WiscWeb - WordPress UW Theme - Site or Page Visibility Options
This document will walk you through the options that are available for adjusting the visibility of your site or particular pages.
- Save Your Changes First
- Set All Pages to Private
- Hide Site from Search Engines
- Archive Project
- Un-Publish the Domain
- Deleting the Site and Domain
Save Your Changes First
Before making sweeping changes to a site, it may be best that you save your current content. By exporting the site, you would be able to import back any content you might need by using an XML file. For this, please follow the instructions located here:
WiscWeb - WordPress UW Theme - Exporting a WordPress Site
Set All Pages to Private
Can be completed by: Website Admin or Editor
If you want to edit a site while keeping all of your content available to the public, you would need to set all new pages/posts to private until you want to publish them.
This would also be beneficial if you have relatively little content on your site: setting all pages to private would keep the site live while allowing you to edit.
WiscWeb - WordPress UW Theme - Publishing Views for Pages and Posts
Hide Site from Search Engines
Can be completed by: Website admin or editor
If your main source of traffic is through search engines, you can update your site to be non-indexed.
Archive Project
Can be completed by: WiscWeb team
- You want to remodel the site privately and the current public info can come down
- You would like the site to be unavailable to the public
- You would like users to be made aware that the site is currently unavailable
- You're unsure if you want to delete the site, but would not like it public at this time
- You would like the site to be taken down for now but may want it back up in the future
Example:
For this option, please send an email to help@doit.wisc.edu and request that we archive the site.
Un-Publishing the Domain
Can be completed by: WiscWeb team
This would publish to the WiscWeb URL again (sitename.wiscweb.wisc.edu) and would no longer be live.
The site will still be available to users who have the WiscWeb URL and for users who are editing the content of the site.
Please note: If someone goes to the production domain, a user would not receive any messaging that would indicate what happened to the site. This could be a jarring user experience. Therefore, it is suggested you only pursue this option if absolutely required.
For this option, please send an email to help@doit.wisc.edu and request that we un-publish the domain.
Deleting the Site and Domain
Can be completed by: WiscWeb team
For this option, please send an email to help@doit.wisc.edu and request a full site deletion.