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title: Publishing Your Study
description: "Nothing is shown to visitors until the study is marked **Public** on the Study screen. The public views are ordinary WordPress pages carrying shortcodes, so they can be retitled, restyled and rearranged like any other page. ## The generated pages…"
url: "https://www.ancestorpress.com/docs/ops-publishing/"
updated: "2026-09-11"
category: "AncestorPress One-Place Studies"
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# Publishing Your Study

Nothing is shown to visitors until the study is marked **Public** on the Study screen. The public views are ordinary WordPress pages carrying shortcodes, so they can be retitled, restyled and rearranged like any other page.

## The generated pages

The Study screen creates these as drafts: the **study profile** (scope, timeframe, description and the record inventory), the **occurrence index**, **Records** by type, **Surnames**, **Places**, **Households** and **Contact the study**. Publish the ones you want.

## The shortcodes

- `[apopst_study]` - the study profile with the auto-generated record inventory.
- `[apopst_occurrences]` - the searchable, paginated occurrence index: filter by name, record type, year range and place.
- `[apopst_record_types index_url="..."]` - each record type with its record sets and a count, linking into the index.
- `[apopst_surnames index_url="..."]` - the surname index with spelling groups.
- `[apopst_places]` - the place hierarchy; each place opens its own page. `[apopst_place id="N"]` embeds one place's page anywhere.
- `[apopst_household]` - census record sets, households and members; `set` and `ref` attributes pin one household.
- `[apopst_map]` - an embedded map of the studied place from OpenStreetMap, uMap, Google My Maps or the National Library of Scotland historic mapping, once you have configured one.
- `[apopst_contact]` - a contact form that emails the study contact address without revealing it. It renders only when a contact address is set on the Study screen, and carries anti-spam checks and a per-visitor rate limit.

## Every public page is privacy-filtered

Counts, listings, the surname index and the household views all draw from the same privacy-filtered population - see "Living-Person Privacy". The pages cannot disagree about who is shown.