Restrict Access to WordPress Site

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  amymillsguest · Member · Sep 6, 2016 at 9:23 pm

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  Hi- I’d like to ‘shut down’ my wordpress site so that it is no longer viewable… How do I do this?

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

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  timethief · Member · Sep 6, 2016 at 9:25 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

  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blogs and/or blog content or making the site private does not remove indexed content from the SERPs (search engine page results) and we cannot help with that. Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months. To completely remove an entire page from Google search results after it produces a 404 (page not found):
  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332384?hl=en&ref_topic=1724262&vid=0-635749429504660340-12158368555624983465&rd=1