underConstruction
The underConstruction plugin allows you to put up temporary page that users who are not logged in will see. You can use this to build a site live, that can only be viewed by users who are logged in, while others will get the ‘Under Construction’ page during construction
Questions? Leave them in the comments, and I’ll get back to you asap
If you like this plugin, please rate it at wordpress.org! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/underconstruction/
July 8th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Hi
Perfect plugin it seems, for what I need, I tried it once and was redirected to the temp page I setup, however now it stopped working and the under devpt site is shown to anybody. I may have upgraded to WP 2.8 in the meantime but not even sure. Anything I overlooked ? Thanks.
July 8th, 2009 at 8:15 am
Other note: when trying to update the contents of “Put in this area the HTML you want to show up on your front page” I simply get the same original one I put in, it does not seem to be updated. Related ? thanks.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Hi there Denis.
For your first comment, the under development message should be shown to everyone, the idea is to make it so nobody except you can see the completed site until you’re ready for them to. So, if I read it right, that’s how it’s supposed to work! If I missed something let me know :)
For your second comment, thanks!! That was a bug that’s corrected in the new version I’m posting today.
July 17th, 2009 at 4:11 am
Thx for the plugin. It is simple and neat, and does the job. It held my site while putting in content for opening day, while I also acquired enough experience with wordpress, to be able to handle the backstage.
I actually came here looking for a donate button, as I will be erasing your plugin, now that I have the site live.
Thx again.
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Hey I activated your plugin, its been a great help while we fix some authentication problems. However I am using a MU Wordpress Interface, when i want to deactivate the Under Construction plugin , the page wont dissappear. I even deleteed the plugin all together from my plugin folder but it remains on the screen. Any suggestions? Thanks
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Hey Jon, I’d say that you should make sure your server isn’t doing any kind of caching. Unfortunately, this plug wasn’t designed or tested with Wordpress MU, so I’m not really sure what to tell you! I’m fairly certain that your server is caching though,so if you’re running a plugin for that, see if you can find an option to clear out the cache
August 1st, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Hi,
Your underConstruction plugin is just PERFECT!
I was looking for something like that since forever! It’s pretty and simplier than a HTACCESS restricted access!
Thanks!
August 6th, 2009 at 6:48 am
Simple but sweet.
Thanks!
August 26th, 2009 at 8:25 am
@jeremy.massel Says:
July 16th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
I’m getting the newest version, great I could help debug. My issue was that the under development site, not page, was being shown, ie visitors were not seeing the “under construction” page, but were in fact visiting the site we were working on. Poorly worded from me I guess. Not sure if I can reproduce, plugin suspended after it did its job, as our site is finished. Best regards, thanks for the work.
September 20th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
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September 21st, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Hi Jeremy. Love the plugin and have been using on several sites since I discovered it. However, I am currently working on a site that I cannot seem to get the plugin to work with. I have limited plugins added to this point and can’t figure out for the life of me why it won’t. Help.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
One quick question;
What happens to people who are already logged on? Is there a way to log them out so they are forced to see the under construction screen?
October 8th, 2009 at 2:14 am
Hi, great plugin, however… I enabled the plugin and then logged out of the site to see what it would look like to the outside world, but now I cannot get back into the admin area on that computer (luckily my laptop still is logged in). How can I get into the admin area from a machine that is not already logged in as this plugin overwrites all pages, including the wp-admin area!
November 8th, 2009 at 6:33 am
I have the same problem as James, I logged out and couldn’t log back in again. It’s caused (in my case) by using the Theme My Login plugin which uses a different url for the login page and it isn’t recognised by UnderConstruction.
November 13th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Great Plugin. Can this be modified so that I can add a button/link to the temp. page that goes to the under construction site for those who aren’t logged in? Basically, at that point this could act as a splash page.
Is there something simple in the code I could change for this?
November 17th, 2009 at 5:58 am
Hi there. I would like to use a backround image on the page. What would I add to the CSS and where?
November 25th, 2009 at 4:03 am
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February 5th, 2010 at 11:48 am
I love this plug-in. It’s so simple and easy to use. For one site, I even use it to automatically redirect to another site. I love being able to put whatever code I want on the placeholder page. I use the plug-in for maintenance, too.
A suggestion, altho I would use this plug-in even if you didn’t make any changes:
The plug-in has to be activated before you can paste in your custom html under settings. That means until you get the code in under settings, people who are coming to the page see what? I’d like an on/off switch under settings so I could leave the plug-in activated all the time, and get my HTML in before I turn the plug-in on.
When I enter something into the search box and hit search, the page displayed isn’t my search page, it’s my underconstruction page. This could be a problem on my end, still testing.
Thanks again for the simple, great plug-in.
February 5th, 2010 at 11:50 am
I just found the solution to the search problem, and it was on my searchform.php, nothing to do with the plugin. My action for the form referred to my web address without the “www.” When I added the “www” it worked fine.
February 19th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Anyway you could add a feature to select if you want to the send the standard “200 OK” HTTP status code, or send a “503 Service Unavailable” HTTP status code? This would help so Google does not spider your construction page if you send a 503 status code.
March 5th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
that’s a good idea, and something that *should* find it’s way into the next release. Hoping to have it out by the end of the month to coincide with 3.0
February 25th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Thank you very much for the plugin, it’s GREAT!
One thought/suggestion, is it possible to use/display the Title and Description tags?
March 5th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
that’s something that’ll be in the next one :)
March 1st, 2010 at 5:44 am
Hi!
I really like your plugin! Yesterday it stopped working, I think it was when I upgraded to the latest verion of WordPres.
Are you by any chance planning an update och underConstruction?
Regards,
Henrik
March 5th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
if you’re using the 3.0 alpha, it’s probably going to break. As far as i know it should work with 2.9.x, since they aren’t making any core changes. I’ll look into it though! Thanks for the heads up
March 5th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
I just checked it out, and it works great on this site with 2.9.2 installed. I would say check if your theme implements the get_header function. If not, the plugin won’t work. As well, make sure you aren’t logged in. If you are logged in, you won’t be able to see the under construction page!
March 5th, 2010 at 8:18 am
Can I have a look at your “under construction” plugin webpage? I mean how does the page looks like.
March 5th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
At the moment it’s a grey background with white text, but you can use whatever HTML you want. The next version will have a prettier default page. I’ll also include a screenshot in the next update
March 5th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
When WordPress 3.0 is released, there will be support for it. At the moment it’s still a few weeks away, so I haven’t updated it for 3.0 yet