Maintenance Mode

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  tomfromtechnoteamblog · Member · Dec 2, 2013 at 8:10 pm

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  I think that there should be a Maintenance Mode available on WordPress.com so that we don’t have to make our site private when we want to make changes to it.

  Thanks,
  Tom

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  timethief · Member · Dec 2, 2013 at 8:15 pm

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  I have no use for one because I have private test blogs set up as mirror blogs of my main blogs. I do all testing in the mirror blogs first. Then I make changes on the main blogs without setting them to private as it usually takes me only a few minutes to make the changes.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 2, 2013 at 8:17 pm

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  You can also create a page with a “maintenance notice” on it then switch to use it temporarily as static front page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

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  tomfromtechnoteamblog · Member · Dec 2, 2013 at 8:18 pm

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  Yeah. I do use a private testing site but I like to make sure that the changes I make are working OK and everything, but I suppose that doing this doesn’t really take long anyway.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 2, 2013 at 8:19 pm

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  I just wanted to be sure you knew to two other options we have.

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  tomfromtechnoteamblog · Member · Dec 2, 2013 at 8:20 pm

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  Yeah. Thanks for the advice! I will use it in the future.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 2, 2013 at 8:22 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes. :)

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  onelisadunc · Member · Dec 2, 2013 at 8:31 pm

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  Thanks for the idea for a test blog. I never thought of that. I am going to set one up today for one of my blogs. So smart!

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  timethief · Member · Dec 2, 2013 at 8:33 pm

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  Hi there,
  You’re welcome. Every blogger needs a test blog to try out themes and widgets, etc. in. :) Make it a private mirror blog of your primary blog and it becomes very useful as well as being a backup blog you import content into on a regular basis. To change blog visibility go to > Settings > Reading. here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ scroll down to Creating a mirror blog http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/05/19/how-to-select-a-wordpress-com-theme-part-1/

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  rio692013 · Member · Dec 3, 2013 at 2:12 am

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  Да как иНтееРесноооо…….