Password protected post & subscriber notification

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  missusk76 · Member · Apr 16, 2011 at 3:26 am

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  I want to make a password-protected post that only one contact will receive the password to, however I don’t want to do that if all subscribers will receive notification that I have a new post, that they then can’t get in to. Can anyone tell me whether or not they will be notified either by email or RSS?

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  airodyssey · Member · Apr 16, 2011 at 11:55 am

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  Hi. To publish without notifying subscribers, there is a workaround: switch the entire blog to private, publish, then switch back to public:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-publish-without-notifying-subscribers-2?replies=16#post-532910

  If you don’t set the blog to private temporarily, according to this, subscribers will receive notification that a password-protected post was published. But of course, they can’t view the content unless they know the password:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-subscription-password-protection?replies=10#post-508335

  As for RSS, if I interpret the following thread correctly, it’s supposed to behave like email: only advise that there is a post, but that a password is required:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/password-protected-posts-visible-to-everyone?replies=13

  If you need clarification, I suggest you contact staff:

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  missusk76 · Member · Apr 16, 2011 at 12:10 pm

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  Thank you very much, I’ll look through these helpful links and try it out.