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I'm rebuilding a website for a friend and looking for a free WordPress plugin that can display an 'Under Construction,' 'Maintenance Mode,' or 'Coming Soon' page as the homepage. Ideally, it should also allow me to provide a live preview of the site via a secret link or similar feature.
I’ve already tried the https://wordpress.org/plugins/under-construction-page/ plugin and created a few pages for her, but it looks like I need to upgrade to the paid version to share a private preview of the pages.
Does anyone know of a free alternative that offers these features?
Is the site already live? You understand that using such plugins blocks Google from indexing the site?
How about just design a new page that says coming soon and make it the home page. Make sure you hide the navigation options.
Then you can redesign the other pages, and use the “password protect” publish option in core WordPress. Give each page the same simple password so they can view them.
When I refresh sites for people, I leave everything alone and build new pages like /home-2, /services-2, etc, all password protected.
When they are approved I will make this the original /home, /services pages.
This way the main site stays mostly the same and visible to users while you redesign in the background.