ejm

Ooops. I neglected to insert the following just before the “attach webname to author”. I have re-inserted the coding again. It does not throw any errors. But it also does not display the webname if it is filled in.

// make sure webname appears if it is filled in
function comment_edit_function( $comment_id )
{
    if( isset( $_POST['webname'] ) )
      update_comment_meta( $comment_id, 'webname', esc_attr( $_POST['webname'] ) );
	else 
	$_POST['webname'] = '';
}

Thank you for posting a how-to for inserting code. I was going to insert the code but was challenged by the new format here. (I am very challenged with “blocks”.)

Sigh. Every time I try to insert the code, I click on “code”, paste in the code and hey presto, it strips any instances of < and > away. I’ll try one more time… FINALLY!! I did not realize I had to look for the code block further down in the post. (I am from the previous century when we used to simply surround code with single quotes….)

Here is the code that is causing the critical error:

function add_comment_fields($newfield) {
    $newfield['webname'] = '<p class="comment-form-author" title="this field is optional"><label for="webname">' . __( 'Your Site\'s Name' ) . '</label>' .
        '<input id="webname" name="webname" type="text" size="30" /></p>';
    return $newfield;
}
add_filter('comment_form_default_fields','add_comment_fields');

Thank you for any help you can offer.
– E.

re: “If you really want to start this change I recommend you to join the WordPress slack channel, […snip…] and mention your ticket there.”

Because I am not a programmer, and considering that there has been little attention from developers interested on implementing this feature in 13 years since someone first placed the ticket, and the sporadic replies offering solutions or stating that this is indeed a good idea (indicating statistically that there must be others wanting this improvement to the WP core), I confess that I’m not sure that I’m ready for the disappointment when/if nothing happens again.

If there is a mis-threaded comment on my WP again, I will probably just resort to delving into the database as you suggested. Thank you again, !Benni, for pointing to that plugin-free solution.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by ejm.

Thanks for finding that, !Benni. Others may find this plugin useful. (I am not wild about installing a plugin just for this; I don’t get enough comments to make it worthwhile.)

Going directly into the databasetable did the trick. Still, it would be handier if there were a place in the comments area of WP-admin where this could be done.

With reluctance, I’ll mark this question as resolved.

Thank you for your reply, Jan Dembowski.

By putting the following in my theme’s functions.php, am I correct that “get header” would cause the page to display my theme’s header?

// Activate WordPress Maintenance Mode
function wp_maintenance_mode() {
    if (!current_user_can('edit_themes') || !is_user_logged_in()) {
        wp_die('<h1>Under Maintenance</h1><br />Something ain't right, but we're working on it! Check back later.');
    }
}
add_action('get_header', 'wp_maintenance_mode');

However, this would cause the site to show it was in Maintenance mode until the coding was removed, would it not?

What I am trying to do is use “The maintenance function in WordPress” but avoid the display of a wp-generated splash page that is largely blank (or worse, if I used a plugin, one with someone else’s generic background image) with just a few words on it and nothing else (even if it is for a very short time) that doesn’t not look anything like the expected view of the site.

WordPress updates shouldn’t take longer than a minute, but during that minute, your site will be replaced by this splash page [- mhthemes.com/support/knb/how-put-wordpress-in-maintenance-mode/#built-in-maintenance-mode]

In computer time, a minute is an eon.

I was hoping that someone might be able to explain how I could make the maintenance page show my header and footer (and perhaps modified sidebar), with the maintenance message displayed prominently on the main part of the page. It doesn’t seem like a huge thing to want….

Until around December, we were able to do that by customizing the maintenance.php in wp-content folder.

WP is just one aspect of my site. When WP is in maintenance, I would like to be able to offer visitors links to related parts, rather than knowing they will simply leave in impatience.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but placing the WP php coding on a div to be inserted on a largely HTML based page would not be any more of a security risk than having the WP-generated php page would it?

-E. Morris

P.S. The reason I moved the question over into Feedback section was to point out that there is zero explanation of /wp-content/maintenance/template.phtml in the Codex. Or at least, if there is, it is pretty much impossible to find by searching.

I have now moved this question over to https://wordpress.org/support/topic/walk-through-to-customize-maintenance-page-without-a-plugin/

I do not know how to close this thread. I am reluctant to mark this as “resolved”, because it is not.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by ejm.

Thank you for your reply, jasonabmw. Yes, the code snippet I used does indeed match our server’s version of Apache. I will do as you say, and until the coding is fixed by the plugin (I cannot find where the directive for it is in the plugin files), I will manually change it.

I see that this plugin has just been updated, but the .htaccess file remains the same. Takayuki Miyoshi, I trust you will fix the /wp-content/uploads/wpcf7_uploads/.htaccess file coding to provide backward compatibilty as well as forward compatibility in the next update.

Thank you.