Private Posts not showing

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  goodgirl · Member · Jun 15, 2006 at 5:16 am

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  What? That feature is one of my favorites in WordPress! I think most people like being able to see private posts in the blog chronology, but just need to comforted by the fact that only the owners of the blog can see it, and not everyone else.

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  ashan · Member · Jun 15, 2006 at 3:37 pm

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  I agree, goodgirl. Perhaps allow private posts/pages to show on the blog page again, but with an icon/tag indicating their private status (and therefore only visible to the authorised user)?

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  drmike · Member · Jun 15, 2006 at 7:52 pm

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  Please read the thread you post in. I do believe Ryan mentions on what to do if you take issue with this. :)

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  homotopy · Member · Jun 18, 2006 at 7:39 pm

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  Dear Ryan,

  I find this change (that private posts no longer show on the front page when you are logged in) extremely upsetting and it is a radical breach of professionalism for WordPress. I chose WordPress over other blogging sites precisely because of the functionality of private posts. Your recent change effectively eliminates this functionality and for you to force this on users is cruel and means that you were falsely advertising WordPress functionality that you didn’t intend to support or maintain.

  I understand that there could be reasons for some people to want private posts not to appear on the front page, even when they are logged in. This amounts to using the function differently. Though they were complaining about ‘private posts still appearing’ in fact they misunderstood the use of the existing system and really were asking for another function, namely having posts that don’t appear even when logged it. Instead of merely adding that function, you added it and took away the one we use. Why not just have both? That is, each private post could have a little box that you check if you want the post to appear on the front page when logged in, and to leave unchecked if you don’t want the post to appear, or vice versa. Then everyone would be happy and you wouldn’t have to take sides, and you wouldn’t have to receive any irate emails about this.

  Please let me know if you would consider such a modification (or otherwise restoring the function you took away), or when you are working on it, lest I start looking for other blogging options.

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  drmike · Member · Jun 18, 2006 at 7:53 pm

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  homotopy, send feedback. That’s the best method of making a suggestion around here.

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  faatimah1397 · Member · Jun 20, 2006 at 10:34 pm

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  I want to echo what homotopy said…but don’t know how to send feedback. Please advise. :)

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  drmike · Member · Jun 20, 2006 at 11:15 pm

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  You can send Feedback via the Feedback link at the upper right corner of your Dashboard page. If you click the link, a form should open up for you to send in your thoughts.

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  akosistella · Member · Oct 11, 2006 at 5:07 pm

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  ok so this is my problem too. i just want to put a private post to not appear in the homepage, because i want to link to it from a sidebar widget instead (so it’s like a special posting away from my regular posting).

  so what has finally been decided? because I can still see my private post on the homepage, but i dunno if the others can see it. tried to do a private page post as well but it still shows up on my homepage.

  any alternatives or suggestions on how i can accomplish my goal?