Quick Way to Deactivate An Entire Blog?

[Planet13]

Hi there, Everyone:

Instead of going in and deleting every post / category / page, is there a quick way to deactivate a wordpress blog in one click?

Thanks in advance.

[creeking]

hosted in your own webspace, or on a free blog site?



can you password protect it?

[rocknbil]

Huh. I thought for sure there would be a setting for this, doesn't look like there is.

Play around with an .htaccess rule. Create a "disabled" web page and

ReWriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^blog.* /blog-disabled.html [L]

If you still need to get to admin,

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !wp\-admin
RewriteRule ^blog.* /blog-disabled.html [L]

You may want to consider search engine requests with a temporary redirect header

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !wp\-admin
RewriteRule ^blog.* /blog-disabled.html [R=307,L]

The requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI. Since the redirection MAY be altered on occasion, the client SHOULD continue to use the Request-URI for future requests.

The above are not working, copy and paste mod_rewrite rules and they are typed on the fly. The are intended as ideas for using mod_rewrite for a simple way to disable your blog.

[lorax]

There is a plugin (name escapes me but it should be easy to find) that will allow you to post a temp top page (all requests from non-admin users will be directed to this page).

Or did you mean remove instead of disable?

[Planet13]

Thanks everyone:

I do mean disable (as opposed to remove).

It appears there might be a few different ways to do this. so I will look through them.

Thanks again, everyone.

[hal12b]

If you host it.... move all files to a folder.... put a new index.php file up with "Under construction or whatever on it...

or just a redirect on top of the first php file the site loads.

I haven't used wordpress in a while.. these are random thoughts.

[rocknbil]

The only problem with that is all the sub-pages in the blog/WP site will 404, see 307 above.

[bunltd]

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