How to protect some articles of a public blog so only particular people can see?
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I have a public blog on wordpress.com and need to mark some of the articles as “can be viewed by contributors” (something like a more relaxed “private article” option). Even better: It would be great if I could select the actual viewers of the article (not of the whole blog!). Is there any way to make this work?
Blog url: http://quipsylabs.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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This is not what I want, as anybody could post the password on the web or give it to a friend. I want to have control about the people that can view the particular article.
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That’s not an option at WP.com, unfortunately. You can Invite users to a private blog but not a private post.
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I think it would be a rather interesting feature to have self-defined user groups, and assign roles to groups instead of single accounts. Maybe someone knows a facility where I could request something like this to be included in a future release of wp.com?
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Wait. If you make a post as Draft, then any authorized Contributors can see it. They just need to be alerted to its existence.
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Not necessarily a paid upgrade.
You could start a new entirely private blog with the same theme as your original blog and use a custom menu in your original blog to link to the private by invitation only blog. You would have control over who could access the private blog: you’d have to invite folks to view it.
They would of course have to sign up for individual wp.com accounts in order to accept your invitations.
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I know the solution with the drafts, but actually I won’t misuse the “draft” state for things that are actually not drafts…
The idea with the additional menu sounds interesting, but for me it more looks like “simply make two blogs” instead of a solution to the actual problem (having one blog that shows more content for particular user groups).
So there is no way to propose new features to wp.com?
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You can propose the idea, and I’ll move this to the Ideas forum, but if you want a solution to use now rather than some unknown, possibly long away time, then I’d advise you work with what is available at present.
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Sounds like a good compromise. For the first time I can live with the solutions that where posted so far, but fur the future I would really beg for this feature. Can you please forward it? :-)
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This thread is now in the idea forum, and that is where staff look at proposed ideas.
Keep in mind that I’m a volunteer, a fellow blogger, with no more influence than you have with TPTB. Mostly the answers you get in these forums are provided by our peers, but staff does check in to assist with problems involving “behind the scenes” help.
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I see (actually I thought the moderator is a WP.com employee). Anyways, thank you so much for all your kind help. :-)
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Yes, the designation “moderator” can be confusing but I do my best to make it clear whenever possible that I am in fact a volunteer.
Perhaps that is another idea: to change “moderator” to “volunteer moderator.”
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I wish you the best for your site.
If you have other questions, feel free to post. I’d say I volunteer because these forums are among the most useful anywhere online thanks to the many folks who do spend time helping new users.
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Thanks for the good wishes. We’re just planning and experimenting so far and going live will need some more weeks. Thanks you for all.
Regards
Markus
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