draft unpublished published – what’s the difference
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I thought you might prefer it if i put all my questions separately rather than in one post? I have a few more to come.
What is the difference between “draft” “unpublished” and “published” Normally, I think i know but i also think nothing here is as it seems. So please spell it out simply for me. Normally i wouldn’t have said there was a difference between a draft and an unpublished post.
Which is best to use for a blog that will only be available to my eyes and which i will need to go in and edit often. I intend to have two blogs.
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A draft is visible to no-one but people with admin access on the blog. Your readers cannot see a draft. A draft and an unpublished post are the same thing. A published post is on the main blog and anyone with access to the blog can see it. For private blogs, that means only a limited number of people. For password-protected posts, it means only people who have the password. For other posts, it means anyone can read it.
If you want a blog visible only to yourself, start with a private blog and don’t invite anyone else into it.
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FYI: staff do have access to private blogs, but they don’t read them recreationally as far as I know.
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I am not really bothered about the staff unless they were going to steal my work, which i doubt.
If a draft and an unpublished post are the same thing, why do they use all three terms on the dashboard?
Can you alter the public/private status of your blog easily and as and when you want?
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Why do they use all three terms on the dashboard? I have no idea.
Can you alter public/private status easily? Yes and no: you can go from MORE privacy to LESS, but in practice it is virtually impossible to go the other way around. Technically it’s easy to take a public blog and set it to Private, but that won’t take all the posts for the past off Google, Yahoo, MSN, Archive.org, etc.
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I am not even talking about google. They are not even in the picture and I think i will always prefer it that way. My blog would only ever be for people on this site or to those i give the address to from other sources. I am not searching for vast numbers of readers and I will always set the google question to off.
If i first set my blog to private for only chosen members of this website so that no one can read it but those i invite.
Then i change it to public so that anyone on the website can read it or anyone i give the web address to. Can everyone read it?
And then if i change it back to private, can it be just like before even though someone has the address. ie. so no one can access the site any longer?
I don’t mean to be exasperating but I have a very specific idea in mind.
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You don’t understand: once your blog is readable by other people, they can link to it. Even if you have the search engine features set to Off, Google will still find you if anyone anywhere links to that blog. You need to know that.
If you have a private blog and then switch it to Public, yes, anyone can read it. People you know, people you don’t know, anyone.
If you then change it back to Private, no-one will be able to get to the blog itself or the new posts except the people to whom you give access, but all of the old stuff will already be archived somewhere and readable by anyone who finds it, so if you wrote something and think it may get you into trouble, setting the blog to Private is not going to help much.
Setting a public blog to private is quite shockingly ineffective and I caution you against even considering it a possibility. Technically, yes, you can do it. Functionally, it’s not going to do you much good if you are trying to keep secrets.
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To give you an idea of the way privacy can be busted: there are two usernames in this thread other than mine, and from the conversation I can already conclude they are the same person. The link I posted in the other thread has some good suggestions and I encourage you to read the whole thing before going much farther.
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