Taking a blog offline for maintenance

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  heathenharvest · Member · Mar 11, 2012 at 5:18 pm

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  As title, is there any way to take my blog ‘offline’ for maintenance? So I can still work on it behind the scenes but everyone just sees a static front page while the work is going on? The reason for this is a design overhaul from standard theme to premium.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 11, 2012 at 5:27 pm

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  If you wish you can create a page with a maintenance announcement on it and then designate it temporarily as a static front page while you work on the blog. if you do that you will also have to create a page for posts to appear on and then designate the two here > Settings > Reading http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ Then when you done, you can change the settings back and delete the static page or make it private. Alternatively you could make the whole blog visibility “private”. I would not do either one. I would simply carry on with my work.

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  heathenharvest · Member · Mar 14, 2012 at 7:02 pm

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  Excellent, thank you very much.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 14, 2012 at 7:03 pm

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  You’re welcome ans best wishes with your spring blog cleaning. :)