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 !

<?php
function site_protocol() {
    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 $protocol = 'http://';
}
/* Redirect if no maintenance */
if(!file_exists(realpath ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] )."/.maintenance")){
	header("location: ".site_protocol().$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
	exit;
}
$protocol = $_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"];
if ( 'HTTP/1.1' != $protocol && 'HTTP/1.0' != $protocol )
        $protocol = 'HTTP/1.0';
header( "$protocol 503 Service Unavailable", true, 503 );
header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' );
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Maintenance</title> 
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Do some magic</h1>
</body>
</html>
<?php die(); ?>

<?php

function site_protocol() {

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://';

}

/* Redirect if no maintenance */

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

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

exit;

}

$protocol = $_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"];

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

$protocol = 'HTTP/1.0';

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

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

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

<head>

<title>Maintenance</title>

</head>

<body>

<h1>Do some magic</h1>

</body>

</html>

<?php die(); ?>

Just remember that during maintenance no WordPress functionality is available!

Your own custom maintenance mode for WordPress

Enjoy coding …

Alexander

Your own custom maintenance mode for WordPress

Enjoy coding …

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