# Way to make part of the post visible to author and staff only?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/way-to-make-part-of-the-post-visible-to-author-and-staff-only/120539>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [June 16, 2019, 11:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/way-to-make-part-of-the-post-visible-to-author-and-staff-only/120539 "2019-06-16T23:09:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/way-to-make-part-of-the-post-visible-to-author-and-staff-only/120539/17 "2025-03-15T18:45:56Z")

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I suppose you’re the only one to have asked that here yet 🙂

If you have a budget (perhaps your community can crowdfund?), you can ask for someone to develop the feature in #Marketplace.

A funny but not so functional alternative would be wrapping the content with `<rp> </rp>`.  
[It doesn’t mean roleplay](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/rp) 😛

Two issues:

1. the content can be viewed in the HTML code or the raw / json view of a post, and is also returned by the search feature, or even by quoting the post.

1. `<rp>` is an inline element, so block type elements inside will close the tag before the block element, which means, to put it simple, that the content should contain only regular text with single like breaks (2 line breaks = paragraph = block element).

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