Site visibility controls who can and can’t view your site.

There are six privacy options:

  • Two public options – allows any one who knows your site URL to view the content on your site.
  • Four private options – restricts who can view your site using a login page.
Privacy options

RSS is automatically disabled on all private blogs to ensure your content is restricted to only people who should be able to read it.

The privacy of student blogs attached to a class blog via My Class is controlled in My Class > Settings.

The password privacy option is recommended if you want to make your site private but don’t want others to login to a user account to view your site.

Change Privacy

Site privacy is controlled under site visibility in Settings > Reading.

Readings settings

Select your preferred privacy option under site visibility and then click Save Changes.

Select your preferred privacy

Allow search engines to index this site

This allows any one who knows your site URL to read the content on your site and for your site to be indexed by search engines such as Google.

Discourage search engines from indexing this site

Allows any one who knows your site URL to read content on your site while blocking web crawlers so that your site is not indexed by search engines such as Google.

You use this option if site visitors to view your content without needing to log in but limit access to those that know the URL.

Only registered users of Edublogs network can view this site

This allows any one who is logged into their Edublogs account to view your site content.

Visitors to your site will see the following notification if they aren’t logged into an Edublogs account.

Only registered users of this site can view it

This privacy option if you want to restrict who can view the content of your site to only people who have been added as users to your site.  

Visitors to your site will see the following notification if they aren’t logged into their account and haven’t been added as a user to your site.

Only registered users of this site


Only admin users of this site can view it

You use this privacy option if you only want people who have been added as admin users to your site to be able to view your site.   This privacy option is most commonly used if you are setting up your site and want to hide it from others until you are ready to make it public.

People visiting your site will see the following notification if they aren’t logged into their account and aren’t an admin user on your site.

Admin privacy option

Only someone who provides the following password can view this site

This privacy option is used if you want to restrict who can view your site to only those who know the password.  

This is the best privacy option to use on a private site if you want parents, students and other teachers to easily be able to view your site without having to log into an account.

People visiting your site will see the following notification.

Password privacy

To view the site the person needs to add the password you added in Settings > Reading into the password field and then click Log In.