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Privacy options for your website

Pixieset offers a range of privacy features for your website. You can choose to hide your site from search engines, remove pages from the menu, restrict access to certain pages with a passcode, or protect your whole website with a unique password.

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Password protecting your site

Add a site password if you want to limit access to your entire website. Once implemented, visitors will need to enter the correct password before they can access any of your site pages.

To set up a site-wide password:

  1. Go to Settings > Advanced.
  2. Under Site-Wide Password, enter a unique password.
  3. Click Publish to go live with the password.

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Password protecting specific pages

You can assign a page password to keep a specific page of your website private. This is especially useful if you have a client area or page that you’d like only a limited audience to access.

Note: Page passwords are an upgraded feature available for users on any paid Website plan or Suite plan.

To assign a page password:

  1. Click ••• > Settings for the page you’d like to add a password to.
  2. Under Page Status, select Password Protected.
  3. Enter a unique password.
  4. Click Publish to go live with the password.

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Hiding a page from your menu

You can choose to remove a page from your site menu while keeping it accessible via a direct link. This is a simple way to share webpages with a select audience without cluttering your site navigation.

Important: Hiding a page adds some privacy, but keep in mind its direct link may still be shared or appear in search engine results. For full privacy, implement additional settings like a page password.

To hide a page from your site menu:

  1. Click ••• > Hide from menu for the page you’d like to hide.
  2. Click Publish to go live with the change.

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Taking a page offline

You can take a page completely offline so that no one can access it. Visitors will see a simple webpage with your logo that informs them that the page cannot be found.

Note: Search engines take time to re-index your website whenever you make changes. Until then, relevant search results may still display your offline page.

To make a page offline:

  1. Go to ••• > Settings for the page you’d like to take offline.
  2. Under Page Status, select Offline.
  3. Click Publish to go live with the change.

If you want to forward traffic from the offline page to an active one, consider setting up a 301 or 302 redirect afterwards. Learn more about redirects here.

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Hiding your site from search engine results

If you do not want your website to appear in search engine results, you can block Google and other search engines from indexing your site.

To hide a website from search engine results:

  1. Go to Settings > SEO Manager.
  2. Click Global.
  3. Toggle Search Engine Visibility to Hidden.
  4. Click Publish to go live with the change.

Note: Search engines take time to re-index your website whenever you make changes. Until then, your website may still appear in relevant search results.