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  joynmsu · Member · May 14, 2019 at 2:35 pm

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  Hello, I made my entire site private.

  However, that’s not what I want. I want to keep several pages on my site public (my homepage, my work page, my contact me page).

  But, I do not want any of my blog posts public anymore. How do I quickly change all of them (900+) to private? Bulk action edit only works for ~10-20 URLs at a time. I made the main blog post page private, but it was still visible. So were all my blog posts that live under that page.

  thanks,
  Joy

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · May 14, 2019 at 3:03 pm

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  Hi Joy –

  My suggestion would be put your blog page behind a password. Then someone would need a password delivered from you to access those posts on that page.

  Control Who Can See a Page or Post

  This might be a better fit for what you’re trying to do.

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  joynmsu · Member · May 14, 2019 at 3:10 pm

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  Hi there, thank you for answering, but that didn’t work.

  The blog page is now password protected, but the blog posts themselves are still visible. Example:

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  supernovia · Staff · May 14, 2019 at 9:39 pm

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  @joynmsu, that’s correct — individual links would still not be private.

  I recommend making them private in bulk instead. Here’s how:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#bulk-edit

  You won’t be able to do all 900 at once, but you will be able to work through them in batches of 20-50. Higher than that and you might just get a timeout, but you can experiment with that number using “screen options” at the top of wp-admin.

  This can be nice too, in that if you only want to make certain posts private (ones mentioning a person’s name for example) you can search first, then bulk-edit those posts to make them private.

  I hope this helps!