Accidentally live, no privacy option?

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  herleyberley · Member · Jul 28, 2017 at 10:54 pm

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  Hi. I accidentally made my blog live when it is nowhere near ready and I can’t find a way to undo this action. I also have no “privacy” option under settings on my dashboard to make it private. What can I do? I’ll pay to have an upgraded version or better support, but right now, I just need my blog to be private. Help? Please?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  mapetrei · Member · Jul 28, 2017 at 10:58 pm

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  Hello!

  You should be able to go to this page after you log into your WordPress.com account: https://wordpress.com/settings/general/herleyberley.wordpress.com

  From here, just scroll a bit until you find the Privacy section and change your Privacy to Private.

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  mapetrei · Member · Jul 28, 2017 at 10:59 pm

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  Also you can learn more about this here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  Hope this was helpful.

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  mapetrei · Member · Jul 28, 2017 at 11:00 pm

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  And don’t forget to hit the “Save Settings” button, after you change it.

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  herleyberley · Member · Jul 28, 2017 at 11:07 pm

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  Thank you! One more question though, this doesn’t look anything like the dashboard that I am working on. The blog I’m working on is bigobookblog.com, but I don’t see anything on the link you sent me that corresponds with the site I’m working on? Is there a way to check that?

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  herleyberley · Member · Jul 28, 2017 at 11:11 pm

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  Actually, now that I compare the two sites, even the dashboards are different. Everything is different. I appreciate your help.

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  mapetrei · Member · Jul 28, 2017 at 11:11 pm

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  Looking at your domain (bigobookblog.com), I see that this is not hosted on WordPress.com, but on HostGator. What this tells us is that you are WordPress.org user, not a WordPress.com user.

  This forum is dedicated only to the websites hosted on WordPress.com.

  To know more about the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, check this link : https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  The support forums for WordPress.org can be found here: https://wordpress.org/support/

  Hope this helps!

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  herleyberley · Member · Jul 28, 2017 at 11:18 pm

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  Sorry, thank you. You guys must have special powers of patience with people like me. Have a great day!

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  herleyberley · Member · Jul 28, 2017 at 11:23 pm

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  Of course, now I can’t log in to their site. Do you know if there is a help function for them that does not require a password? Serves me right for waiting a year to deal with this…

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  mapetrei · Member · Jul 28, 2017 at 11:45 pm

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  Hello. I’m glad I could help.

  Try to contact your host HERE. They should be able to help you, too.