Share Your Website Privately with a PIN

How private mode works

When your Complete IDX Website finishes building, it sits on a private test address that ends in idxplugin.site, and the status says Private. View website opens the preview and asks for the PIN shown next to it. Without the PIN the address does not open, so nobody stumbles onto the site before you are ready. Open WordPress admin takes you straight in as an administrator, no PIN involved.

Show it to a client before launch

The PIN exists so the preview can be shared on purpose. Send the private address and the PIN to a colleague or a client and they see the full working website, with search running on the data from your IDX Broker account, before anything is public. When the review round is over, reset the PIN and the old one stops working immediately. Copy and reset both sit right next to the address in your dashboard, and the PIN is unrelated to your IDX Broker login, so sharing it exposes nothing else.

When does it stop being private

Creating and previewing the website changes nothing on your current setup. It stays private until you publish it, and nothing about it is public during the 30-day IDX Plugin test. It goes public only when you publish it on your own domain. Even then the PIN stays active while publishing runs and is removed only after every step has succeeded, so the website is never half published in the open.

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