Comments on: How do I hide my WordPress blog until it’s ready to go live?

By: Sanaa

Sanaa — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:33:50 +0000

Has anyone found a plugin that will allow you to customize your blog WHILE KEEPING IT LIVE. I have a non-profit, so I’d like it to be up and running but have major changes I want to make.

It’s the only problem I see with switching to the blog platform –there’s no way to work on and preview your changes, then publish when ready…

or is there? anybody, please?

thanks

By: Sam Deeks

Sam Deeks — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:19:39 +0000

Adam, it did work when I posted and for a long time after. The internet moves on. Thank you for your comment.

By: adam

adam — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:43:24 +0000

Its a nice idea, too bad it doesn’t work

By: Brooks

Brooks — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:40:04 +0000

Exactly what I was looking for! Awesome! Thank you!

By: yury rush

yury rush — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:53:25 +0000

Perfect, thanks just want the doctor ordered

Ciao
yury

By: Wayne Farley

Wayne Farley — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:42:01 +0000

Thanks! I was looking for this for some time now.

By: Sam Deeks

Sam Deeks — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:56:20 +0000

Glad to be able to help! Neat isn’t it?

By: Brooks

Brooks — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:43:09 +0000

Exactly what I was looking for! Awesome! Thank you!

By: Sam Deeks

Sam Deeks — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:04:02 +0000

Hi Kathie

I don’t quite understand what you mean when you say that you don’t want your clients ‘logging in to the blog’?

Essentially, Maintenance Mode ‘replaces’ your home page AND all the other pages in your site while you’re building it, until you’re ready to take the wraps off and go live.

By: Kathie M. Thomas

Kathie M. Thomas — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:01:03 +0000

I’m looking for something like this, but not quite. My clients are technophobic and I don’t want them logging into the blog to view it. I’d much rather just be able to hide the index.php page, ideally with an index.htm so people see that but give my clients the page extension addresses so they can view them without logging in. Do you know if that’s possible?