Can I publish a Page as Private and have it be a parent

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  atomicgeography · Member · Sep 2, 2014 at 3:53 pm

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  I want to build a Page with subpages that is private. I set up the Page I intend to be the parent Page, but it does not display in the drop down menu of Parent Pages on my intended sub Pages. Does publishing a Page as Private prevent it from displaying in the menu of available parent pages? If so is there a way around this?

  thanks

  bob

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Sep 2, 2014 at 10:09 pm

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  Hi Bob,

  Private pages cannot be parent pages as well. However, a private page can be a child page of another parent page. Does that make sense?

  If you would like to use your page as a parent page and still restrict access, you could set it up as a password protected page:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/

  Would that work for what you’re looking for?

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  atomicgeography · Member · Sep 2, 2014 at 10:21 pm

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  Jeremey,

  thanks for the info.

  I’m not sure if this works for my purposes. Do you know if I set up a password protected page, are the followers of my blog notified? I don’t want to notify them of something I don’t want them to access.

  bob

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Sep 2, 2014 at 11:05 pm

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  Hey Bob!

  Your blog followers will not get notified of pages, only for posts. So, even if you create a public page, they will not be notified.

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  atomicgeography · Member · Sep 3, 2014 at 12:17 pm

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  Jeremey,

  ok, great!

  you’ve been very helpful, thanks

  bob

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Sep 3, 2014 at 4:52 pm

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  Not a problem Bob! Happy to help with this.