Keep "coming soon" htm page while editing WP

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  didaskw · Member · Apr 22, 2011 at 2:49 pm

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  I will be auto-installing WP from cPanel and then adding a 3rd-party WP 3.0 theme as the main website (versus a blog site). I currently have a “coming soon” index.htm page with contact info.

  My question is: Will I be able to install WP engine/theme to the root without losing the index.htm while I’m customize the WP theme?

  I guess what I’m trying to find out is will my WP index.php page take precedence over my index.htm page?

  I know WP has security settings, however, I don’t know what the public will see if I set the security to private while I’m editing the site. I need to have the public view the contact info while I’m updating the WP theme site.

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  airodyssey · Member · Apr 22, 2011 at 5:47 pm

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  Hi. You seem to have a self-hosted WordPress.ORG blog and are in the wrong forum. Please ask your question at http://wordpress.org/support

  You are currently in a WordPress.COM forum and our answers will not apply to your situation. Thanks and I hope you find a solution to your problem soon.

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  didaskw · Member · Apr 22, 2011 at 8:06 pm

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  Oh, thank you so much. I most certainly will.