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Maintenance mode WordPress plugin

30 January 2010 12 Comments

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Today when I woke up at 10:30 AM (I am damn good in sleeping), I got a call from my friend saying something wrong with my website. I washed my face and went straight to my PC started my Browser and open www.beingPC.com and I am really shocked by seeing my website, everything is going wrong, all my categories were deleted, My Headline and Featured widget were not working, Page Navigation was showing error.

And above all I was not able to access my Control panel, so the first thing came into my mind is my website is Hacked, but after looking deeply I came to know that my disk space ran out and this is causing all problems. So i figured out that correcting all these will take at-least half an hour and till than most of my visitor will raise their eyebrow and close my website.

At this time I recalled a plugin that I have never used but have installed in case of emergency, that plugin is Maintenance Mode Plugin.

Maintenance mode plugin is a free wordpress plugin, which will let you put a custom message at the time you are doing something with your website like editing or struggling like me. At that time you can show your visitor a custom message that you are doing so and so thing so they should visit after so and so time.

maintenance Maintenance mode Wordpress plugin

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Yogesh Mankani said:

That’s a cool share man. I am sure every blogger will love this tool because sometimes website needs maintainance too and that really give your visitors a relief.

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# 30 January 2010 at 6:57 PM

kavinraja said:

I too saw that yesterday guys.
Some of your posts are also lost in it, isn’t it?

P.S:- If you don’t mind, can you tell how much disk space your site currently occupies. *just due to curiosity pal*

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Mad Geek Reply:
January 31st, 2010 at 12:08 PM

I don’t know exactly, must be around 70-80 MB i feel. AFAIK no posts are lost but they might be misplaced

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# 1 February 2010 at 1:31 PM

Ankita said:

Do we have a similar maintenance plugin in blogger as well? if so, how can we install it?

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# 1 February 2010 at 5:25 PM

kavinraja said:

Ankita, blogger doesn’t have a feature of installing plugins.
There you must deal everything with Html/Xml.
And afterall blogger is hosted on google’s server and you won’t have any need for server maintenance.
Even if you edit html codes you don’t need to worry because the changes takes place only when code is parched correctly.

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# 2 February 2010 at 5:46 AM

SEO Lincolnshire said:

I have just installed the maintenance mode plug in and from this post I can see it being very useful.

Is it possible to have a site in maintenance mode and still build links to the domain to increase Page Rank? I am just wondering if I can set up a barebones site, submit a sitemap to Google and put the site in maintenance mode while I get links built up? Any help appreciated – thanks.

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Mad Geek Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 8:36 PM

Yes obviously, you can do that.

Since your site is opening maintenance mode page that means your site is still running. A small little workaround I say

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# 11 February 2010 at 5:35 PM