Making site inactive while I populate it?

I’m a caveman so I hit it with a club, try adding something like this to the top of your index file..

if ($_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’]) !=’127.0.0.1′){
exit();
}

putting your own IP in of course

@sara: Please stay with one thread.

Read the docs for Absolute Privacy and see that is also can block RSS; and also look in WordPress>Dashboard>Settings>Privacy to block Google, too.