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How to work on my blog behind the scenes

  1. mrsrealtalk
    Member

    HI!
    I'm a very novice blogger. So I'm taking the time to learn how to create a good blog. So I'm working from the bottom up, testing various themes, creating menus, etc. I would like to work on my blog without the public being able to see it while I'm working on it. Ideally, I would like to have a coming soon page up with maybe a countdown or a simple under construction page would work. That way people that land on the blog wouldn't see the work in progress, but they would see a note saying under construction or coming soon. Meanwhile I could see the development of my blog as I'm working on it. Is this possible?

    The blog I need help with is mrsrealtalk.wordpress.com.

  2. timethief
    Member

    Privacy settings > http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  3. raincoaster
    Member

    Create a Static Page, under Settings->General select that as the start page of the blog, and make all the other pages Private.

  4. mrsrealtalk
    Member

    Thanks timethief and raincoaster!
    timetheif, I'm having problems with connecting my RSS feed with Feedburner. I saw online that you have a really great post about connecting your RSS feed with WordPress.
    http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/12/25/rss-in-plain-english-and-feedburner-for-email-updates/
    But when I tried to do it, Feedburner said they could not find a valid feed at http://mrsrealtalk.wordpress.com/feed/
    Can you help me figure out why not?

  5. timethief
    Member

    Hi there,
    I falgged this thread for Staff support as your feed is broken. http://ismyblogworking.com/mrsrealtalk.wordpress.com
    http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmrsrealtalk.wordpress.com

  6. mrsrealtalk
    Member

    It's also saying that my blog is a self hosted WordPress blog, but i'm not at all!! I'm so confused!

  7. timethief
    Member

    Not to worry. Remain calm as Staff will sort this for you.

  8. macmanx
    Happiness Engineer

    You don't actually have any blog posts yet. Your feed won't work until you publish a post.

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