Hi JustCurious,
If you want to rename the folder that WordPress is installed into, you will need to change the Site URL as well:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
If WordPress is working fine in your wp subfolder, why not just give that URL to your customer?
If what you want to do is hide the site from all others and only allow one or more people to view the site as it’s being built, I would suggest using a maintenance/coming soon plugin such as:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-coming-soon-and-under-construction/faq/
If you would like, here’s a step-by-step walk through on setting up the Simple Coming Soon and Under Construction Plugin.
Any one who is not logged in will only see the maintenance/coming soon page. For the customer to see the site while it’s being developed (behind the curtain if you will) simply create a user for them so they can log into WordPress and view the site while it’s being developed.
Hope this helps!
Thanks for your reply!
If I create a new user for customer, can I limit his access privileges?
For instance, not giving him access to the dashboard, in order to avoid any unintentional mess/damages?
Hi JustCurious,
You’re welcome. Yes, you can certainly limit the user’s access, and that’s a good idea. Since you do not want to allow them to make any changes, you can give them the role of “Subscriber”:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Subscriber
This will limit them to viewing the site and being able to access a profile screen for their user. They will not be able to make any changes to the site or increase the capabilities of their role.
Hope this helps!
ChristiNi,
thanks a lot for your precious help!!
At this point I dare to ask you another question…..
I’m using a menu with several submenus and the main items were created as categories while actual pages from submenus were created as pages.
Example: Services (category): Service 1, Service 2, Service 3 (all pages).
Now if I click Services I’m redirected to a blog’s post generic page (it shouldn’t be a clickable link…).
How to make the upper items of a menu with submenus (what I called category, and in my example Services) not clickabe and not linked to any other page?
Again thanks
Great questions JustCurious,
You’re welcome. I’m happy to help1
This trips up a lot of people who are just getting started with WordPress. Categories are groupings you want to use for your various types of posts. It sounds like what you want is simply a custom menu heading/title for your navigation menu. Are you using a particular plugin to create your navigation menu or the built in menu system in WordPress? Also, is this menu in your sidebar or near the header of your page? A screenshot of your page or at least the name of the theme you are using would be helpful as well.
Thanks!
Hello again JustCurious,
I’m sorry but since that’s a paid theme, the theme developer is probably the best source of information. I’m not sure if you can make custom menus with that theme, but that’s the functionality you want. If your theme doesn’t let you do that, you may want to look into a plugin for cutom menus:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=custom+menu&sort=
Hope this helps!
CristiNi,
problem solved using Custom links in the dashboard: I put single hash mark (#) for the URL.
Thanks for your help
Hi JustCurious,
I’m glad you were able to get this resolved. If you have time, please mark this topic as resolved for others who may have this or a similar question.
Thanks!
