Manage Private Posts

You could perhaps:

1) Create the category for your Private posts, e.g. “Private”

2) Exclude the “Private” category from your main Loop

3) Output the “Private” category using a custom template file, e.g. category-private.php

4) Wrap the Loop in category-private.php in an if ( is_user_logged_in() ) conditional

(This assumes, of course, that you are the only user of your site. You will need to modify if you have additional users.)

EDITED TO ADD:

5) Wrap the Loop in single.php in an `if ( is_user_logged_in() || ! is_category( ‘private’ ) ) conditional.

6) Add an exclude=#' argument, where#is the Category ID of the "Private" Category, to any call towp_list_categories()`.