It’s really frustrating to develop WordPress sites and edit code in your chosen development program – but be unable to configure the rest of the bits that make up the website; posts, pages, images, menu’s etc.
This plugin will allow you to code your site in your editor of choice (NetBeans, Eclipse etc) and preview your WordPress theme in your local development environment, but you will be able to send those changes across to your server, activate it behind the scenes and get it looking right while your website users are still coming and going on your original website none the wiser. Maintenance Mode plugins are great but you lose visitors while your site is down!!
Now you can install the Out Of Sight Editor plugin instead and allow your users to continue accessing your site as normal, while you work on the layout and content behind the scenes. When this plugin is active any changes you make within your WordPress dashboard will NOT be visible to other visitors to your website.
Work in preview mode within your dashboard until your edits are finished and when you are ready set it live to the public and the new edits will then be displayed showing all your changes: posts, pages, themes, menus, links, settings and more!
The following list highlights some of the things that you can change within your dashboard that won’t show up to your visitors until you exit Preview Mode.
Add New Post/Page
Delete Post/Page
Edit Post/Page
Add Navigation Menu
Change Themes
Change Appearance Settings
Activate/Deactivate Plugins
Activate/Deactivate Widgets
Change Post/Page Layouts
Add/Edit/Delete Links
Change Settings such as;
Permalink Structure
Site Title
Site Tagline
Site Visibility (aka privacy)
Most other items under the Settings Menu
bbPress Forum modifications (if bbPress is installed)
This list isn’t exhaustive, there are many other settings that will be covered by this plugin too.
This plugin IS multisite compatible.
Limitations To Use
This plugin works at the WordPress database level. If your theme, or some other plugin that you might be using operates outside of the WordPress database (for example by writing a custom CSS file to the file-system) then this plugin cannot assist with that. You will still need to use a Maintenance Mode type of plugin in this instance. Most themes and plugins do use the standard WordPress database.