How To Control The Visibility Of Your Blog Post?

In WordPress, you can easily control the visibility of your posts right from the Add New & Edit Post Screens.

By default, posts in WordPress are set to “Public” visibility, which means they are visible to search engines, social sharing, and anyone who visits your website. Whereas if you want to limit the visibility of a post to specific users, you can the post visibility to “Private.” Private posts are only visible to logged-in users. The third option is password-protected posts, as clear by the name these posts are only visible to users having the password of the post.

Now lets, us see how you can set any post to private or password-protected.

How To Set A Post To Private?

1. In the post editor, simply find the “Publish” meta box on the right side
2. Find the “Visibility” section
3. Click on the “Edit” link next to “Public.”
4. Select “Private” from the options
5. Click the “OK” button to save the changes
6. Update or Publish the post
7. The post is now private

How To Password-Protect Any Post?

1. In the post editor, simply find the “Publish” meta box on the right side
2. Find the “Visibility” section
3. Click on the “Edit” link next to “Public”
4. Select the “Password protected” option
5. Enter the password of your choice
6. Click the “OK” button
7. Update or publish the post
8. The post is now password-protected

You can always preview the post or log out to test the visibility settings from a visitor’s perspective.