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What are the best practices for maintaining and deploying several parent themes?
I've been trying to commission a freelancer to make me a custom website and hit a roadblock when I said I wanted a parent theme. The freelancer strongly preferred to make a child theme based on his ...
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How to Display Frontend CSS for Administrator only
I've been asked to restyle the css of a WordPress website frontend.
The website can't be in maintenance mode while working on it as it must stay up and running all the time.
I assume that if I can add ...
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Redirect entire website to a single page
I need to redirect a whole WordPress site to a single WordPress page.
A sort of maintenance mode, but the redirect has to go to a published WordPress page. Unfortunately, the maintenance page I need ...
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Custom maintenance page
Is there a way to add a custom maintenance page from theme folder?
I have the code for the activate maintenance mode but i can't get the styling..
function activate_maintenance_mode() {
if ( ...
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How to limit WordPress pages during updates?
I will be doing upgrades to the design and content of my Wordpress site. During this time I only want the homepage to be available. Is there a good way to lock this down (through a plug-in, etc.).
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How can I let users open the site for other visitors?
I'm a bit new to wordpress and php and I'm trying to create a site where users have the possibility to change the appearance of the index page for other visitors. This could perhaps be done with ...
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Htaccess maintenance page rules that actually work with WordPress?
I am trying to take my site offline for maintenance but only allow access to my IP address. However I can only ever manage to produce an internal server error. I don't understand how it exactly what ...
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Is there a maintenance mode in Wordpress core?
If I want to put a Wordpress (3.2.1) site into Maintenance mode, is it still necessary to use a plugin? If so, is this a good option?
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I'm hiding site with index.htm but now I can't get to index.php
I am trying to work on a new Wordpress-site on the web. I am 'hiding' the site by putting up index.htm in the home-directory so that visiters see this html with some text about 'maintenance' and not ...
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How to handle support for a non-technical client [closed]
I am wondering how most WP freelancers handle general maintenance for their non-technical clients.
A small to medium sized business may have someone with technical knowledge who can handle upgrades, ...
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Editing Pages that Have Already Been Published
Sorry for the simple question.
I've published a page. Let's say that I now need to make changes to the page. Can I simply edit it, after it's been published? Or should I use a maintnenace mode? If ...
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Programatically switch page template?
I want to build a very simple toggle for taking my site down into a maintenance mode. To do that, I want to add a admin area to define a template that is the maintenance page, and allow that page to ...
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Should I add sharing buttons using a plugin or directly in my theme files?
This question relates to plugins for Linkedin Share buttons, Twitter Tweet buttons, and Facebook Like buttons.
These are for blog posts on a WordPress blog which is at a subdomain of a site that is ...
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Can plugins become obsolete?
I presume WordPress plugins are made by third parties.
Do plugins have to be kept up to date with WordPress upgrades?
Can plugins become obsolete?
If they do become obsolete, say with plugins for ...
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How to implement a 'fail whale' to graciously limit server load (Solutions for system capacity governing)
With our website, we want to make it so that if the site is about to go down, it instead displays a custom 503 (based on a server load limit set by us). Is there something that can handle this that is ...
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How can I permanently cache or “archive” a WP blog without needing future maintenance
I have a client who has an annual complete makeover of their website design and content, but they still want their old sites available to view (each with that year's respective design/CSS).
Once ...
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Plugin upgrade issue
I'm updating plugins installed on my wordpress site. However, for almost an hour, it's still doing maintenance mode. When I accidentally hit reload, I got BIG white screen of death saying: "Briefly ...
