Change icon if Private

As the gif is a background image assigned through css to the post title’s <h2> tag, you’ll have to attack this in two places.

1. Modify your theme’s style.css, changing h2.pen to h2.pen1, and adding a new class declaration:

h2.pen2 {
margin-bottom: 1px;
margin-left: 0px;
padding: 6px 2px 2px 24px;
background: url(images/pen2.gif) no-repeat 0px 4px;
}

2. At the start of The Loop in your theme’s template(s), you’ll want to insert this bit of PHP:

<?php
if('private' == $post->post_status) {
$pen = 'pen2';
} else {
$pen = 'pen1';
} ?>

You also need to alter the opening <h2> tag, so it’s:

<h2 class="<?php echo $pen; ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

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