WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Rebuild site while maintaining current one? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/rebuild-site-while-maintaining-current-one WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Rebuild site while maintaining current one? en Tue, 21 May 2013 14:38:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 brossbert on "Rebuild site while maintaining current one?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/rebuild-site-while-maintaining-current-one#post-1060075 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 12:32:03 +0000 brossbert 1060075@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks a lot timethief!

]]> timethief on "Rebuild site while maintaining current one?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/rebuild-site-while-maintaining-current-one#post-1057553 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:57:35 +0000 timethief 1057553@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You can make the whole blog "private" and change the theme and work on it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

Alternatively you can create a static front page and use it temporarily. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

However, I wouldn't do either on my blogs as traffic is important to me and I don't want to turn any visitors away. What I would do is change themes and work on the blog while it's public.

Changing themes is easy to do and no data is ever lost. However, a new theme may have different sidebars and footers for widgets. You can go here Dashboard > Appearance > Themes and select a new theme and activate it. After you change your theme all you need to do is go here Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets > Inactive Widgets and re-install them where you want them to appear. The widget contents and settings will be the same as they were prior to changing themes.

]]> brossbert on "Rebuild site while maintaining current one?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/rebuild-site-while-maintaining-current-one#post-1057546 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:52:37 +0000 brossbert 1057546@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I want to start from scratch. My blog site is my church's website and it's time for a redesign. I'd like to have a new theme, new pages, menus, etc, but keep the same domain name. I'm wondering if there is a way to build the new site "behind closed doors" while keeping the old one up. Make sense???

here's the url: http://dalewoodumc.wordpress.com/

Thanks for any help!

]]> timethief on "Rebuild site while maintaining current one?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/rebuild-site-while-maintaining-current-one#post-1057520 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:32:54 +0000 timethief 1057520@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ What do you mean by rebuild?
Which blog are you referring to (post the URL please)?

]]> brossbert on "Rebuild site while maintaining current one?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/rebuild-site-while-maintaining-current-one#post-1057514 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:25:43 +0000 brossbert 1057514@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm getting ready to rebuild our site and wondering if it's possible to do so while keeping the current site up and running.
Blog url: http://dalewoodumc.wordpress.com/

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