I'm about to set up a wordpress site for a friend's agency.
For now, when accessing the site, we have an html file informing that the site is under construction.
But now that we develop the site in wordpress , I thought of installing in a subfolder and when I publish, pull to the root, but I've already been told that this is too much trouble.
Is there a safe way to do this, without losing theme posts and settings?
Is there a way to install wordpress in the root of the site, but leave it hidden from users during development, perhaps only by accessing the site by password?