Comments on: Featured Plugin: Maintenance Mode

By: Enkay

Enkay — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:59:49 +0000

Yeah, I know what you mean. I haven’t tried using a local installation of WordPress to update my design as I usually have a test blog that I have set up that I use for that. I’m going to have to give that a try.

By: Enkay

Enkay — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:58:55 +0000

Yeah, I agree with you on that. I just use the plug-in when I am messing around with the database after creating a back up so that things don’t go hay wire but I know what you mean by the limited concept as it really doesnt have any long term uses.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:10:14 +0000

I can see the plugin being useful in some situations, but I think it’s pretty limited.

As per Hendry comments, I prefer to make changes to my blog using a local copy I have running at home, and then upload the changes to my webhost when they’re done.

By: Hendry Lee

Hendry Lee — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:23:15 +0000

I installed it once but I don’t find this plugin very useful. To upgrade a blog, you enable this plugin, then just before you upgrade the code, per the instruction, you disable all plugins.

Now you can do this easily by clicking on the Disable All Plugins link. That means this plugin is also disabled, so should I turn it back on?

I prefer to update my design offline, using a local installation of WordPress.

The idea about Maintenance Mode was most likely taken from Drupal, but in Drupal, it works because it is not a module, but part of the feature of the CMS.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:13:22 +0000

I haven’t used this plugin, but I can definitely see how it would be useful. What they should do is make a plugin that when activated will display the blog as normal and any changes can only be seen by admin so that the maintenance message would not appear and the blog would continue to function as usual while you made your adjustments.