# Private comments are showing publicly

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**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [June 2, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-comments-are-showing-publicly/119320 "2019-06-02T18:26:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexwoolfson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alexwoolfson/32/99119_2.png) [@alexwoolfson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alexwoolfson)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-comments-are-showing-publicly/119320/1 "2019-06-02T18:26:45Z")

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Hello,

I thought I had this figured out, but maybe I missed a step?

I have a private category on my Discourse install, just for $5+ patrons:

 ![2019-06-02_11-15-46](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/7/071839a15351d29f3b78b6dadc3436e0e25408ce.png)

 ![2019-06-02_11-16-23](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/6/36ed4648619b320fdcacac79ca23f857b6084e14.png)

[https://community.amwcomics.com/c/sneak-preview-pages](https://community.amwcomics.com/c/sneak-preview-pages)

I thought that WP-Discourse wouldn’t show comments from private categories on my public Wordpress pages.

My plan was to have my patrons be able to comment on advance pages in this locked Preview Pages category, and then I’d move the comic’s Topic to the public Page Updates category once the comic page was also made public. That way my patrons could comment on the page without spoiling things, but they wouldn’t have to input their comments twice for the general readership to be able to read them later.

I thought it had worked in testing too. But now I’m seeing comments from the private category showing up on the linked Wordpress page.

 ![2019-06-02_11-24-30](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/e/1ed389fba535626a017d1cbdc579fd8ef55701f3.png)

> **[The Young Protectors: Double-Cross Chapter One—Page 34 - Young Protectors...](https://youngprotectors.com/typ3/doublecross-ch1-page-34/)**
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> Spooky tries to keep himself from getting spaced in the 34th page of Alex Woolfson's 3rd gay superhero comic The Young Protectors: Double-Cross.

Did I miss a step? Did I misunderstand how WP-Discourse would behave with linked Wordpress pages in private categories?

Please let me know. Thanks!

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