I think my question is exactly the same as the original question by Vanallemarktenthuis above, but I still don't see where that is answered. I think I do understand Private, but that's not what I want either.

Where my list of Pages appears on my home page, if there are child pages they also appear on that index, and if there are many child pages the home page becomes too cluttered (as noted elsewhere in this forum).

So if I have an Animals page listed in the home page list of pages, I don't want the Frogs page
to be listed on the home page (only on the Animals page).

So I thought making the Frogs page to be "hidden" sounded right -- because I would be able to put a workable link to the Frogs page on the Animals page. (I have no interest in hiding the Frogs from a search.)

Sorry to be clueless, but I still haven't been able to see out how to do it. Help please!

Thanks for thinking with me. I didn't want backdating, because I don't want the post to appear in my archive list in the sidebar. I thought about the hidden page as an option, but I wanted to know if there was also something like a hidden *post*; that was my initial question (and I think I got my answer: apparently it's no :)). Hadn't thought about anchor tags though, that sounds like a good way too. I never used them before, so I'll try them out. Otherwise I'll stay with the hidden page idea. Thanks for your time and answer.

As for your question - your example of the media library is incorrect. Any photo that you have in your media library can be located by search engines because the photo has an exact url. That is the reason you can link to it. An unpublished page or post does not have an address so there is no way to link to it.

I can think of a couple of ways to handle what you want to do, none of them solving your problem. You could backdate a post with the info, put the info in a page that is hidden from the pages widget or use anchor tags within a post with the relevant text in there. Any of those things will cause the text, once published, to be available.

And thanks for summoning people not to "spend time" on my question. Here's my blog address: http://vanallemarktenthuis.wordpress.com/ - since you think that might be of help.

And before anyone spends any more time on this, please give us a link to your blog here at wordpress.com so that we can be sure we're giving you the best advice.

The link follows to an explanation of something. For example if I write "Then he saw

a frog

But in this particular case I want a word linked to a piece of text that I wrote as a diary years ago - text that I don't want to be found anywhere else on my blog or in my archive, because if you read it exclusively, it makes no sense. Only linked from the original post it's useful.

I could make a word document and put it on archive.com, but I prefer to keep it within my WordPress account like, as I said, a post or a page (a page can be found to, even if it's hidden, when you search the blog for certain words).

I'm not sure what else you're asking, but if you want one person to see a post others can't see, consider making a page instead. Pages are easy to hide, and you can link them to people who aren't logged in.

I want to make the post only visible when people click on a link, I don't want it published. It's just a few lines of information; can I use a post for that purpose, or do I have to make a page for it? (I know I can 'hide' pages when I post them in hierarchy - I was wondering if I can do the same with a post. And if so: How?)

Thanks in advance!