Privacy Settings - WordPress

Your site's privacy settings control who has access to your site. You can edit the privacy level of your site by going to Settings > Reading.

Select your Privacy Settings

When you create a site will be prompted to choose what site visibility setting you want to use.

• Publicly viewable options include "Allow Search engines" or "Discourage search engines"
• The remainder are increasing levels of privacy
• When you select Create Site after selecting your privacy settings those will be the active privacy settings used on your site unless you decide to manually change it.

Details on the privacy settings your can choose from

Change your privacy settings

When you first create a site it defaults to be viewable by logged-in users of blogs.evergreen.edu only. To make your site publicly viewable:

1. From your Dashboard navigate to Settings > Readings
2. Choose the Site Visibility setting that you want.
   • Publicly viewable options include "Allow Search engines" or "Discourage search engines"
   • The remainder are increasing levels of privacy
3. Click Save Changes

Reading Settings are where you change your privacy settings

Page/Post specific privacy settings

You can also control the specific privacy settings for each page or post.

1. When your create or edit a page or post, you will see a drop down menu titled Publish in the left hand corner of the page.
2. Expand the drop down menu
3. Click Edit next to the visibility status
4. Select the privacy setting you want to utilize for your page/post

From the publish drop down menu you can change the privacy settings of a page/post