Private blogs
How to hide your blog from search engines and the discover page
Bear is designed for public blogging, but sometimes you want a private space.
Step 1: Hide posts from the discover page
Each post has a discoverable attribute which controls whether it appears on the discover page. Set it to false in the attribute section of your post:
title: My private post
discoverable: false
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This post won't appear on the discover page.
If you have many posts, you'll need to set this on each one individually.
Step 2: Add it to your post template
Rather than setting discoverable: false on every single post, you can add it to your post template so that all new posts are private by default.
Go to Settings > Post template and add discoverable: false to the template attributes:
title:
discoverable: false
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Every new post you create will now have discoverable set to false automatically.
Note: This only applies to new posts. You'll still need to update any existing posts manually.
Step 3: Block search engines with robots.txt
Hiding from the discover page doesn't prevent search engines from indexing your blog. To block crawlers, go to Settings > Advanced and set your robots.txt to:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
This tells all search engine crawlers not to index any page on your blog.
What this doesn't do
These steps make your blog practically invisible. It won't show up on the discover page or in search results. However, anyone with a direct link to your blog can still read it.