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Maintenance Mode

Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance.

Download Version 5.4

5.4 [2010-10-25]

  • Bug fix: Blank white screen when using Super Cache plugin
  • Bug fix: Syntax error regarding add_action('admin_notices'...
  • New feature: possibility to exclude the home page

5.3 [2010-10-19]

  • Bug fix: broke compatibility with the pluggable architecture, thanks to radiok.

5.2 [2010-06-03]

  • Bug fix: Syntax error regarding add_action('admin_notices'..
  • Improved redirection from /wp-admin/ to wp-login.php
  • No longer support of WordPress versions < 2.7

5.1 [2010-05-13]

  • New feature: Options to activate/deactivate feeds, trackbacks and XML-RPC publishing
  • New feature: Redirect from /wp-admin/ to wp-login.php if the user is not logged in
  • Bug fixes and improvements under the hood

5.0 [2010-05-09]

  • New feature: Countdown timer
  • New feature: Theme support
  • New feature: Backtime in days, hours and minutes
  • New feature: Improved access management for front end and backend
  • New feature: New option to keep feeds and trackbacks working
  • ... and many more improvements, new features and bug fixes

4.4 [2009-12-31]

  • Bug fix with media uploader: With the “Deny non-administrators to access the blog’s back-end” option enabled, the Flash version of the Media Uploader returns the maintenance mode page when something is uploaded. This happened when uploading using an admin user.
  • Bug fix: Included plugins directory so that currently enabled plugins work while in maintenance mode.

4.3 [2009-02-17]

  • Bug fix: is_maintenance() did not work
  • Bug fix: Maintenance mode splash page was shown when maintenance mode deactivated but option “Deny non-administrators to access the blog’s back-end” activated

4.2 [2009-02-01]

  • New feature: Optionally use a ‘503.php’ from within the theme directory for the splash page
  • New feature: Optionally deny non-administrators to access the blog’s back-end

4.1 [2009-01-28]

  • Bug fix: Minor bug fixes

4.0 [2009-01-13]

  • Bug fix: Several bug fixes.
  • New feature: Added localization support.

3.2 [2007-08-28]

  • Bug fix: Replaced include('maintenance-mode_site.php') with include( dirname(FILE) . '/maintenance-mode_site.php')
  • Improvement: Better HTTP header output
  • New feature: Apply HTTP header ‘503 Service Unavailable’ to splash page

3.1 [2007-08-03]

  • Bug fix: Replaced “<?” with “<?php” in line 210

3.0 [2007-07-07]

  • New feature: User roles and capabilities are supported now.
  • New feature: Message is displayed in administration panel when maintenance mode is activated.
  • New feature: Template tag is_maintenance() is available to display a message in the theme when maintenance mode is activated.
  • Bug fix: back time in HTML header was not applied.
  • New feature: simplified options by removing section for second language, it can be entered in the normal message box.

2.3 [2007-03-04]

  • Bug fix: For the link to the administration menu, get_settings('home') was used instead of get_settings('siteurl').

2.2 [2007-01-01]

  • Bug fix: As long as the plugin was active the feeds didn’t work although the maintenance mode was not active.
  • New feature: Plugin updated to work with WordPress 2.1

2.1 [2006-11-26]

  • New feature: Maintenance Mode can be activated/deactivated in the plugin’s options, for details see comment #35.

2.0 [2006-06-20]

  • New feature: Added options page in the WordPress admin. Supports modification of the messages and many more.

1.1 [2006-04-30]

  • New feature: User levels are supported now.

1.0 [2006-04-29]

  • Initial release

Requires: 2.7 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.0.5
Last Updated: 2010-10-27 Downloads: 621,309

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