Change status of post from Private to Public without sending to subscribers

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  liveclay · Member · Jul 15, 2015 at 6:02 pm

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  I have a couple posts that were published a while back, but then I changed the status to private because I didn’t want them on the blog at that time. I would now like them to be public again, but it seems that if I change the status, they will be re-published and sent to my subscribers… who already received them once. I tested one and this is what happened.

  Is there a way to change the status w/out re-“publishing” to subscribers??

  Thanks.

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  snowmads · Staff · Jul 15, 2015 at 10:01 pm

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  Did you change the date of the blog that you took private back to public and make it look current, or was it still backdated to the original posting date? I was under the impression that older blogs that had been published once wouldn’t send new emails to subscribers with subsequent changes, but I’ve never actually tested that theory. :-)

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  liveclay · Member · Jul 17, 2015 at 5:58 pm

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  Thanks snowmads. I’m giving it another try. No, I didn’t change the date on the test post but it was so long ago that now I’m wondering if it was something I’d written but saved as a draft and never published the first time…. So, trying again with a post that I KNOW was previously published!

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  timethief · Member · Jul 17, 2015 at 6:02 pm

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  Public posts appear in the RSS feed immediately after publication and that is how they are sent to subscribers. This cannot be prevented.

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  liveclay · Member · Jul 17, 2015 at 6:05 pm

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  Thanks timethief. I’m talking about a post that was previously published, but them switched to Private a year later. My question is whether, if I change the status back to Public, it will be sent out again to subscribers? I know that when posts are published for the first time they always appear on the RSS feed…