Title: Plugin published WP post set to “private”
Last modified: September 28, 2024

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# Plugin published WP post set to “private”

 *  [Mikal Jakubal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikal-jakubal/)
 * (@mikal-jakubal)
 * [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-published-wp-post-set-to-private/)
 * I set up AP last year, but just now saw that the plugin had published to my blog’s
   federated Mastodon account a post-in-progress that I had set to “private.” My
   standard post-writing workflow is to set up the page in WP, create the page title,
   set visibility to “private” and then continue on to edit in Elementor.
 * But that post was FULLY VISIBLE on the Mastodon account for the last couple weeks
   I’ve been working on it. Now, there was nothing damaging, per se, just a mass
   of all my notes, streams of consciousness, late-night thoughts, and material 
   copy/pasted from a word processor in random order in text blocks to be organized
   later. Still, I don’t want to have the whole internet or even the 11 people who
   followed my blog shuffling through all the notes and random papers on my desk
   either. 
   I’ve since set the post to “password protected” status and now only 
   the header image from the Elementor layout is shown on the Mastodon account, 
   which I don’t really want to draw any more attention to, but can send a link 
   privately if you want.
 * Separate but related: In going through the settings, I see I’d set the plugin
   to upload images, but I didn’t realize that meant it would be uploading every
   image as I uploaded it to the post in question — even though the post was set
   to “private.” 
   So now I want to delete the whole mess, but from reading forums
   here and elsewhere, it seems that’s not possible yet. I did try deleting as much
   info as I could, but the bio and name, etc. on the account still shows up on 
   the Mastodon profile page. Maybe it just hasn’t propagated yet. It also shows
   followers I deleted, but doesn’t show my own Mastodon account that I kept as 
   a follower to monitor it. I’m deactivating the plugin and will see what happens
   in a day or two.So, unless you’ve come up with a way to make the whole account
   go away, I guess I only want to make you aware that it published a “private” 
   post, including images.In the meantime, I love the idea of federating blogs, 
   but this has a very, very long way to go before it’s functional for anyone but
   a very experienced developer. It was a nice try and in the long run, no real 
   damage done. I’ll check back in a year or two.

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 *  Thread Starter [Mikal Jakubal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikal-jakubal/)
 * (@mikal-jakubal)
 * [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-published-wp-post-set-to-private/#post-18043023)
 * I’m looking into the possibility that this might not be the AP plugin after all,
   that it might be some bug in WP that just happened to show up in the federated
   account via AP.
 *  Plugin Author [Matthias Pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/)
 * (@pfefferle)
 * [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-published-wp-post-set-to-private/#post-18043172)
 * Hey [@mikal-jakubal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikal-jakubal/) 👋
 * I am so sorry to hear about that!
 * Do you maybe use some kind of scheduling or similar plugin? we had a very similar
   issue some month ago, because of a plugin that misused the visibility of a post
   and set it to “public” before setting it to private again!?!
 * Normally you have to delete the images, to get them deleted from the fediverse,
   but that is not very productive in your case, so I would recommend to use the
   CLI for that. The plugin comes with a WordPress CLI extension, that has a possibility
   to delete content from the fediverse but not locally.
 * How long do you use the plugin? We have disabled the Attachment setting by default,
   so I would assume that the description is still not very good and you enabled
   it by accident? If so, could you give us some feedback what we could improve 
   in the wording?

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 * Last reply from: [Matthias Pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/)
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