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1. Wendel Brume
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'd like to be able to temporarily disable WordPress from displaying at my site so I can put up a standard HTML page. Is it as simple as replacing the index file in the root directory? After saving the WordPress index file under another name, so I can reinstate it later? Any horrible side effects of doing it this way?

   Thanks.

2. Jeremy Clark
   Moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   If it's pure html and not php then simple putting a index.html and changing your default documents to serve .html before .php would work unless someone specifically typed in yoururl/index.php. Then when your done just remove the index.html file and your wordpress should start displaying again.

   The maintenance mode plugin for wordpress is another option I don't know how flexible it is in displaying html but it might be worth a look.

3. Wendel Brume
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks Jeremy, but could you explain a little bit more what you meant by:

   and changing your default documents to serve .html before .php would work

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