Creating visible link for locked page

  • Hi! I have a domain which is locked. When users visit my URL they find a coming soon-page which tells them that the site soon will open.

    I would like to create an URL with the full page, open. For example, https://www.example.com/ is still the coming soon page, but https://www.example.com/private/ is the full open page.

    I have been given tips that I can create password-locked pages instead, but this is not exactly what I am looking for.

    Any thoughts? Thanks.

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  • What do you mean your domain is locked?

    If you are implying that you want to use some kind of way to unlock then there would be some kind of login if not your just really talking about the home page having a coming soon type functionality and a sub folder having another page.

    Can you give some more information on what you are looking for?

    Thread Starter villemz

    (@villemz)

    Thank you for the answer.

    I am using a plugin which makes my full site not open when people visit my URL, instead they come to a page that says “Site coming soon”, because my site is not fully finished.

    I would like some people to be able to enter my page without a password. Therefor i woould like to create a link, for example https://www.example.com/private/, where my full site can be accessed, without people visiting this link ending up on the coming soon-page.

    I’m not aware that that is possible. Either your site is blocked for all users or it is not. The password protect idea is what decides who can see it.

    Thread Starter villemz

    (@villemz)

    I have seen this solution, espacially on sites that have an old site and are working on a new site. For example, https://www.example.com is the old site, but if you go to https://www.example.com/w/ you visit the new site in full.

    Sure but what they are really doing is installing the whole site in a sub folder but that is not what you are really asking. You can do that but the root of your site would just be a home page. So you can build it in example.com/subfolder and put a coming soon page on example.com but then you would have to move the whole site from the example.com/subfolder to example.com when you are done.

    Thread Starter villemz

    (@villemz)

    Okay, is that hard to do?

    This will help you if you need to move it: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

    Thread Starter villemz

    (@villemz)

    Thanks for the help! Can I move my site to a .wordpress.com blog page? So i can create a free site and copy my current site to this .wordpress.com site?

    cheers

    You are limited on what you can do on a WordPress.com site vs a self hosted site and .com stuff is not supported on this forum but I’m not totally sure how that would help you given your original question.

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