Can I hide the blog before publishing?

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  kliimatainen · Member · Feb 15, 2014 at 5:03 pm

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  Help!

  I chose Twenty Eleven , activated it and noticed that I have already published it?! Can I hide it and publish it when it´s ready with all pages? I don´t want to show it to everybody before it. It would be very important.

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

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  timethief · Member · Feb 15, 2014 at 5:05 pm

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  Yes. See http://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 .

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  kliimatainen · Member · Feb 15, 2014 at 6:35 pm

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  Thanks! You´re great : )

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  kliimatainen · Member · Feb 15, 2014 at 6:35 pm

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  Thanks! You´re great : )

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  timethief · Member · Feb 15, 2014 at 7:03 pm

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  You’re kind and you’re welcome. These will be helpful links for you:

  By default the front page of the blog is the only page that will display all published posts on it. As soon as you publish a post not a page the error message will be gone. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  For creating a post see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
  For creating a page see here
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page

  For editing see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/

  On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the step by step Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/

  The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.

  Happy blogging!