Title: Making site not viewable
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Making site not viewable

 *  [themodishmom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themodishmom/)
 * (@themodishmom)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-site-not-viewable/)
 * Hello,
 * I saw in previous forums how to make the page not viewable; however, it instructed
   me to go to the dashboard where I would be able to find “publish” and change 
   it public or private.
 * I am not finding this!
 * I accidentally clicked to activate and make it viewable when I didn’t mean to
   and I just need help undoing it!
 * Thanks.

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 *  [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/)
 * (@rossmitchell)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-site-not-viewable/#post-5608228)
 * From Dashboard > Pages > All Pages
    Each page is a row, put mouse in the row,
   in either EDIT or QUICK EDIT you will be able to change to private or draft
 *  Thread Starter [themodishmom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themodishmom/)
 * (@themodishmom)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-site-not-viewable/#post-5608237)
 * Thank you for such a prompt response.
 * I guess I wanted to make my whole page not viewable though- not just a post. 
   It used to say website under construction before I accidentally made it viewable.
   Is that possible at this point?
 *  [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/)
 * (@rossmitchell)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-site-not-viewable/#post-5608248)
 * You seem to be using terms like “post” and “page” which have precise meanings
   in quite a hand waving fashion, never mind.
 * What I now understand is that you want your whole website to be no longer viewable
   to the public on the internet.
    This is possible, though it is not strictly a
   WordPress solution, rather it uses your website hosting. Your website hosting
   probably uses the cPanel interface, login to it, it has an option under “Security”
   for “Password Protect Directories” This will let you put a password on your website
   root directory, you will have to give it the username and password the FIRST 
   time you access it from a browser, you will get an option to remember this. The
   rest of the world is in for a very slow search if your choice of name and password
   are half decent.
 * If you don’t have cPanel, or “Password Protect Directories” then talk with your
   web hosting support.
 *  Thread Starter [themodishmom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themodishmom/)
 * (@themodishmom)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-site-not-viewable/#post-5608251)
 * Thank you for your assistance. This was very useful.

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 * [private](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/private/)
 * [public](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/public/)
 * [view](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/view/)

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 * Last reply from: [themodishmom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themodishmom/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-site-not-viewable/#post-5608251)
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