Title: Work offline?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Work offline?

 *  [Zappy123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zappy123/)
 * (@zappy123)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/work-offline/)
 * So, Ive bought a domain and also installed WordPress. WordPress has automatically
   put out a little webpage for me on my domain.
 * How can I now peacefully choose a theme and work with the site offline (or in
   maintenance mode?) not letting the whole world see my trials and errors? 🙂
 * And a minor question: I would only like to have a “Coming soon” sign on my page,
   how do I do that? I saw there was a plugin for this, but that cant be necessary?
 * Thank you!

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 *  Thread Starter [Zappy123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zappy123/)
 * (@zappy123)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/work-offline/#post-2700170)
 * Watching a tutorial now. Should I download “Instant wordpress” maybe?! Seems 
   to run locally on my computer and therefore lets me try things just locally. 
   Right?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/work-offline/#post-2700173)
 * I’ve heard a lot of good things about Instant WordPress (although I’ve not used
   it myself) so I think it’s definitely worth a try.
 *  [Amy Hendrix (sabreuse)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sabreuse/)
 * (@sabreuse)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/work-offline/#post-2700179)
 * You will need a plugin to put up a “coming soon” page on your actual site, but
   it’s not at all hard to do. There are lots of plugins to choose from: I like 
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-coming-soon-page/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-coming-soon-page/)
   but I’ve used several others, and they’re all easy to set up. In all cases, you’ll
   be able see the site and do whatever you need to do there, but visitors will 
   only see your coming soon page (which you can customize however you like).
 * This is really in addition to working locally, rather than _instead of_. Even
   if you’ve done a lot of your work on your own machine, you may find that you 
   need a little time with the curtains drawn to get everything set the way you 
   want it on the real site.
 * (I’ve never tried Instant WordPress, but I’ve also heard good reviews.)
 *  Thread Starter [Zappy123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zappy123/)
 * (@zappy123)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/work-offline/#post-2700215)
 * Thank you guys for the fast replies!
 * Esmi>> Ill give it a try then! 🙂
 * Amy>> Thank you for a great reply, its much appreciated! Ill try your plugin,
   and good thing you explained that last part because Im new to this. (And I guess
   youll hear more from me…) 🙂

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/work-offline/#post-2700215)
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