Title: "Private" Posts
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# "Private" Posts

 *  Resolved [Ian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isolley/)
 * (@isolley)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-posts-11/)
 * I don’t understand the point of wordpress private pages if you set a post or 
   page to private but any member of the public can access it if they use a the 
   wordpress search bar and hit upon k/words that are in any of the “private” pages
   or posts….

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-posts-11/#post-6245522)
 * Actually, “Private posts are visible only to you (and to other editors or admins
   within your site).” The public cannot see posts and pages marked Private.
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Posts_Add_New_Screen#Descriptions_of_Post_Fields](https://codex.wordpress.org/Posts_Add_New_Screen#Descriptions_of_Post_Fields)
 *  Thread Starter [Ian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isolley/)
 * (@isolley)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-posts-11/#post-6245621)
 * Thanks. Odd… I was logged in, in Firefox (and searching a k/word — the result
   would pull up pages and post that would say Private next to it and which I didnt
   want readers to see) and then checking/using the internal search in Safari (not
   logged in) and seeing pages/posts in Safari that were brought up by searching
   for the exact same k/word (that I knew the page/post contained even though the
   page was set to private). Must have been some kind of caching issue?
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-posts-11/#post-6245623)
 * Possibly, are you running any caching plugins? If so, which?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-posts-11/#post-6245623)
 * Status: resolved

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