WordPress Plugin to Make your Blog Temporarily Unavailable for Maintenance

Awesome plugin, thank you. ^^

@Carsten
I too was thinking about it. One problem I noticed was that certain data structures are not properly initialized when the plugins are included.

I will soon release the next version with this feature. Keep an eye on this post.

It would be nice to include the header and footer to keep the exsisting look and feel. It was very simple to get this working.
$message = ”;
//$message .= ”;
$message .= ‘This blog is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance. Please try after ‘.$retry_after.’ minutes. Sorry for the inconvenience.’;

…..

if(!strstr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], ‘feed/’) && !strstr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], ‘wp-admin/’)) {
@ get_header();
echo $message.’Plugin provided by Taragana‘;
@ get_footer();
exit();
}

The @ was to supress some error message.

i guess even with code tag I cant properly post it.

I emailed you the link to the code and comments that can be found in a post at http://www.kosherjava.com

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@Andy & Will
I will look at it today.

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Hy, very nice Plugin - i have translate your plugin for german wp-users and i have write a little unavailable site for this plugin.
i hope, you enjoy this.

Link to Plugin: http://www.bueltge.de/wp-waertungsmodus-plugin/101/

With best regards Frank

Say, don’t want to sound pushy or anything but umm, when is that next update with inclusions on some of those suggestions coming out?

Thanks for this TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE plug-in:

VERY USEFUL

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Thanks, its a great plugin =)… and works excellent

This is wonderful! Just what I’ve been looking for.

Excellent plugin but it does not work with Wordpress 2.02 Shame really. Unfortunately, you cannot even access the admin once the plugin is activated. Any chance you#ll be upgrading it?

Several people have successfully used this plugin and are using even today.
The problem appears to be specific to your site.

Unfortunately I do not have much time at the moment to debug and support this issue.

ke>

You can always delete/rename the plugin file and things will be back to normal.
I will take a look into this.

Hi
I have a urgent problem. After activating this plugin, and deactivating it, I find that my site returns a blank page only. I can still get back the offline page when I activate this plugin. There is nothing I can do to get the site to work again. Can you please give me instructions on how to clear this? Thanks in advance.

It does not work. I am not sure if this has anything to do with the wp-cache plugin..

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> is there a way that I can temporarily disable the plugin from the outside — by FTP maybe?

Yes, delete the plugin file using http://FTP.

Angsuman - take a look at the maintenance mode plugin for your next update. Including an admin option page where you can add your own html to generate your own ‘down for the count’ page would be a useful addition

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but you can simply change (replace) index.php page with your Unavailable text

Hi. Problem:
I find ‘php_self’ occasionally not to work with WP installations with a custom path and custom permalinks. This is a problem with many plugins actually.
I suggest these changes to your code:
use ‘request_uri’ instead of ‘php_self’, and use ’strpos’ instead of ’strstr’.
what do you think?

wow, nice plugin. It makes all wordpress users to next level - profesional.

thanks for this great and very easy to use plugin!!

is great! and this website is great ! thanks again.

Great, just what i was looking for! Thanks mate!

Plugin denies access to google and search engines?

Can I enable PHP in that page? I am planning on using a countdown page (that has Flash and PHP for a mailing list) to launch my website. It will be the only page accessible till I launch my website.

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i want a template with dual sidebar on both left and rights side of my blog. can anyone tell me where can i find one.

Hi, thank you for this post. Not so long ago I did try this one cause I needed to hide my blog online cause I think its so private but of course there are viewers that I would want to be seen. This is a big help for future use. Thanks again.