WordPress Ideas » Tag: hidden pages - Recent Posts http://wordpress.org/ideas/tags/hidden-pages WordPress Ideas » Tag: hidden pages - Recent Posts en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 22:57:52 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1 Graham Stoney on ""Hidden" Page Visibility" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/hidden-page-visibility/page/2#post-24277 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 23:00:09 +0000 Graham Stoney 24277@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ The idea here is to have a WordPress core attribute that plugins can use to detect that a page should not be linked to or advertised anywhere, including search engines.

It sounds like you just want the page removed from the human-readable site map. Most site map plugins can already do this. The page is hardly a "deep secret" if search engines can link to it.

]]> hand2mouse on ""Hidden" Page Visibility" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/hidden-page-visibility/page/2#post-24276 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:53:39 +0000 hand2mouse 24276@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ I also want this feature for my full not-just-a-blog site. My footer links to a "Site Map" page, and I'm trying to keep that page clean and useful.

My purpose for a hidden page is to make a blog post's deep details available only through a link to the hidden page. Making the post longer inhibits comments, so I thought I'd off-link.

I don't care if search engines trip over the hidden page, but in terms of site navigation, it's a "deep secret."

]]> Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on ""Hidden" Page Visibility" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/hidden-page-visibility/page/2#post-23695 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 01:48:14 +0000 Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 23695@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ sldon - Post to http://wordpress.org/support/

This forum is for suggestions to improve WP core.

]]> sldon on ""Hidden" Page Visibility" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/hidden-page-visibility#post-23638 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:03:28 +0000 sldon 23638@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ Hi,
Can you please advise me how to find a hidden page in a blog. I mean THE PAGE that sending auto when a subscriber submit their information. And the other pages after the subscriber confirms their email address and etc....
Thanks, Don
(if you cannot reply to this please tell me where I post this question)

]]> Graham Stoney on ""Hidden" Page Visibility" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/hidden-page-visibility#post-21507 Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:59:47 +0000 Graham Stoney 21507@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ I just stumbled upon yet another place where hidden pages can get leaked to visitors: plugins like Smart 404 and 404 Redirected give suggestions to visitors who see 404 errors. I overlooked this initially, which just shows how hard it is to do this properly at present.

I see from Ipstenu's comments that there is some resistance to this being a core feature because many of these leaks are in plugins, but it's only by making it a core feature that plugins will honor it. If hiding pages is important to you, please vote for this idea.

Thanks,
Graham

]]> Graham Stoney on ""Hidden" Page Visibility" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/hidden-page-visibility#post-20111 Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:53:58 +0000 Graham Stoney 20111@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ Well the plugin authors can't honor the setting until it exists in the core; they're even less likely to honor other plugin's settings.

]]> Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on ""Hidden" Page Visibility" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/hidden-page-visibility#post-20109 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:15:21 +0000 Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 20109@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ The majority of your directions are telling people how to make other PLUGINS honor your hidden page, which tells me that's not something Core could control unless all the plugins honored that setting. And as there's no plugin oversight today, that's a hard road.

]]> Graham Stoney on ""Hidden" Page Visibility" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/hidden-page-visibility#post-20096 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:56:29 +0000 Graham Stoney 20096@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ Ipstenu, the point is that preventing the page being linked to from anywhere isn't as easy as you first think. Sure it's possible with extant plugins; I've even written an article about how to do it. But it's not exactly easy to get right. You overlooked local search results, social bookmarking, and social network publishing for instance. All of these plugins could do this automatically if the WordPress core supported the notion of a hidden page.

]]> Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on ""Hidden" Page Visibility" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/hidden-page-visibility#post-20092 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:42:39 +0000 Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 20092@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ If a page isn't linked to, then Google can't find it. So if you have a page and you don't add it to your site's navigation or as a link (except on a result page for 'thank you' or 'sorry') then it should not show up in search results.

Of course you can robot-block it as well.

Jetpack (speaking of FB like plugins) allows you to turn it off per-page.

Yoast WordPress SEO (XML sitemap plugin, among other things) lets you set Meta Robots Index and Follow, AND Include in Sitemap.

So ... this sounds like it can already be done with extant plugins :)

]]> albertf01 on ""Hidden" Page Visibility" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/hidden-page-visibility#post-20091 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:07:35 +0000 albertf01 20091@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ Another practical use is for auto replies like Thank You pages or Sorry pages.

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