Title: Turn on Blog Privacy
Author: Ben Lobaugh (blobaugh)
Published: <strong>September 10, 2012</strong>
Last modified: June 5, 2017

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Turn on Blog Privacy

 By [Ben Lobaugh (blobaugh)](https://profiles.wordpress.org/blobaugh/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/turn-on-blog-privacy.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/turn-on-blog-privacy/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/turn-on-blog-privacy/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/turn-on-blog-privacy/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/turn-on-blog-privacy/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/turn-on-blog-privacy/)

## Description

If you have a public development site and desire for bots and crawlers not to visit
your site until it is considered production this plugin can help you by
 automagically
settings the site to private.

This Multisite compatible plugin will detect whether your site is running a single
install or a multisite install of WordPress and react accordingly.

When you enable this plugin it sets the site option for whether or not the site 
should tell search engines and other crawlers not to index the site.
 Upon activations
bots will be asked not to crawl the site (Note: this is not a 100% solution, bots
may ignore this directive, though most search engines honor it).

When this plugin is deactivated the privacy setting will be turned off and bots 
will be freely allowed to crawl the website again.

NOTE: Due to how WordPress Multisite handles network wide plugin activation you 
will currently need the Proper Network Activation plugin if you wish to turn on 
privacy immediately when enabling this plugin.

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

e.g.

 1. Upload plugin folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

  Does this stop all bots/crawlers from indexing my site?

No. All this plugin does is enable the built-in WordPress privacy setting. This 
settings politely asks bots not to index the site, however they are free to ignore

the directive and index the site anyways. In most cases bots will honor the directive
and not crawl the website. Search engines, such as Google and Bing honor this.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Turn on Blog Privacy” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Ben Lobaugh (blobaugh) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/blobaugh/)
 *   [ freshmuse ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/freshmuse/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/turn-on-blog-privacy/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/turn-on-blog-privacy/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/turn-on-blog-privacy/)
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## Changelog

#### 1.1

 * Verified working with WP 4.4.1

#### 1.0

 * First version of the plugin

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.2**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.8.30**
 * Tags
 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/multisite/)[privacy](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/privacy/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/turn-on-blog-privacy/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Ben Lobaugh (blobaugh) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/blobaugh/)
 *   [ freshmuse ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/freshmuse/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/turn-on-blog-privacy/)