Your site’s privacy settings control who can view your site. This guide will show you where to find these settings, whether you want to unpublish your website, restrict access, or make it public.
In this guide
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Ask our AI assistantTo access your site’s privacy options:
- Visit your site’s dashboard.
- Navigate to Settings → Reading.
- Scroll to the Site Visibility section.
- Choose from three privacy options (or, launch your site):
- Coming Soon: Your site is hidden from visitors while you’re working on it. Use this to temporarily unpublish your website. You can share a preview link with select people.
- Public: Your site is visible to everyone.
- Private: Your site is only visible to you and any users you approve. Use this to unpublish your website and restrict access to approved users only.
- Click the “Save Changes” button at the bottom of the page.
To learn how to opt out of sharing your site’s public content with third parties (including AI models), visit the Prevent Third-Party Sharing guide.
Visit the guides below to learn more about each privacy setting:
Display a coming soon page
This guide explains how to show a Coming Soon page and share a preview link while you are working on your site.
Make your website public
This guide will show you how to publish your website and make it visible to search engines.
Make your website private
This guide explains how to make your site private.
Launch your website
In this guide you will learn how to launch your site and what you can do after the site is live.
