Comments on: Make certain blog posts only visible to your friends

By: Wicklow Jane

Wicklow Jane — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:06:18 +0000

There is good quality writing on here, which is not something I can say about all websites. Thanks alot.

By: Robert Mahfoud

Robert Mahfoud — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:36:45 +0000

I just wrote this plugin that may be another alternative to this situation. It essentially allows you to flag a post as “low profile”, and hide it from the homepage and/or from your RSS feed.
You can download it from here: http://robertmahfoud.konceptus.net/posts/wp-low-profiler/
Once a post is “low profile” you could send the permalink out to your friends so they can see it without having to log-in.

Please let me know if you found it useful.

By: Steve Smith

Steve Smith — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:21:54 +0000

Danny, I guess that’s something completely different from the two plugins used here, as it’s changing a part of WordPress’s default behaviour rather than that of the plugins.

Have a look at the conversation at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172732 for some ideas!

By: Danny

Danny — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:51:11 +0000

This is a good plugin.

My only think I found wrong with it, is that I would like to have the option to force certain user levels to have their posts published as private entries.

Kind of a weird request, I know Otherwise, great job!

By: You you consider Wordpress a poor mans choice of membership?

You you consider Wordpress a poor mans choice of membership? — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:20:15 +0000

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By: Armen Shirvanian

Armen Shirvanian — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:48:05 +0000

This is a thorough description of the methods taken to keep certain posts visible to individuals who are logged in. I would add that one can also create WordPress pages, which can be nested within eachother, and not link to them from the site’s root page. This could allow the URLs to be released to certain individuals to show them a certain page. I am not sure as of yet as to how to keep these hidden pages from being hidden to Google, for example, but I would assume that there would be a way.