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Have Your Wordpress Blog In Maintenance Mode

Migrating from hosting providers or maintenance tasks that require leaving the blog in stand-by, so that visitors could not comment on or add data in the databases.This is a really tricky situation where anything could go wrong and everything has to be dealt carefully.The maintenance mode plugin adds a splash page to your blog lettting visitors know that your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front.

When the maintenance mode is activated, the following message is being displayed or a message of your choice which can be edited in the plugins options.

wp_maintain_mode

Installation

  • Unzip the archive and upload the files into your plugins folder (located at /wp-content/plugins/ ) or into a sub folder of the plugins folder.
  • Activate the plugin from your Plugins Tab.
  • Set the Plugin Options: Options-> Maintenance Mode (You can configure the message that appears when one is in maintenance mode and other things extra).

Maintenance Mode Options:

maintanence_mode_options

Download the Pluging from here.

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  • 2 Responses to: "Have Your Wordpress Blog In Maintenance Mode"

    1. 1 Wing Loon
      Monday, November 19th, 2007 at 11:05 pm

      Good tips, I am using this too, :)
      Wing Loon’s last blog post..MediaPortal 0.2.3.0 Released

    2. 2 Tech Updates
      Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 6:19 pm

      I will give this a try when there are any theme changes needed to be done on my blog!


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