How to work on laytheme but offline?

[dc]

Hello everyone,

I've installed LayTheme.

However, I'm new to WordPress and I don't understand why I can't work offline in LayTheme. Can someone explain this to me?

As soon as LayTheme is active, I can work in the layout.

If I set the website to "Under construction" using another theme, LayTheme is naturally no longer used as the active theme and therefore not available in WordPress to work on the layout.

I have now published a "One-Page" site online.

But now I want to design and finish my website in LayTheme. Only then would I activate the LayTheme website online.

Can someone tell me how to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards, dc

[panteley]

I would suggest to create a 'Coming Soon' page. Set it as your Front Page.

.slug-coming-soon .footer {
	display:none; 
}

.slug-coming-soon .sitetitle {
	display:none; 
}

.slug-coming-soon .laynav {
	display:none; 
}

use this CSS to hide the Site Title, Menu & Footer from the 'Coming Soon' page.

Now work comfortably on your Home page, without it being visible for public.

[arminunruh]

yes! or you can use a coming soon plugin

you can also use lay theme offline:
https://laytheme.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-laytheme-website.html#download-lay-theme-and-local

but then you have to transfer that page to an online server using a plugin like duplicator or backup migration: https://wordpress.org/plugins/backup-backup/
https://laytheme.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-laytheme-website.html#get-webhosting

its much easier to just create your website online instead of offline and then moving it to an online server

[dc]

@panteley

Does this mean I can also work on the start page? However, it won't be visible online yet, right? It will just display a "Coming Soon" message?

[dc]

@arminunruh
This entails more work for me. I had assumed it was possible to simply deactivate the theme offline and work on it. Then, when I'm finished, I could just put it online. But it seems that's not how it works...

[panteley]

@dc The website will show the 'Coming Soon' page.

The 'real' Home page you will work on, can still be online, or you can set the Home page in the Editor as Private or set a password, so noone can access it beside you