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<p>So, you want to hide one or more of your WordPress posts, so that only people who have the direct link can find them?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the “Private” option for post visibility makes posts visible only to people who are logged in to the site. But the “Publish” option makes a post visible to the entire world. Brilliant Easy Exclude Posts (BEEP) creates a middle ground by allowing you to make a post hidden.</p>
<p>A hidden post, once published, will be available to anyone with the link, but it will be removed from site feeds.</p>
<p>To make a post hidden, select the check box in the “Exclude this post?” box on the post editor page, and update / publish the post.</p>
<p>There are two settings you can change. Visit your Reading settings page to adjust these settings. First, by default, the post pages will be excluded on every page on your site (except places where the link is hard-coded), but you can adjust the settings to allow hidden posts to display links to other hidden posts in sidebars, such as a recent posts widget. The second option allows you to allow search engines to index hidden pages, whereas by default they are hidden.</p>


Brilliant Easy Exclude Posts

Hide posts from public view so users need the direct link (but not a password) to view the hidden posts. Activate this feature with a simple checkbox  …

Micah Wood

<p>The <strong>Hide from Search</strong> plugin allows you to hide individual WordPress pages from search engines and/or WordPress search results.</p>
<h4>Why?</h4>
<p>It isn’t uncommon to have pages on your site that are public, but not intended to be found. Take, for example, a download page where people who have signed up for your email newsletter can download your amazing white paper.  You don’t want just anyone to be able to download your white paper, but the page has to be public because people who sign up for your newsletter aren’t going to be logged into your site.  You can’t have people who perform a search for the title of your whitepaper finding it in search.  The solution?  Download this plugin and hide your download page from WordPress search as well as search engines!</p>
<h4>How?</h4>
<p>Using this plugin is simple:</p>
<ol>
<li>Install the plugin</li>
<li>Activate the plugin</li>
<li>Go to a post you want to hide and check the ‘Hide from search’ checkbox on the bottom right of the screen.</li>
<li>Save your changes</li>
</ol>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Works with custom post types</li>
<li>No settings page, just a simple, easy-to-use checkbox</li>
<li>Clean, well written code that won’t bog down your site</li>
</ul>


Hide from Search

Works well!

Hide individual WordPress pages from search engines and/or WordPress searches, such as confirmation and download pages.

Brilliant Easy Exclude Posts vs Hide from Search