A New WordPress Site Coming Soon! Still displayed after publishing

  • I’ve been working on this site, and I thought it’s been live for a week or so and whenever I try to view it with a browser I’m not already logged in with, I still get the “A New WordPress Site Coming Soon!” placeholder page. How do I make my site viewable to the public? I have Status: Published and Visibility: Public. I never set up a place holder widget or anything like that. Not sure what the hangup is. Any help would be appreciated.

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  • FTP into your site and look for a file named index.html located in the root. Simply rename it or delete it.

    Thread Starter atkinson

    (@atkinson)

    That didn’t work.

    You have a missing index.php file that comes with WordPress install that should be in the root.

    Did you install WP yourself or your host? Either way, you need that index.php file

    Thread Starter atkinson

    (@atkinson)

    It’s in there in the root of public_html. It’s always been there since the install a couple of weeks ago.

    This is the code:
    <?php
    /**
    * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn’t do anything, but loads
    * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
    *
    * @package WordPress
    */

    /**
    * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
    *
    * @var bool
    */
    define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);

    /** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
    require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/wp-blog-header.php’ );

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Try deactivating all of your plugins to explore whether any could be responsible. If none are, keep all plugins deactivated and switch to the Twenty Seventeen theme to check whether it’s an issue with your theme.

    I’m having this problem, too. It looks like the problem got resolved, as Dale’s site is live. How’d you fix it?

    This is simple:

    1. In your WordPress dashboard, click on Settings → General
    2. Scroll to the bottom. The last bullet should be “Bluehost Coming Soon Page”. Make sure this is OFF.

    Also, you may need to clear your browser cache to get rid of the coming soon page, if your site’s home page modification date is older than when the coming soon page was cached…

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