How to show a post as private

How to show a post as private
This is a kind of oxymoron, isn’t it? If it’s private – it is NOT shown. Period.

Rather than trying to make a post private, looking in to the “viewlevel plugin” which will allow you to set the user level needed to view a post.

That way, you can set the level to be at Admin level and only those people can see the post. Leaves the rest of your posts uncluttered.

Regards

Actually, I am interested in liljoeyjordison’s request as well. ??

Specificially, I would like to prepend an image to the post title if the post is private AND a different image to the post title if the post is password-protected.

I realize that private posts don’t appear at all to non-admin users, but as admin, I would like to quickly scan through my blog to see which posts are private, protected, or both. Right now, I have to go to dashboard/manage/posts screen to see which ones are private.

I see that the “protected” designation is in wp-includes/template-functions-post.php:

function get_the_title($id = 0) {
$post = &get_post($id);
$title = $post->post_title;
if ( !empty($post->post_password) )
$title = sprintf(__('Protected: %s'), $title);
return $title;
}

And the “private” designation (shown in the dashboard) is in wp-admin/edit.php:

case 'title':
?>
<td><?php the_title() ?>
<?php if ('private' == $post->post_status) _e(' - <strong>Private</strong>'); ?></td>

How do I add the private code to the get_the_title function, plus use images instead of text “Protected” and “Private”?

Thanks for your help! ?? Jennie

thanks tanster, that’s what i meant- i just phrased my question sloppily. That <?php if ('private' == $post->post_status) _e(' - <strong>Private</strong>'); ?> works fine *thumbs up*

for the images thing, replace <strong>Private... with <img src="(directory of theme)/images/private.gif">

There is a tag for the (directory of theme) but i forgot what that was…

Thanks, liljoeyjordison, for the img code! ?? Jennie