Temporarily Disable WordPress

  • wendel-brume

    (@wendel-brume)


    15 years, 6 months 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.

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  • Jeremy Clark

    (@jeremyclark13)

    15 years, 6 months 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.

    Thread Starter wendel-brume

    (@wendel-brume)

    15 years, 6 months 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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