Site visibility controls who can and can’t view your site.
Site privacy is controlled under site visibility in Settings > Reading.
There are six privacy options:
- Two public options – allows any one who knows your site URL to view the content on your site.
- Four private options – restricts who can view your site using a login page.
ALLOW SEARCH ENGINES TO INDEX THIS SITE
This allows any one who knows your site URL to read the content on your site and for your site to be indexed by search engines such as Google.
DISCOURAGE SEARCH ENGINES FROM INDEXING THIS SITE
Allows any one who knows your site URL to read content on your site while blocking web crawlers so that your site is not indexed by search engines such as Google.
You use this option if site visitors to view your content without needing to log in but limit access to those that know the URL.
ONLY REGISTERED USERS OF NETWORK CAN VIEW THIS SITE
This allows any one who is logged into their account on the network to view your site content.
ONLY REGISTERED USERS OF THIS SITE CAN VIEW IT
This privacy option if you want to restrict who can view the content of your site to only people who have been added as users to your site.
ONLY ADMIN USERS OF THIS SITE CAN VIEW IT
You use this privacy option if you only want people who have been added as admin users to your site to be able to view your site. This privacy option is most commonly used if you are setting up your site and want to hide it from others until you are ready to make it public.