BEAPI – Maintenance Mode vs Maintenance & Coming Soon Redirect Animation

This simple and lightweight WordPress maintenance plugin puts the site into maintenance mode. The major advantage, compared to existing plugins, is that there are no options, it is ready to use! It was think, while in maintenance mode, to : – Not impact your SEO by sending a ‘503 Service Unavailable’ status to all unauthenticated clients. This means that it will inhibits search engines from both losing your site’s existing content and indexing your maintenance page as well, so your site will not lose its rankings while it is out of service. Content will even be hidden from consumers of the site’s RSS or Atom feeds. – Make continually work the login/loggout process. – It handle the activate process in multisite, which a lot of existing plugins don’t. – If people are logged in they will have the site displayed as normal/expected. How ? We would like to precise that this plugin is simple as pie, anyone can use it but still dev-oriented. The idea is to not have a bunch of options to set before using it, in fact not only one! Because, it is a really pain when working on a multisite. That is why there as still two filter for developers, which come in the section below. IPs whitelist In certain conditions, it is useful to not trigger the maintenance mode. That’s why you can add a file to your project (mu-plugins) to specify a range of IPs to whitelist. At the agency we use it with our VPN IP. Please find an example of implementation on the following github; Customize the maintenance mode template By default it is the file located in the templates folder : maintenance.php But you can customize this template using the following implementation on github, with a custom template placed wherever you want. Composer It is possible to activate the plugin by composer wp plugin activate beapi-maitenance-mode [--network] If you are a developer and the plugin is not installed, you could also just use a dedicated composer command. Who ? Created by Be API, the French WordPress leader agency since 2009. Based in Paris, we are more than 30 people and always hiring some fun and talented guys. So we will be pleased to work with you. This plugin is only maintained, which means we do not guarantee some free support. Consider reporting an issue and be patient. To facilitate the process of submitting an issue and quicker answer, we only use Github, so don’t use WP.Org support, it will not be considered.

This super lightweight plugin is intended primarily for developers, designers and site administrators that need to allow clients to preview the site before being available to the public or to temporarily hide it while undergoing major updates. Any logged-in user with WordPress administrator privileges will be allowed to view the site regardless of the settings in the plugin. The exact privilege can be set using a filter hook – see FAQs. The behaviour of this can be enabled or disabled at any time without losing any of the settings configured in its settings pane. However, deactivating the plugin is recommended versus having it activated while disabled. When redirect is enabled, it can send a different header types. A list of IP addresses can be set up to completely bypass maintenance mode. This option is useful when needing to allow a client’s entire office to access the site while in maintenance mode without needing to maintain individual access keys. Access keys work by creating a key on the user’s computer that will be checked against when maintenance mode is active. When a new key is created, a link to create the access key cookie will be emailed to the email address provided. Access can then be revoked either by disabling or deleting the key. Whitelisted User Roles – user roles who see the site, instead of under maintenance page Whitelisted Users – users who see the site, instead of maintenance page Animations : Animation on the web is not only fun, but engaging in such a way that it has converted site visitors into customers even before will be available to the general public and it will make them eagerly await its launch. You can either choose your animation from the library or upload your own; this animation will be shown in front of your site when it is undergoing maintenance. Notes : ✔ This plugin will override any other maintenance plugin you use. ✔ All settings are auto-updated , you don’t need to save anything . WP-CLI Commands : Note : before you begin run these commands make sure you have wp-cli installed on your server and your are in your WordPress site Root folder ✔ To install the plugin via wp-cli : sudo wp plugin install maintenance-coming-soon-redirect-animation --allow-root ✔ To activate it : sudo wp plugin activate maintenance-coming-soon-redirect-animation --allow-root ✔ To deactivate it : sudo wp plugin deactivate maintenance-coming-soon-redirect-animation --allow-root ✔ To uninstall it : sudo wp plugin uninstall maintenance-coming-soon-redirect-animation --allow-root Note : before you can uninstall the plugin you have to deactivate it first ✔ To Update the plugin : sudo wp plugin update maintenance-coming-soon-redirect-animation --allow-root