How To Change WordPress Blog to Under Maintenance Mode?
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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