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Guidelines on how to create specific posts that protect special content or hide secret information from the public.
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Some posts can be protected against public viewing. Blogs are designed to very easily create such posts that can be used as part of your membership criteria for your subscribers. You can also create password protected and private pages for a simple membership area within your blog; for more information read my blogging e-course ‘Creating protected and private pages’.
First, to create a password protected post, go to the dashboard (via your chosen method gleaned from the e-course ‘Accessing your blog’) and create a new post by clicking on Posts > Add New:
(To find out more about how to create a post, go to my blogging e-course ‘Writing posts’.)
Write the content of your post:
How you set up the special status of your posts is through the Publish menu on the right. There are three states:
The Public menu has an added button because this blog has a separate homepage from the blog post newsroll-like page, therefore there is the option to put a post on the homepage instead.
The password protected post requires a password for access, unlike the private post. Click OK once you’ve selected your choice, and then Publish.
But you will also be able to see this post on the main blog post page, because it is your post:
So I had to go to another computer and access my blog to see what a protected post looks like:
And here you can see that a password is needed to access the post’s contents.
To create a private post, the process is almost the same, except there is no password needed: go back to the dashboard and create a new post with your private content:
Select ‘Private’ in the Publish menu:
Click on ‘View Post’ to see if your post is OK:
but although you can see it on the main blog post newsroll page:
Your readers won’t be able to:
So how do you get your invited audience to read it?
Only Administrators are able to see private posts and pages, and access is through the Edit pages from the Dashboard. Go to the Dashboard > Posts > Edit:
and there you will be able to gain access to the private posts. Bring up the quick links by mousing over the post title, and select ‘View’ to see the content:
And then you will be able to see the private post in all its glory, as private as can be!
If you want to find out more, view my blogging visual e-courses to improve your blog.
© Alice Elliott 2009
