Under Construction
If you’re not ready to launch your site just yet, you can take your site offline and show your visitors an “Under Construction” message instead.
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- Create a new page by going to Pages and click Add New. (If you imported demo content, the page will automatically be created for you.)
- In the far righthand corner under Page Attributes (Template, if 5.8 and above) locate Templates.
- From the dropdown menu, select Maintenance Mode Page Template.
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- In the body of your post, write the message you want displayed to your visitors.
- Upload an image under Featured Image to be used as the background image of the page.
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- Social media links will be added automatically. This setting is located under Theme Options > Social Media Icons in the Customizer.
- To turn maintenance mode on, go to Customizer > [Theme Name] Options > General Options and scroll down to “Miscellaneous.” Next, select “on” at the bottom.
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- You’re done. 😉