Is it possible to turn off subcategories while I'm building them?

[strugglingnovice]

I'm adding another product to my bigredworkweardotcom site, it will be Bulwark Fire Resistant Apparel.

I added the Bulwark category to my homepage already, and I'm wondering if there is some way that I can build my product subcategories within the Bulwark category and not have them show up until I'm finished.

I don't want to take my entire site down for maintenance, I just want to disable the Bulwark category/subcategories.

When I built my original site, I had a test site, and then imported everything into my working site, and it didn't go smoothly. I had several problems doing it this way. It would be so much easier to just work within this category on my main site, building my different products, but I don't want people to be able to access it, as it's unfinished.

Is it possible to do this? Is there some way I can turn these subcategories off until I'm finished, but work on them?

Once again, thanks so much for the help, I appreciate everything you guys do for me, and it's been a lot over the past couple of years.

[dbltoe]

Should work if you just click the subcat status to turn it off. You'd need to check after each product add to make sure nothing did a reset.

[stevesh]

Far as I know you can just disable the Bulwark category in admin (click green button to red) and still edit it and add subactegories and then products to it.