Unlisted posts?

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    windyweather · Member ·

    Did I miss this feature? I need to make posts that don’t appear on the front page. These are usually support info or things like additional info for a craigslist posting. I don’t mind if they can be found by searching or calendar etc. And they are public posts. I do this now by back dating the posts by 1 year. But this is clunky. Back in the day I used an addon that had a checkbox to keep off the front page, but I’d like to have this feature now in the real wordpress.com without any addons.

    Did I miss it?

    Thanks.

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  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Do you mean you want certain posts to not appear on the site’s front page? If so, that’s not possible. The front page/posts page always displays all posts published on a site, with the most recent first. This is at the core of how the WordPress software works, and a plugin is the only way to change that.

    Alternatively, you can set your site’s front page to a static page instead. Then you can use the Blog Posts block to only show posts from the categories you select on that page.

    Blog Posts Block

  • Unknown's avatar
    windyweather · Member ·

    Thanks. I have a post pinned to the front page and want to show recent posts there. So, with no way to make a post public but unlisted, I guess I’ll just continue to back-date these posts by a year before I share them out in the world.

    Looks like a missing feature to me. Maybe another way to add that feature would be to add a feature to categories like “Unlisted”, which if that category appears for a post would keep it off the blog. But again, personally I’d like these posts to be searchable, appear in calendar and if you clicked a category to have them appear in that list. Anyway, Maybe nobody else needs this.

    Yep. I used to run my own “wordpress.org” site years ago. But after it was hacked twice between updates, I moved here to wordpress.com and have loved the experience ever since. Gotta love not worrying about backups and malware.

    Thanks.

  • staff-doublebassd · Staff ·

    Yeah, there are definitely ways that you can do this with a plugin, but as @kokkieh mentioned, it would require a Business Plan. But, here is an article on how to add the feature if you ever choose to upgrade:

    https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-hide-a-post-from-home-page-in-wordpress/

    Thanks,

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