Your site’s Privacy Settings control who can view your site. This guide will show you where to find the Privacy Settings and understand each setting available.
To access your site’s privacy options:
- Visit your site’s dashboard.
- Navigate to Settings → General.
- Scroll to the “WordPress Site Settings” section at the bottom of the general settings page.
- Click the “Manage site visibility, gift subscriptions, ownership, and other site tools…” link.
- Locate the Privacy section.*
- If you do not have a “Privacy” section, you have not yet launched your site.
- Choose from three privacy options:
- Coming Soon: Your site is hidden from visitors while you’re working on it.
- Public: Your site is visible to everyone.
- Private: Your site is only visible to you and any users your approve.
* Do not confuse this with Settings → Privacy on a plugin-enabled site, which is used for creating a privacy policy.
To learn how to opt out of sharing your site’s public content with third parties (including AI models), visit the Prevent Third-Party Sharing guide.
Visit the guides below to learn more about each privacy setting:
Display a Coming Soon Page
This guide explains how to show a Coming Soon page and share a preview link while you are working on your site.
Make Your Website Public
This guide will show you how to publish your website and make it visible to search engines.
Make Your Website Private
This guide explains how to make your site private.
Launch Your Website
In this guide you will learn how to launch your site and what you can do after the site is live.
