hiding a post

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  will1987 · Member · Feb 20, 2010 at 1:03 pm

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  sorry another basic question from the new to wordpress idiot: is there some way to hide a post? i.e. you take it off the screen so you can work on it or decode to trach it or whatever? I see you can do this before you post it, just keep it as a draft, but can you do that with an already posted blog?

  thanks

  Will

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

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Feb 20, 2010 at 1:33 pm

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  Yes, you can mark it as private. In the public module, where it says
  “Visibility: Public Edit”
  choose “edit” and “private” and “ok”

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  will1987 · Member · Feb 22, 2010 at 7:26 pm

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  thanks for the reply. That sounded simple enough but I tried it – I set it to private and then tried opeining the site: the post was still there. I came back to the dashboard and looked at the visibility setting – it was back to public. Any idea what could be going on?

  thanks a lot,
  Will MacBride

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Feb 22, 2010 at 7:56 pm

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  You probably forgot to click Update Post after doing what Tess suggested.

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  will1987 · Member · Feb 23, 2010 at 10:19 pm

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  yup that was it thanks a lot.