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timethief on "Why are my published pages not displaying?"

timethief — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:42:58 +0000

You're welcome.

centreformedicalhumanities on "Why are my published pages not displaying?"

centreformedicalhumanities — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:42:15 +0000

Ah-ha! It was indeed a problem with the menu. All sorted now. Many thanks for your advice.

timethief on "Why are my published pages not displaying?"

timethief — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:35:27 +0000

There are two approaches you can use. This first one is when you only have Pages.

1. Page Order - Page attributes module order numerically rather than alphabetically.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-attributes/#order
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-attributes/

2. This approach is for those who have created a custom menu and have added pages to that custom menu.
create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
add the pages and sub-pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-pages
order them http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-of-menu-items-and-creating-sub-menus

Troubleshooting – My pages are in the wrong order
If you have a custom menu then you must establish consistency. Check the Pages sub-pages themselves to see if you have established a Parent page and child page “hierarchical structure” in the page attributes module. Remove if required.

Also remove any “order” numbers you have assigned that may conflict with the order you are creating by dropping and dragging. Or simply change them so they are the same order as you establish in the menu. Establish consistency – problem solved

timethief on "Why are my published pages not displaying?"

timethief — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:31:58 +0000

Troubleshooting – My Pages aren’t appearing
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/

They must be public pages – not private.
Public – The page will be visible to everyone.
Protected – The page is protected with a password you set. Only people who have the password can view a protected page.
Private – Pages are only visible to blog Editors and Administrators. Private pages are not visible in Reader, feeds, or in any search. A page can be private without being password protected.

centreformedicalhumanities on "Why are my published pages not displaying?"

centreformedicalhumanities — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:24:57 +0000

Hello. I am trying to edit my pages and for some reason recently published pages are not displaying, and changes I have made to the order of pages are not being registered. They are listed as 'published' on the dashboard and accessible via URL. Can anyone advise?

Many thanks

timethief on "Password protected posts? How about pages?"

timethief — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:59:39 +0000

Yes it's possible. It's virtually the same process to set up. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/

davidg777 on "Password protected posts? How about pages?"

davidg777 — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:53:52 +0000

I am curious as to how exactly does a password protected post work. How about a password protected page if that is even possible? Sorry if this is a stupid question.

auxclass on "How do I access robots.txt?"

auxclass — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:26:24 +0000

Above my pay-grade for the definitive answer - sounds like you only want to use the page for who is who in the zoo for the senior staff - I would think the damage would not be great but timethief and raincoaster are more senior than I on this subject and timethief probably has a link or two that would help - hopefully they will drop by and help

jefhenninger on "How do I access robots.txt?"

jefhenninger — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:10:19 +0000

I want to use the content on http://njdyfslawyers.com/about/ on other blogs. I didn't put this on the new blog I'm making yet, but I have a place holder spot for it.

auxclass on "How do I access robots.txt?"

auxclass — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:08:29 +0000

You can't edit the robots.txt file other than to block search engines for the whole site

What content are you wanting to re-use? Which page / Post is it on your current site?

jefhenninger on "How do I access robots.txt?"

jefhenninger — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:59:24 +0000

But if I do that, no one can see the page.

timethief on "How do I access robots.txt?"

timethief — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:41:11 +0000

You can make duplicate content page visibility settings private. see > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/

jefhenninger on "How do I access robots.txt?"

jefhenninger — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:34:45 +0000

I would like to use the same content for a page across several of my blogs but I don't want to get a duplicate content penalty by Google. Thus, I want to add these pages to robots.txt but I can't see how to access that. I looked under settings but I don't see anything that says privacy like other posts have indicated.
thanks

timethief on "Making my pages visible on my blog"

timethief — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:21:34 +0000

You're welcome and best wishes with your blog.

whatwouldyendo on "Making my pages visible on my blog"

whatwouldyendo — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:12:59 +0000

that did it! thanks so much!

timethief on "Making my pages visible on my blog"

timethief — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:59:47 +0000

Have you created a custom menu? http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ Have you added them to it? http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-pages

whatwouldyendo on "Making my pages visible on my blog"

whatwouldyendo — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:56:14 +0000

they are marked as public.

