maintenance mode
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I am having a terrible time trying to figure out how to put my website in maintenance /temporarily under construction mode. Please help.
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Hello there,
There is no Maintenance Mode/Page available here. However, there are two ways for hiding your website whilst you’re working on it.
You can:- Mark your site private: go to Dashboard>Settings>Reading and on Site Visibility tick the I would like my site to be private, visible only to users I choose under.
Your site will be hidden and you can always invite some people to be a viewer if you need to show your progress to someone. - Create a custom page saying that your site is in maintenance mode and set it as s static front Page.
Let me know if everything is clear, and if you need any help in implementing either options don’t hesitate to write here again!
- Mark your site private: go to Dashboard>Settings>Reading and on Site Visibility tick the I would like my site to be private, visible only to users I choose under.
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Frankly, I wouldn’t bother creating such a page. IO don’t share URLs to sites I’m working on until I have them set up. I never make them private because that leads to a delay in search engine indexing and a search result in the SERPs to a private page (robot.txt). but do read on.
re: creating a static front page
By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors, who come to read your latest post, and who are not likely to be happy with being compelled to click through the same static page with the same blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit the blog looking for the latest post.There must be a page for all posts published in the blog to display on. However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts.
To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/A static page (select below)
Front page:
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From Dashboard, go to Setting>Reading.
The “Front page displays” is the first entry on the page. It asks you if you want to have your latest posts or a static page. By ticking ‘static page’ the system lets you choose among some pages or posts you already have published.So before going there make sure to have already created a maintenance page to select.
Hope it makes sense to you :)
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I don’t think it matters much – you have an ongoing site with I assume real traffic – personally if I was making LARGE changes – I might put a sticky Post at the top of the front page with a note – pardon the changes – if I was just moving things around I would probably not bother to say anything
I think people come to a site for information – as long as you don’t have broken links or something I doubt it matters much
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