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How do I create an Under Construction, Maintenance or Coming Soon page?
How do I create an Under Construction, Maintenance or Coming Soon page?

Hide your website while you're still working on it.

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Written by Pixieset Team
Updated over a week ago

Are you looking for a way to hide your website while you're working on it? There are currently no options to create a dedicated under construction, maintenance or coming soon page. We recommend one of the following three options:

  1. Add a Site-Wide Password to hide your website

  2. Unpublish your website

  3. Keep only your Homepage online

 

Option 1: Add a Site-Wide Password

One way to hide your website is to add a Site-Wide Password. To do this, follow the steps below:

  1. Go to your Website dashboard

  2. Then click on Settings icon > Advanced

  3. Enter a password into Site-Wide Password

  4. Hit Publish to publish your changes

With a the site-wide password setup, only visitors with the password will be able to access pages on your website. You can learn more here: Privacy Options for your Website

 

Option 2: Unpublish your website

If you're not ready to show off your website, you can also consider unpublishing your website all together. To do this, follow the steps below:

  1. Go to your Website dashboard

  2. Then click on Settings icon > Advanced

  3. Click on the Unpublish Site button

With the site unpublished, your website will be taken offline. Visitors will be see a Page Not Found page as if your website does not exist.

Option 3: Keep only your Homepage online 

You could consider changing the visibility of all pages on your site to 'Offline' with the exception of your homepage containing your under construction or maintenance information.

  1. Add your custom under construction message to the homepage of your website.

  2. Take other pages offline by hovering over the page name in the left hand side builder panel and clicking More (...) > Settings

  3. Under 'Page Visibility' toggle this to 'Offline'

  4. Repeat for all pages

  5. Publish your site

Your visitors will now only see the homepage with your under construction message. All other pages will be offline. You can now continue working on your site in the background. Once you're ready to go live, you can publish the changes.

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