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Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

Josh Ledgard — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:52:33 -0000

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Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

jp — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:41:00 -0000

I am also concerned about google/bing indexes of pages under construction that are already out there. Is there anything you can do for these issues. is there a simply way to password protect the site until it is ready!

Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

Brian Wolf — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:27:23 -0000

Thank you so much for this info! Will help quite a bit in the upcoming future.

Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

Sam — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:54:02 -0000

Hello berchman, thanks for this solution. Really practical and useful!

One thing I'm still worried about: would the pages of the site that is being developed show up in Google searches?

I'm a little hesitant to use it until then :)

Thanks in advance,
Sam

Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

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Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

Louis Vuitton handbags — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:38:52 -0000

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.

Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

Sunny Bhasin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:22:18 -0000

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-cr...

Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

john — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:47:55 -0000

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

Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

john — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:32:58 -0000

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?

Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

lisa — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:04:07 -0000

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.

Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

berchman — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:20:50 -0000

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

Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

Opal — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:59:00 -0000

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

Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

Bo — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:19:59 -0000

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

Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

One3rdNerd — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:16:59 -0000

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!

Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

berchman — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:00:32 -0000

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

Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

Laurie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:16:55 -0000

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

Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

Jp — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:46:39 -0000

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!

Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

Joseph France — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:26:30 -0000

Huge help. Looking for this exact solution. Thanks!