Title: publish button question(beginner's question)
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# publish button question(beginner's question)

 *  [dannymudd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannymudd/)
 * (@dannymudd)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-questionbeginners-question/)
 * Hello, I’ve been learning to use WordPress for a week now for my jewelry shopping
   mall website. I have it installed in a shared hosting server, not in my computer.
   I’ve just started making the site and I have a very basic question. If I finish
   making a post and click on the publish icon, does it immediately go online for
   everyone to see? What I’d like to do is to finish making the whole site and let
   it go online on the opening date.

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 *  [juggledad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juggledad/)
 * (@juggledad)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-questionbeginners-question/#post-6845245)
 * Welcome to WordPress!
 * Yes, as soon as you hit publish, the post is live.
 * What you can do is install a under construction or coming soon plugin. (google‘
   wordpress plugin coming soon and try some). Thi will put up a default page for
   anyone not logged into the site. Once you are happy, you disable the plugin and
   the site is live.
 * Good luck with your site.
 *  Thread Starter [dannymudd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannymudd/)
 * (@dannymudd)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-questionbeginners-question/#post-6845246)
 * Got it. Thank you for your help. 🙂

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