming up as 404 errors.
Would it not suit your purpose to register a new blog under the same username? If you are going to be using domain mapping to your own domain, it really doesn’t matter what the underlying WordPress.com URL is because it will be “hidden” by the domain name you map to.
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