{"id":92,"date":"2023-04-06T08:40:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T08:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.kialo.dev\/hc\/published-vs-private-discussions\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T05:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T05:24:01","password":"","slug":"published-vs-private-discussions","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/published-vs-private-discussions\/","title":{"rendered":"Published vs Private Discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h_01FC2GRXZRJ7Q408P27QGGADFJ\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About Published and Private Discussions<\/span><\/h2><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you create a discussion, you will have the option of either making it a private or published.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only you and invited users are able to view private discussions. Everyone can view published discussions.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have a private discussion you wish to make visible to all users on the site, you will need to publish it.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Publishing your discussion will not allow users to make edits to your discussion without being granted the appropriate role. By default, other users will have the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/participant-roles-and-permissions\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"97\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Suggester role<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h_01FC2GS26WZM9BFBHG09KYT5C0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to Publish a Discussion<\/span><\/h2><p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#e9f1fb\"><strong>Note:<\/strong> You must have <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/participant-roles-and-permissions\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"97\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Owner or Admin<\/a> permissions to publish a discussion.<\/p><p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#e9f1fb\"><strong>Caution:<\/strong> Once a discussion has been published, it cannot be unpublished or <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/archiving-a-private-discussion\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"89\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">archived<\/a>. If you require a published discussion to be made private, please <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/hc\/en-us\/requests\/new\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">contact support<\/a>.<\/p><p>To publish a discussion:<\/p><ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/navigating-the-discussion-menu\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"105\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Discussion Menu<\/a> and select &lsquo;Discussion Settings&rsquo;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the &lsquo;Invites &amp; Permissions&rsquo; tab.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the &lsquo;Visibility&rsquo; section, click &lsquo;Publish Discussion&rsquo;.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Published and Private DiscussionsHow to Publish a DiscussionNote: You must have Owner or Admin permissions to publish a discussion.Caution: Once a discussion has been published, it cannot be unpublished or archived. If you require a published discussion to be made private, please contact support.To publish a discussion:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_doc_category":0,"wds_primary_doc_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[25],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-92","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-managing-a-discussion"],"acf":{"zendesk_id":"115003878065","zendesk_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115003878065-Published-vs-Private-Discussions"},"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":158,"total_views":"393","reactions":{"happy":"2","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"mk","author_nicename":"mk","author_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/author\/mk\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Managing a Discussion","term_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/sections\/managing-a-discussion\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}