• I would like to redirect all incoming traffic from my blog to my forum as I work on my blog. My blog will be down for a couple hours and I dont want anyone to arrive to an empty page

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  • Honestly, sending visitors to a site that they aren’t expecting or don’t want to go to in the first place is a REALLY bad idea, people don’t like being deceived. Just remember, everyone is always one click away from leaving your site and not coming back.

    Your best option would be to create a basic index.html file with something like:

    ——————————————————————-
    Down for maintenance, we will be back online on the [whatever date]
    Sorry for any inconvenience.

    In the meantime please feel free to have a look at our forum.
    ——————————————————————-

    Make the word “forum” the link that open in the SAME tab/window and keep the whole thing simple, people don’t care why your down and after reading that you are will lose almost all interest in staying on your site.

    Good luck mate.

    Thread Starter slamd

    (@slamd)

    its not a totally different site, Its my sub domain. I was thinking about going into options and changing the blogs link to the forums link. Would that be a good idea?

    I was thinking about going into options and changing the blogs link to the forums link. Would that be a good idea?

    If you mean the WordPress Blog address (URL), then no, it’s not a good idea.

    Thread Starter slamd

    (@slamd)

    thanks but may I ask why that wouldn’t be good? I know how to change it back and this is going to be a temporary fix.

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