RossMitchell

Most themes provide a body class “logged-in”, I have used this to show/hide menu items. This could help you keep logged in sessions away from the registration screen.

Using my browser inspector I suggest something like custom CSS:

.woocommerce ul.products li.product .onsale {
 color: red;
 background-color: green;
}

Or whatever colours you choose.

Thank you for embracing the use of these threads as a community resource and feeding back your conclusions.

However may I add some additional points:
– Using the “hosts” file technique cuts you off from accessing the free SSL certificates from letsencrypt, you either need to buy a certificate OR at some later date transition your website from http to https when you take the site live.
– Some hosting providers will not let you add an ADDON domain unless the nameserver settings is already pointing to the host. In the past I have had to talk to my hosting support to circumvent this. This is apparently a security measure.

On the other hand the hosts file technique lets you leave a legacy website operating while you develop its replacement.

A lightweight way to do this is to use the WordPress tick box:
"Discourage search engines from indexing this site"
Find it on the Dashboard > Settings > Reading page.
Not a very good solution as it leaves it up to the search engine to honour your request.

A surefire way is to “Password protect” the website base directory, this is what I do in the cPanel website management tools.
– Set the domain nameservers to point to your hosting.
– The primary domain will use “public_html” folder, make all the others domains point at their own directory, cPanel will suggest that they be subdirectories of public_html but you can change this.
– Use the cPanel “autoinstall SSL” tool to fetch your free letsencrypt SSL certificates, this must be done before adding password protection. Usually this only takes minutes, if you take too long (60 or 90 days) to develop your websites you may need to revisit this step.
– Make all of your website base directories password protected. Give each a name, user and password AND write them down. Your browser will remember them if you let it.
– NOW install WordPress and develop your websites, only you and people you give the access codes to will be able to view them.
– When you are done developing be sure to untick the "Discourage search engines from indexing this site" control, remove the password protection and use the links provided by Valentine to get your sites known to the search bots.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by RossMitchell.

When loggedin you probably have a body class “logged-in”, (your theme may vary?), so customise your menu entries to add a class to each of them, say “show-loggedin” and “show-loggedout”, then add css like this:

.show-loggedin { display: none;}
.logged-in .show-loggedin { display: block;}
.show-loggedout { display: block;}
.logged-in .show-loggedout { display: none;}

Firstly are you sure that
http://localhost/wordpress
Is your correct address ?

If it is then try and load:
http://localhost/wordpress/readme.html
It should give you a page telling you about wordpress. It being an “.html” file makes it an easy test of your install as it will work even without a database or PHP server. If it does not work then your address is likely wrong. Keep working until the readme file loads.

Also suggest that you seek support from XAMPP about getting the readme file to load.

There is another way.
Keep the old site hosted where it is.
The domain name will be updated to point to the new squarespace hosted site.

The trick is to NOT USE the DNS system to lookup your domain name WHEN you want to view the OLD site.
Say that your domain name is mysite.co
Get the IP address of your old site host, say it is a.b.c.d
Do this by putting lines like this into the “hosts” file of your computer, details on hosts file here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_%28file%29

a.b.c.d mysite.co
a.b.c.d www.mysite.co

Now on this computer only when you browse to mysite.co, your browser will send the request to your old host at a.b.c.d, and it will serve your site.
When you want to view your new site you comment out the two lines you added to the hosts file.

Hi cmncmn,
No I don’t need to teamviewer with you.
What I do in your situation, where I want my client to see my localhost development, is that we BOTH start teamviewer, then with the client on the phone or skype chat, I get them to login and remote control my computer, they see my screen. I get to talk them through the demonstration, I see how they react to the menus and controls etc. I very much get to control the demo, at the end I disconnect the teamviewer session.