Of course you can edit a site without using maintenance page, but you have to login into dashboard to make those changes.
But if I log in, won’t that be visible to anyone looking at the site?
Ivan
(@ivanyordanov)
Well, any change that you make on your live site will be visible to all of your visitors.
If I understood you correctly you want to make some changes and if they are successful, to perform them on your live site.
I would suggest you to clone your site to a subfolder, or use a tool like “staging” or something similar to it. This way you can modify the site in the subfolder and test the new settings while your live site remains unchanged for all of your users.
You can, for example, restrict the access to the development copy of the site for rest of the users and make it visible for yourself only using the .htaccess:
deny from all
allow from Your_IP
where Your_IP is your actual computer’s IP address. Once you verify that your modifications are fine, you can repeat the changes on your live site.
Thanks Ivan
I still have a copy of the site in my test directory so I can use that.
It was just that if I wanted to make a minor change on the live site that might only take me a minute to do, I wondered if anyone using the site at the time could see that I was in Admin by the bar at the top.
Ivan
(@ivanyordanov)
I don’t think your visitors could be aware of the fact that you have logged in as Admin. They will only see the change that you have made.
So I don’t have to enable the Site down for maintenance plugin each time I am updating something? This is what I have been doing.
Its a new site and I am making minor changes all the time at client’s request and I don’t like to keep taking it offline for minor things.
Thank you!
