Switch to put page into maintenance mode?

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LarsEllmauer
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Switch to put page into maintenance mode?

Post by LarsEllmauer » Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:27 am

Hi all,

I am wondering if it wouldn't be a good idea to include some sort of switch into the backend that allows the user to take the page offline and display a certain (user-defined) message to the visitor. I remember this function from Joomla and always considered it to be quite handy when playing around with content and/or layout.

Cheers,
Lars

P.S. I know you just finished XH1.0 and I don't expect that to happen soon, just wanted to leave the idea for some later build.

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Re: Switch to put page into maintenance mode?

Post by Holger » Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:51 am

Hi Lars,

a long time ago, I've written a real simple Plugin for this job.
It's working fine, but I have plans to make some improvements:
- Template - System for the maintenance page
- prevent search engines of indexing the maintenance page by adding a HTTP 503 status code
- Some more config vars for the text output etc.

I think a v2.0 may be ready around X-mas / new year.
But the old version should work for you at the moment.

Download: http://HolgerIrmler.de/playground/image ... nce_v1.zip
A help-file is included.

Feedback and suggestions are welcome!

Cheers,
Holger

LarsEllmauer
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Re: Switch to put page into maintenance mode?

Post by LarsEllmauer » Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:54 am

Hi Holger,

how could I think that was not yet a solution for this? :P

Just gave it a try, seems to work great! For me, the option with the static HTML page is fine, but still I look forward to your improvements.
If you need some testing on them, just let me know.

Thanks,
Lars

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