Dashboard – Settings – Privacy
Change the check box to “I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors”
Default is to Allow Search Engines. The above box works great – I have had a test site up for 6+ months and it is invisible to search engines.
Many developers also have WordPress on their desktop PC for development work.
Thanks.
In regards to setting WordPress on your desktop PC for development work, do you have any opinions about the best way to do this. There are multiple resourcee online, however just wondering if you had an strong opinion which way to go.
If working and learning about WordPress locally works, I think this would be beneficial for me espicially if for whatever reason I don’t have an internet connection (I have a laptop).
I used “xampp” and some related things, there are a lot of articles out there – many I found very confusing – I stumbled finally on some that made some sense then I carefully stepped through the steps and sort of like magic the install appeared (I did make an error in setting up the directories but things run fine, the directories look different that the example)
I find using the desktop easier to learn on.
Sorry I can’t remember where I found all the information. There are others here much more knowledgeable than I that can help. You might want to start a new thread on how to run WordPress on your desktop.
Good luck.
