Temporarily Disable Website During Redesign

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  lovelleharris · Member · Oct 3, 2014 at 7:10 pm

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  I want to redesign and temporarily disable my website and put a “Under Construction” title on it until it has been redesigned.

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

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  timethief · Member · Oct 3, 2014 at 7:31 pm

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  To change blog visibility to private so you can use the unwanted blog later go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  To read why I never ever do this see here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/can-i-create-web-pages-and-blogs-before-i-make-them-live?replies=6#post-1946233

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  timethief · Member · Oct 3, 2014 at 7:32 pm

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  Sorry. Your blog is not unwanted and I do understand that your want to make it private only temporarily. The instruction I posted above will result in that. Go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

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  lovelleharris · Member · Oct 4, 2014 at 12:10 am

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  Thank you, timethief. Do you know how I can add “Under Construction” to the site so we don’t completely lose our audience.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 4, 2014 at 1:14 am

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  You can’t have one public page and the design of the blog private. It’s not possible on WordPress.com

  In my experience users don’t really care about visual tinkering, and you will do more harm by setting your blog private than you would by tinkering publicly. You lose ALL search engine ranking, for instance, and it can take a couple of months or more to get re-indexed. Is it really worth it?