The chances are that it spent a brief moment of it's life as published ... I had that happen to me yesterday, and I even had a comment left whilst I was changing it back over to private ... then I decided to just move it to my members only blog as it can't happen there ;)

See if this plugin is of any use to you ( [url=http://waffleson.co.uk/2008/12/protect-your-blogs]Protect your blogs[/url] )

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Ok thanks for the tip off - will check to see if it was published momentarily.

I followed the link you gave through to your site and then onto try and find the plugin but couldn't at first glance - would you give me the name I am to look for please. It does look like a good double-check.

If you download [url=http://b2evo.astonishme.co.uk/plugins.php?s=am_bopit]BOPIT[/url] ( crappy lil disc icon at top right ), install it and then meander over to admin > tools > bopit you should see a list of all supported plugins and widgets. Click the download icon next to .... urm, whatever I called it, probably summat cunning like "AM Protected Blogs - Version 1.0" ... cos I'm imaginative like that :P

It may seem a round about way but it allows me to not worry about constantly updating zip links in my blog posts .... besides, BOPIT is a pretty cool plugin to run anyway ;)

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Ok, so have downloaded BOPIT & Bloglist.

Written 'am:protected' into the advanced tab > notes.

But what else do I have to check to make sure that it is only the group of people that are members to this blog, as when I logged out of admin, I could still see the blog.

It also didn't change the 'published' posts to 'protected' automatically.

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whatever I called it, probably summat cunning like "AM Protected Blogs - Version 1.0" ... cos I'm imaginative like that :P

;)

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Ok, so getting there. Thanks for bearing with me.

[I don't think AM Protected Blogs was on the AM site, but have it now through BOPIT tab.]

Post status hasn't visually changed though when looking at the full post list.

Only if I edit each post and save again (without changing a thing) does it then change the post to 'protected'.

Also when I logged out as admin I got redirected to the login screen - which is what you said would happen BUT it didn't take me to the BLOG_BASE_URL (blog settings) when I logged in again via the login screen, it took me to the 'default blog to list' (global settings) instead.

The plugins only been released / posted on my site, mainly because I haven't gotten round to doing a full write up for Am :P

It won't retroactively update your post statuses, it just watches future ones, as you noticed, just editing and saving a post is enough.

I probably missed out a "$redirect_to" when you're sent to the login screen ... having said that, default_blog_to_display is probably a more logical answer.

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I would think that if you were wanting to log in to a particular blog then that is the blog that you'd want to get ???? (blog_base_url)

It doesn't make any sense to me to be taken to another blog (default_blog_to_display) unless of course I am not using that right?!

Blonde moment :D

The good news is, now that you're running BOPIT you'll know when I update the plugin ;)

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