Newbie question – how to create website without making it live

[sboles]

I've never been able to figure out how to work on a website without making it live. I'm using Genesis and a StudioPress theme and just trying them out to see what I like best. I'm creating the site for someone else so don't want it to be live until we have it completed. It's probably a simple answer but I haven't found it yet. Any help would be appreciated.

http://www.suzanneboles.com

[andystitt829]

Hi Suzanne,

There are several ways to accomplish this. The easiest way is to download a WordPress plugin that allows you to password-protect the website so that no one without the password can see it. The most commonly used practice is to create a staging site under a sub-domain (password-protected is best here as well), so instead of your site being at http://www.yoursite.com, it'll be at something like staging.yoursite.com.

There are lots of tutorials out there about how to create a staging site. I know I've seen one at wpbeginner.com.

Andy

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[marcomancosu]

Hi Suzanne,

I use a testing domain, and once ready I migrate to the domain/server where the final website is supposed to be hosted.

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