: How can I work on a WordPress theme already installed in the root directory? I have WordPress installed at the root level of a website. I thought it would be easy enough to have a "coming
I have WordPress installed at the root level of a website.
I thought it would be easy enough to have a "coming soon" page called default.html and edit the .htaccess file as follows:
AddHandler php5-script .php
DirectoryIndex default.html index.php
# BEGIN WordPress
# END WordPress
...so that visitors to the site are sent to the default page, and I could manually specify index.php as my destination for testing. (This isn't a high-security job.) But index.php is redirecting me to the default page. When I remove the DirectoryIndex line, the index.php file is found automatically by visitors to the site root, but... that's the page I was trying to hide.
What am I doing wrong with .htaccess and how can I get it to behave the way I want?
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I use a different (easier) method of achieving the same thing.
create a simple "coming soon" theme (I think there is one in the gallery you can modify).
install the Theme Test Drive (TTD) plugin here's the info: www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/theme-test-drive Configure TTD to send all standard users to your "coming soon" theme and you (admin user) to the design you're working on automatically
you can send links to others (non-admin users) for feedback by simply adding a url variable
when you're happy with the design simply make the new design the default and disable TTD
It's worked really well for me and might be a bit simpler for future/frequent mods than hacking .htaccess.
Good luck,
James
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