Hi all!

I'm working on developing a website (behind the scenes) using Headway Theme. Ran into some sticking points because I was going to either use IP Deny in a .htaccess file - or I was going to just put an index.html (under construction landing page) in my domain folder...which that worked great until I tried to access headway's visual editor. So to make long story...longer I had to get with Hostgator and we came up with the following work around.

I needed to create a sub-domain - (example: primary domain of cupcakes4you.com became developer.cupcakes4u.com). (this is a fictitious domain for purpose of example.)

So...now I'm able to develop "behind the scenes" on the sub-domain and the great plan was that once I'm done I'll simply move my WP files back to the primary domain. Works great until you realize that any links to images and probably on-page anchor text links, won't work once I move the files because the URL's will still have the sub-domain in the URL.

So...I would love to get some other thoughts on how I can accomplish this. The guy at Hostgator said I'd need to use "relative links" instead of absolute...but I have no clue how to do that.

Headway recommends a plug-in called "theme test drive"...but that didn't work at all. Everyone could still see my site when I tried to use it.

Thanks tons for any help.

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Pam Blackman - The Process Coach
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Hi again Pam,
Did someone actually tell you they could see the test drive site while you were working on it? If you've logged in and used theme test drive, your site is going to show up for you with the new theme until you switch it back, but other people landing on your page should see the old theme still.
If other people are seeing the test site while your working on it, then the fix for creating on a sub-domain and then moving the files after the site is ready is a plug-in called Search and Replace. You can search for all instances of the sub-domain address and replace it with the new location.

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~Tina Marie Hilton of Clerical Advantage
& founder of VA Survival School

Hi Tina!

Yes...that's what I was told. :-)
Thanks!!! I'll try search & replace.

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Pam Blackman - The Process Coach
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