Got this question because she would like to keep things a bit hidden until the reveal is ready ;)
Completely hiding a site takes a bit extra geekiness, so we’re going to do the next best thing; set things to “Draft.”
First, to the right of a page or a post, there is the “Publish” box:
Click on Edit. Then you will see this:
1) Click on the drop-down menu and choose “Draft”
2) Click “OK”
3) Click on “Update Page” (on a Post, it will say Update Post)
This will take them off the public site, yet you can still see them and work with them within your WordPress back-end.
If you’d like to take it a step further, go back into your General Settings and delete the site’s title and tag line for now, and re-enter them just before you launch. Another thing you may want to do is NOT activate the theme you have chosen – stay with the default until just before. Activate the theme every how and then to see how things will look, but go back to the original.
YOU can still view the pages as if they were published, by clicking on the “Preview” button:
To easily see which pages are in Draft mode, click the Pages button on the left of the Dashboard, and you’ll see “Draft” by the ones that are, well… in Draft ;)
To make them visible again, just go back to the Publish box and click on the “Publish” button. Let me know if there is more ;)
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