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

important note about WP 3.0
As of version 1.04, underConstruction supports the 3.0-alpha release. As we get closer to the release date, I’ll continue to test, but it appears that this will work great on single-site blogs ONLY.

Multi-blog users, read on. I’m thinking about building in support for the Network feature of WP 3.0 but it’s not worth it right now, due to the ridiculously sparse documentation and the fact that I’m not sure if anyone would actually use it. If you’re a multi-blog user who REALLY needs this to be available, sound off in the comments so I know this is important to you.

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/

182 Responses to “underConstruction”

  • John Says:

    Hi Jeremy,
    I’m having some of the same issues I’ve read others posting…yet I can’t seem to find the solution! I have installed this plugin. it works great…on secondary pages. not the main page itself. I need this to be on the main page when visitors come to the site. instead, you can see the first page of my wordpress, then “about” or “services” pages when clicked on show the under construction page. any help?

  • sandra Says:

    I have two blogs and don’t seem to be able to activate the under-construction plugin on both. Is that because both sites are hosted in the same place?

    Love the plugin by the way, looks absolutely fab, so thanks for that.

    Kind regards
    Sandra

  • Gerry Humphrey Says:

    Working fine for me =)

    Suggestion: In addition to white listing IP addresses, it would be handy to be able to white list a domain name.

    For example, if I signed up for no-ip.com free DNS service I could have a domain name like wpdev.no-ip.com that would be automatically updated with my IP address as it changes (as I have a dynamic IP address.) It would be some additional overhead, but since the site is “blocked” it won’t be much.

    http://www.no-ip.com/services/managed_dns/free_dynamic_dns.html

  • Ryan Says:

    Hi Jeremy, I loaded your under construction plugin and it was working great until today. I disabled it to go live and the ‘under construction’ page won’t go away. I deactivated the plugin and even removed it from my server, yet it still exists, and I cannot get my website back. Can you help out here please. – Ryan

    • Gerry Humphrey Says:

      Ryan, Clear your W3 Cache (or disabled it until you are sure the site is running OK)

    • Gerry Humphrey Says:

      Sorry.. WP-Super-Cache.. not W3. In any case, that is the root of most problems when working on websites, the Cache plug ins should be disabled until you have been live a little bit, so you can make sure everything is working the way it should instead of dealing with a cached copy. WP-Super-Cache has cached your underConstruction page.

  • Ryan Says:

    Hi Gerry, Thanks. Yes, it was the WP-Super Cache. That did the trick. – Ryan

  • nick Says:

    Hi there, I think I am having a similar problem in that i have used the plug in, and now deactivated it now the site is live, I can see the site, but google is struggling to get past the index page? Any ideas. If its the same isssue as the w3 cache referenced above, how do you clear it? (I am not using WP super cache) thanks

  • Jacob Gryn Says:

    Is there a way that I can allow certain pages to be viewed by the public (i.e., exempt certain pages or posts from the under construction)?

  • RobinT Says:

    Hi Jeremy,

    I love the plugin. However I am unable to use “Under Construction” Plugin with “inline theme”?

  • MisterE Says:

    Hello, great plugin.
    One feature request: love to see a check in the options to enable a login link to the page.
    thanks in advance!!

    • Susan Says:

      MisterE… if you use the option for “Display a custom page using your own HTML” you can create your own link… it will be on a totally white page unless you do some html formatting, but all you would need is to copy and paste the html code into that field:

      Login

      You would need to replace YOURWEBSITE.COM above with your actual website URL. If you wanted any text before or after that, you can just type that in. ALSO… IF you put WordPress in a special subdirectory, you would need that ADD that to that link, too. (In other words, you just add /YOUR_WORDPRESS_SUBDIRECTORY to the end of the URL.

      If you want to do a page that has some formatting in it and looks a little nicer, you can try using NVU– which is free website page design software.

      That IS a great suggestion of something to add to this plugin, though!

    • Susan Says:

      Oops… that “Login” was NOT supposed to show up as a link (didn’t think it would do that)…

      OK… so this is what you type in as a link, but you have to replace my ** below with nothing:

      Login

    • Susan Says:

      OK, now I feel stupid… my second comment didn’t work either– the text I am trying to show you is turning itself into a link… or course, it works perfectly, but YOU need the text– so if you just click on one of those links in my above comments, you can just see what I am trying to show you to type right in the URL bar. Goodness, sorry this got too complicated! Just ignore the whole thing! (I would delete this is I could!)

  • Vick Says:

    Hi Jeremy,

    first of all, thanks for a great plugin. I’m a complete newbie, and your plugin got me started on my very first website.

    Two questions: 1) I used custom text option for the display. Is there a way to change the font size of the body text, or to preserve extra spaces / empty lines? (The body text display font is kind of small and hard to read. Currently I have two lines in the text and although i entered an empty line between the two lines within the body text setting, the empty line is not displayed).

    2) I also installed “Fast secure contact form” plugin. Is there a way to display additional elements (such as an email contact form) on the under construction display page? I’m guessing i will have to use the third display option of using a custom page with html coding? If that is correct – can you suggest a good introductory book or website for me to learn html?

  • Susan Says:

    Thank you, thank you, thank you! Your Under Construction plugin was a perfect and EASY solution to my problem! If you’re reading this an appreciate what Jeremy has done, throw a few dollars his way! (He’s got a Donate link up at the top.)

  • Ronald Stewart Says:

    Doesn’t seem that the plug-in works with WP 3.3.1.

    (Notice before installing says it hasn’t been tested for this version.) Have you made it work in 3.3.1 or do you have a fix for that or is there a special install parameter that needs to be used OR is is necessary to go back to an earlier version of WP OR do you know of another “under construction” plug-in that has been tested with 3.3.1 and works in 3.3.1?!

