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Hi! New Here. Sub Domain for Development Question

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  • April 23, 2015 at 10:42 am #148908
    Ryan Wilcox
    Member

    Hi,

    My name is Ryan. I'm new to Studiopress, and will be using a sub domain to tinker with my new Genesis theme. I've searched the forum for related topics. I'm sorry if this has already been asked, or is common knowledge.

    Are sub domains visible to the public (not admin users)? I'm wanting to hide the development of my new site from public view, while my current one remains active.

    My current site does not run on Genesis, so that makes the move tricky. I'm basically installing a completely separate temporary site, including plugins. I've done my own research, but I thought I'd ask the experts before diving headfirst.

    Thanks for the time,

    Ryan

    http://www.ryanwilcox.org/
    April 23, 2015 at 10:57 am #148909
    Victor Font
    Moderator

    Any site you setup on the Internet is visible. You can reduce the visibility of a site by adding a robots.txt file to fobid indexing, but badly behaved bots will ignore robots.txt. You can also go to The Settings/Reading menu in the WordPress admin and check Discourage search engines from indexing this site next to Search Engine Visibility. It is up to search engines to honor this request.

    Regards,

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    April 23, 2015 at 11:02 am #148910
    Ryan Wilcox
    Member

    I was afraid that was the case. Thanks for the info.

    April 23, 2015 at 3:51 pm #148941
    Ren Ventura
    Member

    You can still block users from accessing it by adding something like a maintenance mode plugin or a custom redirect if the user does not have admin privileges.

    Web & Software Developer & Blogger | RenVentura.com | Follow Me on Twitter @CLE_Ren

    April 23, 2015 at 3:54 pm #148942
    Ren Ventura
    Member

    You can also set up a local environment for testing purposes. I'd suggest this anyway because a local server is faster and you don't have to mess with uploading files (i.e. FTP). This makes the entire testing process much faster.

    Web & Software Developer & Blogger | RenVentura.com | Follow Me on Twitter @CLE_Ren

    April 23, 2015 at 7:03 pm #148956
    Ryan Wilcox
    Member

    Thanks, everyone. I'll update as I progress.

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