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Your own custom maintenance mode for WordPress

The custom maintenance mode message in WordPress, during upgrades and installs, is far from beautiful :) Time to change that!

You can do your own page by adding a pure PHP maintenance.php into your /wp-content folder.

Now go and build a nice page !

    

  1. <?php
    2. 

  2. 
function site_protocol() {

    3. 

  3.     if(isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && ($_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 'on' || $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 1) || isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO']) &&  $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] == 'https')  return $protocol = 'https://'; else return $protocol = 'http://';

    4. 

  4. }
    5. 

  5. /* Redirect if no maintenance */
    6. 

  6. 
if(!file_exists(realpath ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] )."/.maintenance")){

    7. 

  7.         header("location: ".site_protocol().$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

    8. 

  8.         exit;

    9. 

  9. }
    10. 

  10. 
$protocol = $_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"];

    11. 

  11. 
if ( 'HTTP/1.1' != $protocol && 'HTTP/1.0' != $protocol )

    12. 

  12.         $protocol = 'HTTP/1.0';

    13. 

  13. 
header( "$protocol 503 Service Unavailable", true, 503 );

    14. 

  14. 
header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' );

    15. 

  15. ?>
    16. 

  16. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    17. 

  17. <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    18. 

  18. <head>
    19. 

  19. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    20. 

  20.     <title>Maintenance</title> 
    21. 

  21. </head>
    22. 

  22. <body>
    23. 

  23.     <h1>Do some magic</h1>
    24. 

  24. </body>
    25. 

  25. </html>
    26. 

  26. 
<?php die(); ?>

    27.

Just remember that during maintenance no WordPress functionality is available!

Enjoy coding …

Alex

I am a full-stack developer. I love programming,  design and know my way around server architecture as well.  I would never feel complete, with one of these missing. I have a broad range of interests, that’s why I constantly dive into new technologies and expand my knowledge where ever required. Technologies are evolving fast and I enjoy using the latest. Apart from that, I am a peace loving guy who tries to have people around him that think the same.  I truly believe in the principle: “If you help someone, someone will help you, when you need it."

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