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    <p>The easiest answer within a WordPress site would be:</p> <p>1) Go to Settings/Privacy and set the site as Ask search engines not to index this site. This will (source: <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Privacy_Screen" rel="nofollow">Codex: Privacy Settings explained</a>:</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>Causes &lt;meta name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' /&gt; to be generated into the section (if wp_head is used) of your site's source, causing search engine spiders to ignore your site. </li> <li>Causes hits to robots.txt to send back: User-agent: * Disallow: / Note: The above only works if WordPress is installed in the site root and no robots.txt exists.</li> <li>Stops pings to ping-o-matic and any other RPC ping services(...)</li> <li>Hides the Update Services option entirely on the Administration > Settings > Writing Screen with the message "WordPress is not notifying any Update Services because of your blog's privacy settings."</li> </ul> </blockquote> <p>You should test if this is working, using for example <a href="http://google.com/webmaster/tools" rel="nofollow">Google Webmaster Tools</a></p> <p>2) Add one of those plugins: <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-only/" rel="nofollow">Private Only</a>, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/registered-only/" rel="nofollow">Registered Only</a> or similar. They will prompt the login form to any visitor trying to see the site.</p> <p>Then, you are ready to work online without worrying about site visibility. Just remember to undo those changes, specially step 1. It could get you mad later if you forgot that. It will undermine all of your SEO efforts.</p> <p>There are also some nice plugins to set a 'Coming Soon' page and still be able to work on the theme that shows the 'coming soon' only for user that are not logged in.</p> <p>Best regards!</p>
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