How do i unpublish a website

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  richardjhughesuk · Member · Aug 26, 2018 at 12:45 pm

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  How to I unpublish a website

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

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  sachintawade · Member · Aug 26, 2018 at 1:56 pm

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  Hi there,

  Go to your websites dashboard. Select Settings.
  From there, select Privacy.
  You’ll see three options: Public, Hidden, and Private.

  If you select “Hidden”, search engines will no longer link to your site but anyone who has the address of your blog will be able to see everything.

  Select Private to make your website private.

  Hope this helps.

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  themagicrobot · Member · Aug 26, 2018 at 2:10 pm

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  I’m pretty sure those WordPress.com options regarding site visibility won’t work for a site hosted elsewhere using the WordPress.org software. A plugin will be required. Best to ask for advice at https://wordpress.org/support/

  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

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  kokkieh · Staff · Aug 27, 2018 at 8:35 am

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  Hi there,

  Self-hosted WordPress sites don’t have an option to set to private, no. If you don’t want your site visible online you’ll need to install a maintenance mode plugin to hide it from view.