How To Change WordPress Blog to Under Maintenance Mode?

Posted by Jerry Ong |

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Oct 18

Headache of how to adds a splash page to your wordpress blog that lets visitors know your blog is under scheduled maintenance?

This simple “Maintanance Mode” plugin can help you to solved this problem and block your reader to see your unready blog

Author : sw-guide

Download and Installation

1. Download Maintenance Mode Plugin

for WordPress 2.0.9 and later (incl. WP 2.3)

You also can download an obsolete version which will work with WP 1.5.2 and WP 2.0 thru 2.0.8: Maintenance Mode 2.3

2. Extract and upload the “maintenance-mode” folder to your “/wp-content/plugins/” directory.

3. Activate plugin at your “Plugins” page and go to “Settings” to set Maintenance Mode options

Usage and Settings

You can change the mode - Activate or Deactivated Site Maintenance Mode Option

Message to displayed when the maintenance mode is activated and also how long is your maintenance settings

You can enter paths that shall be excluded and still be accessible. Example: If you want to exclude http://site.com/about/, then enter /about/

When you activate the maintenance mode, it adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end.

This plugin adds the capability “access_on_maintenance” to the role “Administrator”. If you now want to achieve, that for example users with the role “Editor” do also get full access to the blog when being logged in, use the plugin Role Manager and grant the capability “Access On Maintenance” for the role “Editor” or for any other role of your choice. Check out WordPress Codex > Roles and Capabilities for further information.

Jerry Says……

the Maintenance Mode Plugin can be very useful when you want to test your new blog template or install any plugins that you think might affect your blog layout. Also when you’re building a new wordpress blog, this can prevent visitors from viewing your incomplete blog.

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El on October 19th, 2008 6:35 pm

been searching for good guide for this plugin, and now i have found it here thanks Jerry Ong!
Jerry Ong on October 19th, 2008 6:58 pm

@EL welcome man
Branson Computer Repair on November 21st, 2008 7:25 pm

Thanks alot! Another awesome Word Press plug-in. Please conitnue to post more - I’m always looking for effective ways to add features like this.