# Private Posts and Public in a single Topic

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-posts-and-public-in-a-single-topic/161375
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 19, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-posts-and-public-in-a-single-topic/161375 "2020-08-19T13:19:48Z")
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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-posts-and-public-in-a-single-topic/161375/4 "2020-08-19T13:51:27Z")

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This might help, it came up recently:

> [@Not able to add Whisper Post Using API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-able-to-add-whisper-post-using-api/161145):
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> I am unable to add whisper post Using the API. I am passing Whisper field to true in the given go struct. type Post struct { TopicID int `json:"topic_id"` Raw string `json:"raw"` CreatedAt time.Time `json:"created_at"` PostType int `json:"post_type"` Whisper bool `json:"whisper"` } Both, setting whisper to true or post\_type to 4 doesn’t seem to work for me. Post is being added but it is not a whisper. However I am able to add whisper through the UI which c…

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