Title: Private   public posts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Private public posts

 *  Resolved [a1.paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a1paul/)
 * (@a1paul)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-public-posts/)
 * Hi,
    When some of my users post private posts – something they publish but it
   is only visible to members, their ranking goes up. Is it possible to rank the
   users only based on their public posts?
 * Cheers
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 *  Thread Starter [a1.paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a1paul/)
 * (@a1paul)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-public-posts/#post-3745174)
 * Found my own solution after bit of a trial and error. Had to add this **‘post_status’
   => ‘publish’, **
 *     ```
       //user post count
       	public function get_user_posts_count($user_ID){
       		$args = array('author' => $user_ID, <strong>'post_status' => 'publish', </strong>'posts_per_page' => -1);
       		$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
       		if ($the_query->post_count > 0){
       			return $the_query->post_count;
       		}
       		else{
       			return 0;
       		}
       	}
       ```
   

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## Tags

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

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 * Last reply from: [a1.paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a1paul/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-public-posts/#post-3745174)
 * Status: resolved