Let Your Readers Know About Your Maintenance

27. Apr, 2007 2 Comments - Leave your comment

  

If you are a WordPress user, one of the small downsides of a self-hosted option is the downtime when upgrading your blog software or tweaking themes. Fortunately, there is a plugin that allows you to let your users know about downtimes. The plugin is called Maintenance Mode.

What the Reader Sees

Maintenance Mode Main Page
What a reader will see when you are performing maintenance

Features

  • Can activate/deactive plugin in the admin panel.
  • Can alert users when the site might be back up.
  • Admins can still see the site.
  • You can specify a custom message.
  • You can specify which parts of the site can still work.

Admin Area

Maintenance Admin Options
Various admin options

Conclusion

The Maintenance Mode plugin is a must-have plugin for those that want to alert users about maintenance.

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2 Comments on “Let Your Readers Know About Your Maintenance” - Add yours!

  1. inspirationbit Reply 27. Apr, 2007 at 7:39 am

    WOW! What a useful plugin. Thanks for introducing it to the others. It will definitely come handy for me in a near future.

  2. Ronald Huereca Reply 27. Apr, 2007 at 8:11 pm

    You’re welcome. I hope it works out for you on your blog.

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