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1. graphice
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I am setting up a new blog and want to have a placeholder page in place until I complete the modifications. Are there any plugins, besides "Maintenance Mode" that anyone knows of?

   Also, I tried uploading an index.html file to the root directory where the index.php file is located. That didn't work for some reason. The WP page is showing instead of the HTML file. I thought the html file overrode the php file. To rememdy that, I just deleted the index.php file from the root directory. The correct placeholder page is now showing but I cant get to the WP page to modify it.

   Any suggestions?

2. teagster
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I ran into the same problem when I recently installed WordPress - I didn't want my WordPress site to show up until it was done, and I already had a placeholder page ready to go.

   I tried what you said as well, and the problem is that on a lot of hosts, index.php is higher priority than index.htm or index.html - on some hosts it would work, but it depends...

   Check with whoever is hosting your site, and see what their priority or order of precedence is. My site is hosted with GoDaddy, and their order of precedence puts 'default.html' and 'default.htm' above 'index.php' so for me, it worked to use one of those- now I can access my WP site by going to 'http://siteurl.com/wp-admin/', while everyone else just sees the placeholder.

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