TEACHING & LEARNING COMMONS KNOWLEDGE BASE

Privacy settings determine who can see or not see your WordPress site. You can change your privacy settings of your site in the Dashboard Navigation > Settings > Reading.

Setting your site privacy setting

You will be asked to select a privacy setting when setting up your WordPress site.

The first option means you want your site to be public to the world wide web, the last three options mean you want your site to be private. 

Privacy settings explained

Public Visibility 

Allow Search Engines To Index This Site

• Allows search engines to index your site content and return your site as a related search result. You would use this setting when you want people to find your site.  

Discourage search engines from indexing this site

• This would be politely asking search engines to not return your site as a related search result but does not prohibit access in any way.  It is up to search engines to honour your request.

Private Visibility

Visible Only To Registered Users Of This Network

• Only other KPU faculty or students can see your site if:
  • They have a KPU hosted WordPress account and
  • are current logged in to a KPU hosted WordPress account
• This will override any page or post specific visibility settings.

Visible Only To Registered Users Of This Site

• Only other KPU faculty or students can see your site if:
  • They have a KPU hosted WordPress account and
  • are current logged in to a KPU hosted WordPress account and
    
  • you have specifically created a user account on your WordPress site for that person
• This will override any page or post specific visibility settings.

Visible Only To Administrators Of This Site

•  Only other KPU faculty or students can see your site if:
  • They have a KPU hosted WordPress account and
  • are current logged in to a KPU hosted WordPress account and
    
  • you have specifically created a user account with administrator privilege on your WordPress site for that person
• This will override any page or post specific visibility settings.

Changing your privacy settings

You can change your site's privacy settings anytime after the site has been created. 

1. From your Dashboard navigation, navigate to Settings > Reading.
2. Change the privacy settings under Site visibility

Page/Post specific privacy settings

You can also control the privacy of each page/post on your site.

1. When each page/post is created, you will be able to select its status & availability. 
2. Expand the Visibility menu.Select the privacy settings you wish to display for the page/post.
   
   
   
   

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