There Should Be Another Post Visibility Option
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I do personally think that one very important post visibility option is missing at wordpress.com
According to: https://wordpress.com/support/post-and-page-visibility/
we have the following options…Public – The post will be visible to everyone.
Private – The post will be visible only to blog Editors and Administrators. Private posts are not visible in the Reader, feeds, or in any search. A post can be private without being password protected.
Password Protected – The post will be protected with a password you choose. Followers will still receive a notification about this new post, but only those with the password can view it.
But what if you’re generally open to share certain posts with the logged in wordpress.com community without inviting them or giving them any kind of user roles?
In other words, what is if you just want to share your post with the whole community but not with non-logged in users while preventing that search engines can index or crawl the post (noindex / nofollow)? Further, there should also be an option to prevent that search engines can index certain photos, those you don’t want to get indexed within those posts.
Here is an example of why I think this would be kinda cool. My blog is almost a decade old and during that time I shared a lot of my photography while staying very private on my own (never uploaded selfies, street names or anything that could tell people who I am). But the thing is, over the years I got some friends here in the community and loyal readers who have their own blogs, which I gladly visit too. I’d really like to share some private photos of myself with them, to give them an impression of who I am. What I, however, wouldn’t like, is if those pictures or stories would get picked up by Google or any other search engine.
So, I pondered of this for a very long time and I think there is absolutely no option on wordpress.com to do what I want to do without setting up a new blog that is private, where I have to invite those users. It simply can’t be done on the own site either, without marking those posts as private and giving certain users some roles that would then expose my site stats (big no no).
What is missing here on wordpress is either any of those two options…
– The ability to make posts only visible to logged-in users, with photos non-indexable as well.
– A new user role (or a change to the Viewer role) that allows an invited users to read and comment on a private post, without giving him/her the rights to access the site stats.
Please take my feedback WordPress Team! I’d also be happy to learn why this idea never came up?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
Thank you for this feedback and I will report this internally.
Have you considered doing a members-only site and link it to your main site? Our support page provides step by step instructions on how to set the site up:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/tutorials/build-a-membership-website-tutorial/
Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!
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Wow, dude, that’s a pretty powerful workaround I’ve never heard about! I know about subdomains but never knew we could create them on wordpress.com too. So, this seems like a real solution here!
Just a couple of new questions appear:
1. Will I be able to use my purchased theme on the subdomain?
2. What happens if I reblog content from private site B (sub) to public site A (main)? How will the reblogged content appear for non-members of the subdomain, and members of the subdomain? Members will see the reblogged content, non-members not?
3. Is there a way of making subdomain B show the original content of main site A except that site B also shows my private member content?
4. Is there a limit to how many subdomains we can add? Because with this workaround a couple of extra ideas might pop up lol :)
No matter if it works like in my questions or not, you gave me the best workaround here I ever heard of!! It looks like a real solution for my problem even if site B can’t show site A original content. Because at least I can now have a private section under the umbrella of my real domain and that is already perfect!
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One more question…
5. Trying to add a subdomain like in the guides, it appears as if I have to pay an additional €13 per year? Subdomains aren’t free even if I own the main domain already?
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1. Will I be able to use my purchased theme on the subdomain?
All WordPress.com upgrades are bought per-site only, so if you wanted to use the Beacon theme on the private site as well, you’d need to buy it separately for that site.
2. What happens if I reblog content from private site B (sub) to public site A (main)? How will the reblogged content appear for non-members of the subdomain, and members of the subdomain? Members will see the reblogged content, non-members not?
Reblogging is not available on private sites, nor are most sharing buttons – on a private site you can only add the “Email” and “Print” sharing buttons.
3. Is there a way of making subdomain B show the original content of main site A except that site B also shows my private member content?
You can embed one site’s RSS feed inside another site using the RSS widget:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-widget/
Or inside a post/page on the private site using the RSS shortcode:
https://wordpress.com/support/rss-shortcode/
But if you want the private site to actually mirror the content available on the public one, you’d need to post the content manually to both sites.
4. Is there a limit to how many subdomains we can add? Because with this workaround a couple of extra ideas might pop up lol :)
You can add as many free WordPress.com sites in your account as you want.
5. Trying to add a subdomain like in the guides, it appears as if I have to pay an additional €13 per year? Subdomains aren’t free even if I own the main domain already?
In my answers above I’ve been assuming by “subdomain” you refer to the free example.wordpress.com address.
If you mean an actual subdomain on your domain, diaryofdennis.com, e.g. example.diaryofdennis.com, you can create as many such subdomains as you want as well, but for each site where you want to use a subdomain like that you’d need the paid domain mapping upgrade included in our plans.
I see you’ve created a separate thread on the subdomain topic, so I’ll reply in more detail there. https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/domain-mapping-not-free-for-excisting-domain-purchased-through-wp-com/
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