HTTP Status Code 200 instead of 503 !!!

  • trucho

    (@trucho)


    9 years ago

    Hi

    First of all, congratulations for your plugin. It displays a beautiful page and is really easy to use.

    The only problem I found with it (although in my opinion it’s a really serious one) is that the page returns a 200 http status, which means status OK.

    The main reason for me to implement a “maintenance page” is to avoid robots to index my work in progress content.

    Status 200 (OK), tells Google that the whole site is about “maintenance mode”, or about whatever message is set in the page, and this can have a HUGE impact on your rankings. Google and other search engines recommend to return 503 status in case of maintenance mode.

    Is there any way to make the plugin return a 503 status? Honestly, without that, the plugin can be really harmful for any site trying to improve its rankings.

    Thanks

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/coming-soon-page/

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  • Thread Starter trucho

    (@trucho)

    9 years ago

    Hello again

    Taking a look at the code, I think this can be solved by inserting the line:

    header('Status: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable');

    as the first line of the function generete_front_end_html() in file include/front_end.php

    Regards

    Plugin Author wpdevart

    (@wpdevart)

    9 years ago

    Hi dear user.

    Thanks a lot for this topic, we will try to fix it on upcoming update.

    Best regards,
    WpDevArt support team.

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