Private Post Commenting Problems

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  jessegmedina · Member · Jan 13, 2011 at 7:08 pm

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  Hi All,

  I’m having trouble identifying the best solution to a problem I’m having. I will soon be recruiting some individuals to preview my posts before they go live on my blog. I don’t want them to be able to make changes to the posts themselves, rather I want them to be able to make comments/suggestions about edits. So far, it seems keeping a post private is the best way to do that and assigning users to my blog (since posts that are pending review won’t allow comments – or will they and I just can’t figure it out?).

  However, I’ve found that when comments are made on these private posts, it feeds to the “Recent Comments” widget which I don’t want.

  Is there another workaround where I can write something on wordpress, keep it private so it doesn’t show up to others, allow users I’ve assigned to the blog to make comments, without their comments feeding to the widget (aside, of course, from altering code which I cannot do)?

  Any help would be much appreciated!

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

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  timethief · Member · Jan 13, 2011 at 8:09 pm

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  Is this the blog in question? http://jessemedina.com
  If it isn’t then please post the complete and clickable URL for the blog to which you are referring starting with http://

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  mariaschmitz · Member · Jan 13, 2011 at 10:33 pm

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  hallo jemnd da der mir das hier mal erklärt. bei space kannte ich mich aus hier bin ich ratlos da ich kein englisch kann , dies hier ist auf englisch….

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  timethief · Member · Jan 13, 2011 at 10:37 pm

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  @mariaschmitz
  Wir haben don anderen Foren in anderen Sprachen. Hier ist der Link für die deutschsprachige German: http://de.forums.wordpress.com/

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  airodyssey · Member · Jan 13, 2011 at 11:58 pm

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  @mariaschmitz: Du kommst von Windows Live Spaces? Willkommen!

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  jessegmedina · Member · Jan 14, 2011 at 6:59 pm

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  @timethief – Yes that’s the blog in question.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 15, 2011 at 12:14 am

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  I’m afraid the only options are to a) make the posts Drafts instead of published and make them Editors (in which case they actually can edit your posts) or b) to disable comments on those posts and tell them to email you their remarks instead.