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/
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
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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.
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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?
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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
March 22nd, 2010 at 10:06 am
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April 3rd, 2010 at 10:23 am
Hello, this plugin seems to not allow javascript. It replaces ‘ with '
Is there a way to fix this? Trying to do a mailchimp pop-up on the under construction page.
http://www.levyracing.com/wordpress
April 3rd, 2010 at 2:17 pm
OK, obviously I need to say that the ‘ (single quote) in the javascript becomes
'when it is rendered.April 3rd, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Wow, I cannot get that to display properly.>>>> & # 0 3 9 ;
April 3rd, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Hey John, the message came through all right. I’ll post a fix for this today. In the meantime, using double quotes instead of singles should also fix the problem :)
April 3rd, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Thanks Jeremy! By the way, there are several plugins that are supposed to do what yours does. I like yours the best. It is perfect for what I need it to do.
Yeah, I’m not much with .js but I figured it out just as you posted your reply. Too many variables when you get all the plugins you need installed.
Thanks for your help!
April 4th, 2010 at 12:29 am
Ok, next question… I had been building version 2.0 of the site in root/wordpress/. I moved the root of the 2.0 site to the root directory while keeping the rest of the wordpress install in the /wordpress directory. Now when I go to the site, I get the underConstruction page even when logged in. Can I fix this?
April 4th, 2010 at 7:27 am
Hi,
Is it possible to add a form to collect user name and email to let visitors know when the website is available ?
I can make a custom under contruction page with an html form, but where can I write some php code to email form submition to me ?
Regards,
Ed
April 4th, 2010 at 8:58 am
@Ed, sign up for Mailchimp.com. They allow free accounts for up to 500 subscribers (I believe). They also allow easy-to-implement subscribe forms. See mine before the stie goes live at http://www.levyracing.com
I’ve used several subscription email systems. Mailchimp is top notch.
April 17th, 2010 at 8:00 am
I have just installed your plugin and it works beautifully for the main URL (constructlegal.com.au) but doesn’t seem to work for the URL that is redirected(constructlegal.com.au). Is this a problem with the way the URL is redirected – or something I am not doing right with your plugin?
Cheers,
Suzie
July 1st, 2010 at 4:33 am
Hi, this is a great plug in and was great for developing my website before it goes live, however, when I disable the plugin so that the whole site is viewable again without log in, the website url keeps going to the log in page, I deactivated and I also deleted the plugin, but this is still happening. I contacted my hosting to see was it a server cache and they said no, that I had to contact plug in developer. The redirect is happening somewhere in wordpress – any help on this would be really appreciated as I cant make my site live.
July 4th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
Its unlikely that this is related to the plugin, especially if you’ve deleted it.
I would recommend checking your pages are marked as private. Its probably unrelated to caching because if the page was being cached you would get redirected to the coming soon page, not the login page
Best of luck
July 5th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Fantastic plugin, saves a lot of hassles :)
Thanks!
July 9th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Hi Jeremy,
First I want to say great plugin! It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for.
The only problem I have is I cannot log into my dashboard anymore to edit my blog. The screen just says under construction!
Can you please explain to me how I can fix this problem and log into my dashboard? I would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks!
Chad
July 9th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Chad,
Try going to /wp-admin/ or wp-login.php
These links should both work
July 9th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
If anyone can please explain to me how I can log back into my blog I would really really appreciate it! Now that I have activated the plugin it just says under construction. I have no way to access my dashboard!! Someone…anyone…Please Help! Thanks so much!
Best,
Chad
July 9th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Thanks for the quick response Jeremy!
I tried both of these and they still take me to the under construction page…
Could this be because I have THEME MY LOGIN plugin activated?
I can’t even get to my dashboard to deactivate that plugin…
Any other suggestion? Thank you so much for the help!
July 9th, 2010 at 1:17 pm
That is quite likely. If you have FTP access, renaming or deleting the theme my login plugin would deactivate it. As well, if you have any plugins designed to redirect you to your homepage after login, you should deactivate that as well
July 9th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
You are a rock star my friend! Thanks for the assistance and the excellent plugin! Keep up the good work!
July 11th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
“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.”
Actually I do :) Are u still planning on working on it ? If yes, when do you think it will be ready ? Thanks
August 23rd, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Hey Bert,
I’m not sure when this will be available. The documentation still isn’t great. As soon as I can though, I’ll be adding this feature.
July 16th, 2010 at 5:35 am
Hello and thanks for this great plugin. Works great and I love the custom html feature. I am encountering a perplexing issue while the plugin is active. If I logout of admin (WP 3.0) and close browser (Mozilla 3.6.6), when I attempt to login again my password is not recognized. I get WP to reset pwd, but wondered if there is something I can do to prevent this recurring issue?
Cheers
August 23rd, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Hey Gary,
The plugin doesn’t do anything related to passwords.
You may have another plugin running that uses one of the same hooks as I do to do something funky, and the two plugins may be incompatible due to this
August 13th, 2010 at 7:55 am
I installed this plugin on a clients website while making some updates. It seemed to work great, however, since I have logged out I am now unable to access the admin area. Both wp-admin and wp-login.php take me to the coming soon page.
What gives?
August 23rd, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Bill,
Are there any other plugins running?
In particular, caching plugins can cause some strange results, and if you’re putting this page up, running a cache isn’t very helpful anyways. I’m assuming this is a result of a conflict between plugins. If you’re able to track down which one it is, let me know – I’ll see if I can work around it in a future release
August 26th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Check the french version if you need, we made a translation(without poedit).
http://ur-l.fr/?3b4bca