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The Privacy Settings control what type of visitors can read your blog.

Blog Visibility has three options which we’ll cover individually.

1. I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers – This is the setting used by most blogs. It lets everyone read your blog and allows your blog to be included in search engines and other content sites.
2. I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors – If you want all human visitors to be able to read your blog, but want to block web crawlers for search engines, this is the setting for you.
3. I would like my blog to be visible only to users I choose – You would use this setting to create a private blog. If selected, another area will appear (see the last screenshot) where you can control the WordPress.com usernames with access to the blog.

Here you can add and remove WordPress.com usernames from the access list. By adding WordPress.com usernames to the access list you are not giving the users access to the Dashboard of the blog. This list only gives users access to read the the blog.

Note: WordPress.com employees can read all blog regardless of Privacy setting.

Video

Watch the “Setting your posts – or entire blog – to private” video from WordPress.tv.
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Last modified: December 20, 2008