Title: Site Development
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Site Development

 *  Resolved [spellmankm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spellmankm/)
 * (@spellmankm)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-development/)
 * Hi,
 * What is the best way to develop a WordPress theme without it displaying as the
   index page? I would prefer that the index page is an “under construction” page
   while I work on the theme.
 * Thanks,
    spellmank

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-development/#post-521068)
 * Maybe this plugin:
    [http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/maintenance-mode-plugin/](http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/maintenance-mode-plugin/)
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-development/#post-521069)
 * I generally just put up an index.html file while in dev mode (on a live site –
   mostly though I develop using xampp locally) – if you WANT to access the wp blog
   for dev mode, you can, but anyone else just gets the generic page (at least on
   my servers, where any index.html or index.htm always takes precedence over index.
   anything else….)
 *  Thread Starter [spellmankm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spellmankm/)
 * (@spellmankm)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-development/#post-521158)
 * Great, thanks for the tip!
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-development/#post-521280)
 * You’re very welcome. Hope it works well for you!

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