[Resolved] Is building a site offline & move it to online the best practice? How to do it?

[Imran]

Hello,

Pardon me. I’ve just started building my site and completed only 2% of it. Now I feel that I should build it offline to avoid making interruptions to others if someone goes then online. Am I thinking in the right way? Should I build it offline and then move it online? Does it affect SEO? How to do that? Do most people do it? What is the best practice?

Thanks,
Imran

[David]

Hi there,

simplest thing to do is install a Maintenance Mode / Coming Soon Plugin.
This will stop users from visiting the site and more importantly stop Search Engines from indexing the site.

When it’s ready simply deactivate the coming soon.

[Imran]

Understood. Thanks for the help. Do you recommend any plugin for it?

[David]

They all do pretty much the same , so probably best to go for the most well reviewed one:

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/coming-soon/

[Imran]

Got it. Thank you.

[David]

You’re welcome

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