Can I publish a post without my followers being notified?

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  bjfb · Member · Aug 8, 2014 at 1:50 pm

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  I want to publish a password-protected post without my blog’s followers being notified about it. How can I do this? If I publish it as a password-protected page, rather than a post, will followers get a notification?

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  francisbob · Member · Aug 8, 2014 at 2:28 pm

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  Hi there !

  Doing a password protected page would be a better idea, since every update to the blog section of your website, even password protected posts. (Private posts won’t though)

  Followers won’t be alerted of a new page, and you could only give the link of the page to specific people, without mentioning it on the visible part of your website.

  You can read a little more about it here :

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/followers/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/

  Hope this helps !

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  bjfb · Member · Aug 8, 2014 at 3:27 pm

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  Thanks very much. The page you linked to doesn’t explicitly say that followers aren’t notified of new pages (I’d already checked it), but that is very helpful.

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  francisbob · Member · Aug 8, 2014 at 4:11 pm

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  No you’re right. If I’m not wrong, followers will see what is in the RSS feed of your WordPress site ( http://bjfb.wordpress.com/feed/ )

  Change in the layout (Menu / CSS / etc) or adding/removing Pages on your website are invisible to RSS Readers and Followers since they don’t update the feed (that’s how WordPress works) with their changes.