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.

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:

Download the Pluging from here.

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5 Responses to “Have Your WordPress Blog In Maintenance Mode”

1. Wing Loon says:

   November 19, 2007 at 11:05 pm

   Good tips, I am using this too,

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2. Tech Updates says:

   July 16, 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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3. David says:

   October 4, 2008 at 3:35 am

   I am having trouble finding where to put my site into maintenance mode. Any thoughts ?

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4. DeiMoS says:

   February 8, 2009 at 8:26 pm

   I have problems, i’m using wp 2.7 and the maintenance mode only blocks the admin page, not the public page :S

   Reply
5. JohnA says:

   April 7, 2009 at 9:11 am

   Why is this not built into WordPress? Are you kidding me?

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