Can I go from a private website to a public website?

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  stoddarddems · Member · Mar 3, 2017 at 2:10 am

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  Develop my website in private and when completed convert it to public

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

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  timethief · Member · Mar 3, 2017 at 3:37 am

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  Yes. See: https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
  To change blog visibility to Private go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings

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  timethief · Member · Mar 3, 2017 at 3:38 am

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  The only themes we can use on WordPress.com hosted blogs are licensed and adapted to run on our multi user software the themes are found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and in your dashboard at > Appearance > Themes

  Every theme has a detailed theme description page like this one is at https://wordpress.com/themes/twentysixteen/ That’s where set up instructions for it are found. The live demo site is at https://twentysixteen.wordpress.com/

  All support docs are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/

  You must be logged in under the exact same username that registered the site to be able to access the site. The Admin login link to the dashboard for every blog hosted by wordpress.COM is:

  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/

  Replace NAME_OF_BLOG in that URL with the actual name of your blog.

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  thefarerside · Member · Mar 9, 2017 at 6:39 pm

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  In my version of wordpress (4.7.3), there is no Blog Visibility-option under Settings>Reading