    Many thanks.

    • MisterE Says:

      Hi Ronald,
      The plugin works fine here. Maybe it’s a problem with another plugin?
      And be sure you are not logged in.

  • Panagiotis Says:

    ” = I found a bug! =
    …..this is incompatible with a couple plugins out there, specifically ones that change the default login url…..”

    is there a way to cope with default login alterations? ..i’d be more than happy to donate ;)

  • Panagiotis Says:

    I’m using the GBS plug in (http://www.groupbuyingsite.com) which alters the default login url from /wp-login.php -> /account/login. When using your wonderful plug in im always redirected to my “underconstruction” page even if i try to access /account/login directly. I could send you more details and a link to the live site via email if you’d like.

  • Geoffrey Says:

    Hello,

    I am trying to use a custom HTML file for the construction page and can’t seem to figure out how to “Put in this area the HTML you want to show up on your front page”…thank you for all of your help.

  • Frankie Says:

    The plugin will not deactivate in internet explorer, even if I delete all of the files from my server. Any suggestions?

  • tships Says:

    I installed & activated it in the plugin folder, but it is not showing regardless if I am logged in or not, even if I look on my iphone. How can I be the only one it doesn’t work for? I have the latest version of WP – 3.3.1.

  • raj Says:

    hey jeremy… I have installed this underconstruction plugin…it was working well…but when i have deactivated it..i am not able to see my home page…it gives me service temporarily unavailable error …please suggest what to do…

  • raj Says:

    hey jeremy… I have installed this underconstruction plugin…it was working well…but when i have deactivated it..i am not able to see my home page…it gives me service temporarily unavailable error …please suggest what to do…

  • Bill Says:

    The ip whitelist only allows me to ad 1 IP. How do you add multiple ip’s? or is this even possible

  • Jer Says:

    Just FYI: I’ve got this working in a Multi-site 3.3.1 environment while applying the maintenance behavior to only one blog.

    The only change I had to make was in ‘ucOptions.php’ on line 155 by setting the location of the action to:

    admin_url( ‘options-general.php?page=’ . $this->mainOptionsPage) ;

    Haven’t noticed any other issues.

  • Nigel Says:

    Hi, this worked great and was really useful – but since I deactivated and deleted the files more than a week ago, my site’s still labeled in Google with “…is coming soon.” I see Google has cached the temporary page. Is there anything I can do about this?

    Many thanks for your help!

    • Jeremy Massel Says:

      Unfortunately not. I ran into this with a client’s domain displaying the parking page for many days at a time.

      The best I can suggest is use Google’s webmaster tools to set the crawl frequency as high as possible and give it 24 hours

  • Liz Carpenter Says:

    Hi, I love this plugin too…looks really professional. However, I cannot turn it off! I have even deactivated the plugin (and I don’t use Super Cache) so have now idea what to do. Help!

    • Jeremy Massel Says:

      There’s definitely some kind of caching going on. You’re not using W3 cache are you?

  • Susan Gertz Says:

    Stupid question I’m sure, but how do I login? http://www.ccemu.org/wp-login just reverts to the under construction page?

  • Susan Gertz Says:

    Jeremy,

    Boy I’m tired and have been destroying my website all afternoon. ;-( (Not your plugin, just everything I’ve been doing. That’s why I needed to hide it for a while.

    I ended up deleting the plugin via FTP. Is it a problem if i am using Buddypress?

    Susan

    Susan

  • scH Says:

    I’m a multisite admin and WOULD LOVE this plugin to work on a multisite environment. For now I’m going to have to find another solution, but none seems to have the simplicity AND flexibility that yours does.

  • Vanio Says:

    Hi,I have the same problem like scH.

    “I’m a multisite admin and WOULD LOVE this plugin to work on a multisite environment. For now I’m going to have to find another solution, but none seems to have the simplicity AND flexibility that yours does.”

    100% applies to me

  • Ignacio Says:

    Hi Jeremy.

    This is an excellent plugin. I have just one question: how can I make it visible for other user levels? I need to have it visible for an editor.

    Thanks.

  • Dave Says:

    I am using the under construction plugin. I am not using a cache plugin and when I click off the construction page does not remove itself. If I deactivate the plugin the construction page does not remove itself. Any help would be appreciated.

  • Bob Lee Says:

    I’m new to WordPress.Org and very much wanted to use your Under Construction plugin. Everything seemed to work when I installed it and activated it. However, the default Twenty Eleven theme does not show up as Under Construction.
    Can you advise…

    Thank you,

  • Mandee Says:

    The plugin has been working wonderfully until I upgraded to the newest release of WP – 3.3.2

    Now, my whitelist ip addresses do not work. I can still get in but new ip’s added to the list still get the “under construction” page.

    Is there a new version that is compatible with 3.3.2? A quick fix? anything that will help?

    Thanks, Mandee

  • Bob Lee Says:

    Okay…I figured it out. Didn’t realize I had to activate the “settings” to “enable” the Under Construction plugin before it went operational. (I’m a novice.) Anyway, it looks great.

    Thanks,

    Bob Lee

  • John Mauldin Says:

    I have to tell you I genuinely appreciate the plugin. I talked to a number of people and NO ONE could advise me how to solve the problem your Under Construction plugin solved. Felt like I had died and gone to heaven when I discovered your plugin. Thanks so much! So what email address do I paypal a donation? Why not put a donation button on your site? (paypal is already set up so you can get one directly from them!).

  • John Mauldin Says:

    Duh, saw your paypal donation button on another page. Sorry for the bother. Thanks, JM

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