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Joseph France · 5 months ago

Huge help. Looking for this exact solution. Thanks!

Jp · 5 months ago

Awesome. And might I add, it's completely ridiculous that you just posted this days before I needed to find it. OK, I get that's the nature of chance, but still, it's ridiculous. Thank you!

Laurie · 5 months ago

I use the Maintenance Mode Plugin, which is a simple activate/deactivate on the plugin page in your settings... no other steps required. It will automatically put up a generic - down for maintenance - page, or you can do a 503 redirect to a custom page of your choice. Anyone who is logged in will still have full access to all of your other pages for theme testing, which I agree is a huge help when you're not ready to go live but your client still needs to see things.

The plugin is available here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maintenance...

berchman · 5 months ago

Hi Laurie,
Brilliant! What a great suggestion. This helps with regard to developing custom page templates in Thesis.
When using custom templates in Thesis its necessary to have "custom template" selected in the page settings dialogue. Well if you are using the default theme this is not an option and for Thesis developers (like me) a slight headache. I have been trying to dev custom sidebars for a client project right now and the solution I present here, while it DOES work, still requires some hoop jumping not for the faint of heart.
The maintenance mode plugin is a great addition to the toolkit.
Thanks for sharing!
Cheers,
Berchman

lisa · 2 months ago

Laurie's solution/plugin seems as if it should/would be the easier solution for me, as I'm still very much in "learning mode."

But it seems I'm even more of a novice than I realized, because I can't figure out how to make the 503 page work, or maybe I'm just not putting it in the right place. I've been googling all night, but googling "503 error page" is an exercise in frustration, lol.

One3rdNerd · 5 months ago

Hey Berchman, nice tutorial, very useful, and couldnt agree more. I particularly like "However, when dealing with WordPress, or any database driven website, moving databases, encoded URL’s and all the supporting files around to different directories can be laborious and create the opportunity for errors when you are ready to launch—at that stage of the process who needs more work! Not me." ME TOO!

Bo · 3 months ago

This rocks! Job well done, sir, job well done.

Opal · 3 months ago

Great tutorial! Duh question: What is your recommended way of including CSS within an HTML file to later convert to a PHP?

berchman · 3 months ago

I would include it inline inside the HTML file. Hope this helps.

john · 1 month ago

I upgraded to Thesis 1.6 on my test site and I no longer have the option to select a custom template under the attributes section - anyone else having this problem?

john · 1 month ago

In case anyone else has this problem the solution was to enable a different theme and then re-enable Thesis.

Sunny Bhasin · 1 month ago

Hello Berchman :)
I would like to tell about one more wordpress plugin from which you can create and customize the coming soon page on the homepage of your blog.
Have a look
http://tech18.com/how-to-create-customized-comi...

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