While revamping or putting up content for your website, you may want to keep it shielded from public access. In other words, rather than showing an incomplete website, it would be nice to give your visitors a notice that you’re constructing the site and that it will be ready soon.
- Enable maintenance mode
- Password protect
- Block all access and allow only your IP address
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Can I Hide my WordPress site from others?
April 4, 2014 By Benjamin Ehinger Starting your WordPress site is a very exciting thing. However, you may not want others to be able to see your site until it’s complete. Hiding your site can easily be done with the right plugin. A good WordPress Plugin will give you an “under construction” or “coming soon” page instead of your actual website.
Can I hide my website until it’s complete?
April 4, 2014 By Benjamin Ehinger Starting your WordPress site is a very exciting thing. However, you may not want others to be able to see your site until it’s complete. Hiding your site can easily be done with the right plugin. A good WordPress Plugin will give you an “under construction” or “coming soon” page instead of your actual website.
How to add an under construction page to your WordPress website?
underConstruction WordPress Plugin – The underConstruction plugin has been downloaded nearly 600,000 times. It has a 4.9 out of 5.0 star rating and provides just what you need to hide your website during development. You can easily install the plugin just like any other WordPress plugin. Once it’s installed, you will need to activate the plugin and turn it on. Just activating the plugin won’t give you an “under construction” page. Go to Settings >> Under Construction and change the “Activate or Deactivate” option to “on.” Make sure you click “Save Changes.” The Display Options of this plugin will also allow you to use your own HTML or customize the text for this page. This works great if you need to give potential clients a way to contact you. The default page looks like this: 
You can customize this however you need with the other two options: 
Why should I hide posts and pages on my website?
Can I Take My WordPress Site Offline? – Yes! You can easily take your WordPress site offline using SeedProd, 
SeedProd lets you hide your entire site behind a coming soon page. It has an awesome landing page builder that you can use to make your own custom page designs. WPForms is the best WordPress Form Builder plugin. Get it for free! With SeedProd, you can easily make:
- Coming soon pages : Use this setting to hide your WordPress site until it’s ready. This is sometimes called an ‘under construction page’.
- 404 pages : Make your own custom page that shows up if someone tries to visit a deleted page on your website.
- Maintenance mode pages : Design a page to display if you need to take your site offline for maintenance,
- Custom landing pages : Create your own beautiful distraction-free landing page forms for newsletter signups, webinars, and more.
Even better, lets you hide all of your site or just the specific posts and pages you need to work on. That means your visitors will never have to see broken or unfinished content. You don’t have to move or delete your site to show a ‘coming soon’ page with SeedProd, and search engines will still see a valid page when they visit.
- Even better, you can add a newsletter signup form so you can continue to get subscribers while your WordPress site is offline.
- You can read more about these features in our full SeedProd review,
- For now, follow the tutorial below to find out how to hide your WordPress site until it’s ready to launch.
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