How to unpublish a site under construction

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  jothompson101 · Member · May 5, 2015 at 9:21 pm

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  I am constructing a website but somehow it has been published.

  How can I unpublish the website until I am ready to launch it?

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

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  timethief · Member · May 5, 2015 at 9:27 pm

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

  Note that I never do this when I register a new blog because it takes weeks for search engines to index the content and I don’t want a private blog entry appearing in search engine results. I choose not to tell anyone what the URL is while I am setting up a new blog. As WordPress.com is a turnkey operation and as all blogs wearing the same theme use the same underlying template found on the live demo site, it doesn’t take long to set up a WordPress.COM blog. Those I help who have no blogging skills at all can have one up and running with 4 posts and 4 pages in 4 hours time.

  P.S. See here:
  https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/fusion/
  http://fusiondemo.wordpress.com/

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  jothompson101 · Member · May 5, 2015 at 9:35 pm

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  Thank you

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  timethief · Member · May 5, 2015 at 9:37 pm

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  You’re welcome.