Making One Image Public View?
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While I am learning WordPress, I have my website set as Private. Is there any way for me to make a single image or page public view without making the whole website public?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You can make every post and page Private (it’s on the Edit Page settings, where Publish is, or you can use the Bulk Editor to set them all to private) except the single one you want to show. Then you and only you can see all the rest. It’s tricky though. It’s the kind of thing that is simple, but you have to be absolutely thorough otherwise you’ll screw up.
Me, personally, after ten years of blogging I know that nobody really minds a bit of chaos on a brand new blog; nobody is reading it yet anyway. I’d just make it public and tinker away. The #1 problem most people have when they start is they want to lock everything down for weeks till the periods are perfectly circular and they’ve gone through 59 font options. Nobody goes to a blog for the design; take that time and use it to put up good content.
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I see the privacy settings for pages. But I don’t see any privacy setting for Media files. So those pages are always public?
If I want to just upload a bunch of resource images that will be used across many different pages, I have to do this by making each image file a Media page? That would be really cumbersome so I am thinking there must be some way to just bulk load a bunch of JPG files without implicitly constructing an HTML file for each image?
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If people know the URL of the image, they can see the image. But if you don’t embed the image in a post or page, or the post or page you embed it in is private, how can they figure out the URL?
You can upload them all into the media library and just name them memorably so later you can do a search for them and find them easily to insert into whatever page or post you need.
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First, can you confirm that every image I upload will have a separate display page automatically created for it? That’s really cumbersome at minimum. If I have 50 support images for a website, having to deal with a list of 50 display pages in the media library is just strange. But I just want to confirm that is the way it works, and that there is not some other way to expose some utility images.
Second, I guess the way they will know the page is just by iterating through all the possible ?attachment_id arguments on a generic URL.
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