timethief on "Making my pages visible on my blog"

timethief — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:54:53 +0000

timethief on "Making my pages visible on my blog"

timethief — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:52:56 +0000

Troubleshooting – My Pages aren’t appearing
They must be public pages – not private.
Public – The page will be visible to everyone.
Protected – The page is protected with a password you set. Only people who have the password can view a protected page.
Private – Pages are only visible to blog Editors and Administrators. Private pages are not visible in Reader, feeds, or in any search. A page can be private without being password protected.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

raincoaster on "Making my pages visible on my blog"

raincoaster — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:27:21 +0000

Use the Pages widget, or switch to a theme with a tabbed header, which automatically lists pages.

whatwouldyendo on "Making my pages visible on my blog"

whatwouldyendo — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:22:10 +0000

Hi, I am having trouble making my "about" page visible on my site. When i go into edit this page, I have it clicked as published and public, but when you visit my blog, it is nowhere to be found. The only way to access it is to type into the web browser: whatwouldyendo.wordpress.com/about, which is too many steps. Please help and thanks.

justjennifer on "Hide private pages from menu unless loffed in?"

justjennifer — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:06:46 +0000

You're welcome and thanks for teaching me something I didn't know before!

transadmin on "Hide private pages from menu unless loffed in?"

transadmin — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:02:05 +0000

That's the conclusion I reached as well :( I was just hoping someone would point out a feature I'd missed.

Thanks for the time you've taken on this - much appreciated.

justjennifer on "Hide private pages from menu unless loffed in?"

justjennifer — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:38:00 +0000

My conclusion following my above comment is that it is not possible to have a Page in the NavBar/Menu that is only visible to logged in users.

The best you can do is what you have already done, which is to include the Page in the Navbar and then require a password to enter it.

Alternately, don't put it in the NavBar/Menu at all and only give the address out to the project workers to bookmark. I would still password protect the Page.

justjennifer on "Hide private pages from menu unless loffed in?"

justjennifer — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:24:19 +0000

Apparently using a Custom Menu overrides the Page visibility settings. (!)

For the sake of this experiment, would you please remove any Custom Menu you may have set up. You don't have to delete the menu, just remove it from being the Primary Menu in the "Theme Locations" Module of the Custom Menu Dashboard.

transadmin on "Hide private pages from menu unless loffed in?"

transadmin — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:00:51 +0000

Sorry about hiding that page. If you look at the page now there is a menu item 'private' that leads to a private page. (so to you it looks broken)

I want to hide that menu item from people who are not logged into the site.

justjennifer on "Hide private pages from menu unless loffed in?"

justjennifer — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:41:34 +0000

Technically, I shouldn't be able to see that Page at all if you have published it as "Private", logged in or not. Only Admins and Editors of your site should be able to see that page.

Please check the Publish module for that Page to make sure that the visibility is set to "Private". If not, make the change and update the Page.

What I do get when I click on "Project Area" is a place to enter a password, which to me means it hasn't been published as "Private".

transadmin on "Hide private pages from menu unless loffed in?"

transadmin — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:05:18 +0000

Thanks for the replies.

@raincoaster.
Makes sense - but it's not what i'm looking for.

@justjennifer
There's only one private page at the moment: >> Project Area >> "Stuff for your eyes only" :)

If I log in and go there, there's a page visible. If *you* go to that menu item you get a "404 not found." I want to hide that menu item from people, like you, who are not logged in.

Having the private pages is good - but I don't want users to have to remember the URL - I'd like it to appear on a menu somewhere.

justjennifer on "Hide private pages from menu unless loffed in?"

justjennifer — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:52:20 +0000

Pages or Posts published as "Private" should only appear to logged in Admins and Editors and not to anyone else, logged in or not.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/

Which of your Private pages are still visible when logged out?

raincoaster on "Hide private pages from menu unless loffed in?"

raincoaster — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:17:27 +0000

You can easily use a Custom Menu to list only the Pages you want, but I warn you this works for Pages, not for Posts, all of which show up on the main blog page. The only way to keep your Posts private is to ONLY categorize them "Private" with no other tags or categories and NOT to include a link to the main blog page on your Custom Menu. Does that make sense?