Can I "publish" a page, yet still have it be private?

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  hurtbyucla · Member · May 2, 2016 at 10:46 am

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  For the purposes of designing and building my WordPress site, I would like to be able to move my static page from being a “draft” to being “published,” so I can see how different themes look on it, and so I can let other stakeholders see how the work is progressing.

  BUT I do not want my content to be publicly viewable or indexed by Google’s spiders just yet. I don’t want my site to “go live” before I’m sure all the content is just how it needs to be.

  So, is there a way to do this?

  Thanks in advance for your help.

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

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  fattymattybrewing · Member · May 2, 2016 at 3:03 pm

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  You betcha, you can apply setting in the WordPress dashboard to make your website visable by others but not searchable by Google by doing this:

  ~Login to WordPress.com
  ~load up your WordPress dashboard
  ~in the left sidebar of the dashboard, navigate to Settings > Reading
  ~select the radio button to “Discourage search engines from indexing this site”
  ~DONE!

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  hurtbyucla · Member · May 2, 2016 at 5:59 pm

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  Thank you Fatty Matty, much appreciated!

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  fattymattybrewing · Member · May 2, 2016 at 9:47 pm

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  My pleasure. I’d say this thread is CLOSED!