Building a wordpress site privately

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by xyz, Jun 19, 2009.

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    Hey guys, I'm not great with wordpress - but I'm buiding a site that will take me a few weeks. Is it possible to work on the site so that only I can see it - all visitor would get an under maintenance message

    thanks
     
    xyz, Jun 19, 2009 IP
  2. TechnoGeek

    TechnoGeek Peon

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    Hello.

    The simplest solution I can think of is to alter the index.php page so that it displays your maintainance message. This will not block visitors coming through other pages, though. To achieve this you will have to alter other pages, such as the single.php page. Perhaps the best solution could be to load an empty blog with the message, and rename directories.

    Good luck.
     
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  3. bluebenz

    bluebenz Well-Known Member

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    why don't you use your computer as server ?
    try xampp server :

    
    http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.apachefriends.org%2Fen%2Fxampp.html&ei=fwM8Ss3lHZWCkQW_sIGkDg&usg=AFQjCNGc5NLvRxcZrB8MRP6RiYtrUCzJBg
    
    Code (markup):
     
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