WordPress has three different post statuses:
It also has three different visibility options:
When you set a post to Published and Private, WordPress will display its status as Privately Published.
Are there any differences between a post status of Draft vs. Privately Published? They seem to behave very similarly.
I'm a bit late to the party ;), but I just found out that in my theme, there is a difference between a draft and a private post. A draft can be seen in the searchresults when you would search for the post title. When clicking on it, it shows a 404 page. By setting it to private, the draft doesn't show up in the searchresults.
I don't know if this is a wordpress thing, or just my theme. Personally I find it a bit stupid. To me a draft should always be private. That's what a draft is, right?
So, it might be different per theme, but it is possible that both options have a different outcome :).
Draft posts (and Pending Review posts) do have permalinks a.k.a. URLs. The URL is automatically generated the first time you save the post as a Draft or Pending Review. Considering that, I can't tell any real difference between Draft/Pending and Privately Published posts/pages, other than the folders in which they're saved.
It may be a little bit confusing, but there are significant differences:
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