if i password protect a posting, do invites still get sent to followers
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I’d like to let a couple of people review a draft I am about to publish it. I know I could publish it with a password, but I also know that when I publish a blog there is a bunch of automatic things happen, like invitations to my followers, a tweet on twitter, a post on facebook…
So what I need to know is two things:
1. Do all those automatic things happen if I publish with a password? If so, there will be a lot of disappointed followers who wont get to see my blog, and I’ll miss a lot of hits
2. If the automatic things DON’T happen, then later when I make the blog public, will the chain of automatic events happen then?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Do all those automatic things happen if I publish with a password? If so, there will be a lot of disappointed followers who wont get to see my blog, and I’ll miss a lot of hits
Publicize will not fire with a Password Protected post. Email notifications will get sent out though. The content will read:
This post is password protected. You must visit the website and enter the password to continue reading.
If the automatic things DON’T happen, then later when I make the blog public, will the chain of automatic events happen then?
No – I’m afraid Publicize will not run when you change the status of a post.
Rather than publishing the post as password protected, I think a better option would be to use the Writing Helper Request Feedback feature discussed here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/writing-helper/request-feedback/
That way, you can request feedback without publishing the post. Would that work?
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Jeremy, Thanks so much for getting back to me. The Writing Helper Request Feedback feature sounds EXACTLY like what I need.
But I have no idea how to activate it! This post (https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/writing-made-easy-writing-helper/) seems to suggest that
It’s a new box that appears underneath the edit box on the Add a Post Screen
. As if my magic!
However, what I see when I start a new blog is this:
https://mega.co.nz/#!rIA0UKIJ!1WSmlIY7woCjvwia3B33Q2G0KZ006zvZ8YhK53BTWdI
No Writing Helper to be seen! No Request Feedback option for me.
I’ve also gone to “Customize > Widgets” but cannot find either “Writing Helper” or “request feedback” as an addable widget! (See https://mega.co.nz/#!ORYi2YhZ!4tPVKlEMUAUjIuRUIj1t19Y01_vVraU6OGy6nJ493G4)
So are you able to tell me how to make the Writing Helper appear?. I’d be grateful if you could!
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Addendum: This https://en.support.wordpress.com/writing-helper/ suggests that there should be a “Screen Options” menu that
can be found in the upper right corner of your Post Edit page.
But as my screen dump (https://mega.co.nz/#!rIA0UKIJ!1WSmlIY7woCjvwia3B33Q2G0KZ006zvZ8YhK53BTWdI) shows, there is no “Screen Options” in the upper right corner of my Post Edit page.
Thanks:
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OK – FOund it. Boy that was hard! I didn’t realise that I had to go back to the OLD wordpress editing method!
https://mega.co.nz/#!WRwAmZzC!2Ltw5vpXuQR6ns6yD_t9NzSBiN3IFTccrbY2ZCPFlG8So I should update my http://rednectar.net/2014/08/17/wordpress-changed-their-editor-and-it-sucks/ post and add another “suck” reason!
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I didn’t realise that I had to go back to the OLD wordpress editing method!
Sorry for not clarifying! Yes – you would need to edit the post in wp-admin to see the Writing Helper. Let me know if you need anything else!
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