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Developing a wordpress site non-public?

by marcv
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I'm switching from Magento to Wordpress for an ecommerce store (only a few products in the store) and I want to keep the new store private while in development and leave the old store public?

Any advice?
#developing #nonpublic #site #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author rufaswan
    Definitely. I mean, why risk your sales and profit?

    And, just a friendly reminder, make sure all your old URL are 301 redirect to the correspond page on your new site. It is better than sent them to 404 page and risk losing some potential sales.

    - Rufas
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  • Profile picture of the author SJL
    You have 2 options... well ok, you have more, but here's 2.

    1. Create a subdomain and install your WordPress there.
    Something like beta.yourstore.com
    And then make that folder password protected with .htaccess.

    You can do the password protection manually if you know how or if you have a cPanel then there should be a tool called "Password Protect Directories" that you can do it with.

    2. Get private development server
    There's many ways for this, but I will give you the free one, that I use myself.

    What you need is to install Apache server with PHP and MySQL to your computer.
    This isn't as hard as it may first sound like, because there is this package called XAMPP and it contains all of these and comes with phpMyAdmin also, so you can have easy access to your database. (that's the same tool your cPanel has)

    Just install the software, start up your new private development server and you are done.
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  • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
    If you're using Apache, you can create an .htaccess file with the following contents.


    order deny,allow
    deny from all
    allow from 111.111.111.111
    allow from 222.222.222.222

    Only those with the IP addresses listed will be able to access the site. You can add as many IP's as you'd like.
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    :)

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