"Under Construction" Custom Page

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  ashleylaurendesignstudio · Member · Mar 24, 2016 at 5:34 pm

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  I need this image:

  https://ashleylaurendesignstudio.wordpress.com/wp-admin/upload.php?item=814

  to stretch across as a web page so when people go to my site they see this image, and this image only while I work on the site behind-the-scenes.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 24, 2016 at 5:38 pm

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  We Volunteers cannot view uploads. The bottom line here is that there is no under construction page provided by wordpress.COM. To change blog visibility to Private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings

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  timethief · Member · Mar 24, 2016 at 5:41 pm

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  Note that it can take weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL. https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/ I never share the new blog URL when I register one and I never make the site private as when you do that result is displayed in Google search results.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 24, 2016 at 7:32 pm

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  @ashleylaurendesignstudio, I’m seeing your image on the main page when I visit your site. Have you gotten this resolved or is there something else you wish on this?

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  ashleylaurendesignstudio · Member · Mar 24, 2016 at 8:02 pm

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  @thesacredpath It’s on my main page, but it’s getting cut off. How I have it now is just inserted into the theme as a header image.

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  ashleylaurendesignstudio · Member · Mar 24, 2016 at 8:04 pm

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  @timethief Thank you! I took the site off private. I haven’t promoted the site at all, but it was previously in Squarespace and I switched it over to WP for more customization, so I still have readers coming back to view. Therefore, I want it to look nice so they know what’s going on. Thanks for all your help!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 25, 2016 at 3:26 am

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  We can do that. First off, remove the featured image from the front page. Next replace the CSS you have with the following. I’ve included a comment line at the beginning and end so that when you are ready to make your site live, you can easily remove this CSS.

  /*start home page under construction*/
  .home .feature-header {
      background-color: transparent;
      background-image: none !important;
      height: 1200px !important;
  }
  body.home {
      background: url("https://ashleylaurendesignstudio.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/alds_site_construction.png") no-repeat scroll center top / contain;
  }
  .home .entry-footer {
      display: none;
  }
  .home .entry-wrapper:before {
      border-top: none;
  }
  .home .entry-title {
      visibility: hidden;
  }
  /*end home page under construction*/

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  ashleylaurendesignstudio · Member · Mar 25, 2016 at 2:43 pm

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  @thesacredpath AH! It worked! Thank you so much, you are awesome!!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 25, 2016 at 8:14 pm

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  Thanks and you are welcome.