Private post showing up in recent posts
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Marking a post “Private” seems to be a bit misleading if it still shows up in “recent posts” and in your RSS feed. Do Posts or Pages marked “Private” also then show up in Search Engine results if you’ve marked your blog to be crawled? I would assume yes.
So the only way to block people or a crawler from seeing a Post/Page would be by password protecting it?
This is timely for me and I hope it gets resolved soon.
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I hadn’t noticed before because I don’t use private posts, I just tried it out on my test blog. But now I just noticed that the private post isn’t visible in the recent posts widget using the Cutline theme, but it is on the Rounded theme. And the link is clickable on Rounded as well. What would that be, a fault with the theme?
http://cjtestblog.wordpress.com/
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Was just strolling through the FAQs and had a thought. What if you have a private page and use the Pages Widget in your blog sidebar? Will a private Page show up there?
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Make a test one and find out. And definitely let us know what template you use, since it seems to be template dependent.
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@raincoaster-I’m presently using Cutline and I’ll definitely give it a try as soon as I can. (Kof-peeking in from work) Meantime, could someone answer my question whether password protecting a post blocks it being crawled by search engines. Thanks for the help.
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You will still show hits, but those hits will be from people coming to the password and bouncing off. It will not reflect people actually reading the post. I’ve tested that.
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I just checked and now the themes seem to be normal again; Rounded and Contempt aren’t showing the private posts anymore, nor are any others I’m trying. This is getting weird… what do you think, Rain, should I email support or see if it happens again?
@justjennifer – Making a private page shouldn’t be a problem; I tried it earlier and it didn’t show up in the navbar or the pages widget. Just to be sure, I set it to a page-parent as well. It’s a workaround, but it seemed to work. I don’t think search engines should be able to crawl it. It should be like changing your blog privacy for an individual page.
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