Starting a blog – newbie

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  inthewrongroomcom · Member · Jan 11, 2020 at 9:25 pm

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  I want to design the space first before submitting to the public and I cannot seem to find a way of doing this = I dont want to launch before its ready

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jan 13, 2020 at 6:02 am

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  Hi there,

  All new sites created on WordPress.com are set to private by default, and only visible to the account that owns it, including your site that you created yesterday. So no one but you can see that site at the moment.

  When you’re ready to go live, go to My Site ->Manage ->Settings and click on Launch Site, but until you do that the site is only visible to you.

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  inthewrongroomcom · Member · Jan 13, 2020 at 8:33 am

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  Hello
  Thank you for that it has helped greatly – I thought as soon as I paid for the name it would go “live”. I really have no clue about these things but I shall plod on!
  Thanks again.

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Jan 13, 2020 at 10:31 am

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  If you need some more help, you can also have a look at this page: https://wordpress.com/learn/.
  It’s a great way to start learning about our platform :)