Make blog private to the public

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  halfassitude · Member · Sep 25, 2012 at 12:27 am

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  I need to make my blog private
  Blog url: http://halfassitude.wordpress.com/

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 25, 2012 at 1:21 am

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  Dashboard->Settings->Privacy. Not that this will not remove your archives from search engines, but will hide your posts going forward.

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  halfassitude · Member · Sep 25, 2012 at 1:26 am

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  Thank you so much. I’m afraid that if I click the radio button to make it unsearchable via google etc, that it will undo my thing about making it private. Is it a google cache issue? Can you yourself see it? Again, thank you so much for your help. I’m teaching now and I need this site downnnn but I don’t want to delete it :/

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  halfassitude · Member · Sep 25, 2012 at 1:27 am

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  I did click submit on the radio button earlier to make it private. Just worried about google cache, probably only time will make that stop?

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  csanzaro · Member · Sep 25, 2012 at 5:55 pm

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  How do you make it public from private?

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  csanzaro · Member · Sep 25, 2012 at 5:56 pm

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  How do you make it public from private?

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  timethief · Member · Sep 25, 2012 at 5:57 pm

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  @halfassitude
  Bing and Google flush their caches of indexed material every 3 – 6 months.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 25, 2012 at 5:59 pm

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  @csanzaro
  How do you make it public from private?
  This is the main link to all support documentation http://en.support.wordpress.com
  This is the result to typing privacy settings into the searchbox there > http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
  please follow those instructions.

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  csanzaro · Member · Sep 25, 2012 at 6:08 pm

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  I got it! Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Sep 25, 2012 at 6:08 pm

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  You’re welcome. :)

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  goutypete · Member · Oct 27, 2012 at 8:14 pm

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  I cannot see the privacy settings option in settings?

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  miych2000 · Member · Oct 31, 2012 at 11:08 pm

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  Hi, I’m in the same boat as goutypete. I’m new to WordPress, and originally when working through the wordpress-admin site, I could see the option under Settings > Reading > Site Visibility for, “I would like my site to be private, visible only to users I choose”.

  Today, I changed the hosting of my blog to GoDaddy, and when I log in to the wordpress interface via GoDaddy, much of the original WordPress functionality is gone. Under Settings > Reading > Site Visibility, there is no option anymore for my site to be private, and several of the other options are gone as well.

  Sorry if this is a basic question, but if someone could please clarify why this is the case and how I can restore the site-private functionality, that would be greatly appreciated. I’ve spent a good chunk of time trying to figure this out on my own and am about ready to throw in the towel. Thank you.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 31, 2012 at 11:17 pm

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  @miych2000
  You need to post to the correct support forum. We cannot help you here at WordPress.com with that site as it’s not being hosted by WordPress.com and we run on different software. This is the correct forum for your software http://wordpress.ORG/support/ If you have not registered a WordPress.org username account yet you can do so on the top right hand corner of the page I just linked to so you can post to those support forums.

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  pls3rdlearning · Member · Nov 14, 2012 at 7:13 pm

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  There is no Privacy link in the setting menu. How can I make my blog private?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 15, 2012 at 9:21 pm

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  @pls3rdlearning
  Where is the active link starting with http:// to the exact blog in question please?