Title: Private Posts in 2.o
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Private Posts in 2.o

 *  [LisaLynne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lisalynne/)
 * (@lisalynne)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-posts-in-2o/)
 * I upgraded from 1.5 (I think) to 2.0. I don’t have a problem with the install
   per se, but on my front page, I had a post marked private, and before, it didn’t
   show up at all. After the upgrade – same theme, plugins, everything – it showed
   up for all and sundry to see. Currently I have it password protected so that 
   no one can read it, but it’s still marked private.
 * Can anyone tell me why I might be having this problem, and what I can to to rectify
   it? I hate password protecting posts, because odds are later down the road I’ll
   forget the password.
 * Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

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 *  [nickel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickel/)
 * (@nickel)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-posts-in-2o/#post-305420)
 * The opposite happened to me — two or three posts that were public got switched
   to private after switching to WP2. I think, but am not sure, that this happened
   when I edited them to change their categories. I am confident that I did not 
   mark them as private myself.
 *  [robfay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robfay/)
 * (@robfay)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-posts-in-2o/#post-305502)
 * I’ve just created a wordpress instance on the wordpress.com hosted site. I did
   it as a way to better enable communication with my team at work.
 * Problem is, some of the communications will likely be proprietary and I’d rather
   than a private post feature that only lets registered users (my team) view these
   private communications. Right now a private post is restricted to the person 
   who created it – seems silly to me.
 * Any ideas?
 *  [robfay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robfay/)
 * (@robfay)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-posts-in-2o/#post-305503)
 * One other thing: I’ve noticed that password-protecting posts does not hide them
   from the public on the wordpress.com hosted instance! Other than prefacing the
   post as “Protected,” the message can still be read by an unregistered user!

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## Tags

 * [private](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/private/)
 * [upgrade](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrade/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-posts-in-2o/#post-305503)
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