Maxime Culea

BE API

Nicolas Juen

rlefort

<p>This simple and lightweight WordPress maintenance plugin puts the site into maintenance mode. The major advantage, compared to existing plugins, is that there are no options, it is ready to use!</p>
<p>It was think, while in maintenance mode, to :<br />
– Not impact your SEO by sending a ‘503 Service Unavailable’ status to all unauthenticated clients. This means that it will inhibits search engines from both losing your site’s existing content and indexing your maintenance page as well, so your site will not lose its rankings while it is out of service. Content will even be hidden from consumers of the site’s RSS or Atom feeds.<br />
– Make continually work the login/loggout process.<br />
– It handle the <em>activate process in multisite</em>, which a lot of existing plugins don’t.<br />
– If people are logged in they will have the site displayed as normal/expected.</p>
<h3>How ?</h3>
<p>We would like to precise that this plugin is simple as pie, anyone can use it but still dev-oriented. The idea is to not have a bunch of options to set before using it, in fact not only one! Because, it is a really pain when working on a multisite.<br />
That is why there as still two filter for developers, which come in the section below.</p>
<h3>IPs whitelist</h3>
<p>In certain conditions, it is useful to not trigger the maintenance mode. That’s why you can add a file to your project (mu-plugins) to specify a range of IPs to whitelist. At the agency we use it with our VPN IP.<br />
Please find an example of implementation on the following <a href="https://github.com/BeAPI/bea-plugin-defaults/blob/master/default-beapi-maintenance-mode.php" rel="nofollow ugc">github</a>;</p>
<h3>Customize the maintenance mode template</h3>
<p>By default it is the file located in the templates folder : <a href="https://github.com/BeAPI/beapi-maintenance-mode/blob/master/templates/maintenance.php" rel="nofollow ugc">maintenance.php</a><br />
But you can customize this template using the following implementation on <a href="https://github.com/BeAPI/bea-plugin-defaults/blob/master/default-beapi-maintenance-mode.php" rel="nofollow ugc">github</a>, with a custom template placed wherever you want.</p>
<h3>Composer</h3>
<p>It is possible to activate the plugin by composer <code>wp plugin activate beapi-maitenance-mode [--network]</code><br />
If you are a developer and the plugin is not installed, you could also just use a <a href="https://github.com/BeAPI/composer-go-maintenance" rel="nofollow ugc">dedicated composer command</a>.</p>
<h3>Who ?</h3>
<p>Created by <a href="https://beapi.fr" rel="nofollow ugc">Be API</a>, the French WordPress leader agency since 2009. Based in Paris, we are more than 30 people and always <a href="https://beapi.workable.com" rel="nofollow ugc">hiring</a> some fun and talented guys. So we will be pleased to work with you.</p>
<p>This plugin is only maintained, which means we do not guarantee some free support. Consider reporting an <a href="https://github.com/BeAPI/bea-media-analytics/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">issue</a> and be patient.</p>
<p>To facilitate the process of submitting an issue and quicker answer, we only use Github, so don’t use WP.Org support, it will not be considered.</p>


BEAPI – Maintenance Mode

Puts your WordPress site into maintenance mode by sending a 'Error 503: Access Denied/Forbidden' status to all unauthenticated clients.

jfinch3

Peter Hardy-vanDoorn

<p>This plugin is intended primarily for designers / developers that need to allow clients to preview sites before being available to the general public or to temporarily hide your WordPress site while undergoing major updates.</p>
<p>Any logged in user with WordPress administrator privileges will be allowed to view the site regardless of the settings in the plugin. The exact privilege can be set using a filter hook – see FAQs.</p>
<p>The behaviour of this plugin can be enabled or disabled at any time without losing any of the settings configured in its settings pane. However, deactivating the plugin is recommended versus having it activated while disabled.</p>
<p>When redirect is enabled it can send 2 different header types. “200 OK” is best used for when the site is under development and “503 Service Temporarily Unavailable” is best for when the site is temporarily taken offline for small amendments. If used for a long period of time, 503 can damage your Google ranking.</p>
<p>A list of IP addresses can be set up to completely bypass maintenance mode. This option is useful when needing to allow a client’s entire office to access the site while in maintenance mode without needing to maintain individual access keys. See FAQ below about working through a proxy.</p>
<p>Access keys work by creating a cookie on the user’s computer that will be checked for when maintenance mode is active. When a new key is created, a link to create the access key cookie will be emailed to the email address provided. Access can then be revoked either by disabling or deleting the key.</p>
<p>This plugin allows three methods of notifying users that a site is undergoing maintenance:</p>
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<p>They can be presented with a simple message.</p>
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<p>They can be presented with a custom HMTL page.</p>
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<p>They can be redirected to a static HTML page. This static page will need to be uploaded to the server via FTP or some other method. This plugin DOES NOT include any way to upload the static page file. Any URL can be used here, and it doesn’t need to be on the same server (so you could redirect back to the client’s current site if you’re working on a dev site, for example). However, it should NOT be the URL of a WordPress page or post on the same site as this will result in an infinite redirect loop.</p>
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Maintenance Redirect

Display a maintenance mode page and allow invited visitors to bypass the functionality to preview the site.

BEAPI – Maintenance Mode vs Maintenance Redirect