{"id":412,"date":"2005-11-18T19:19:26","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T17:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchfragfactory.net\/ozh\/archives\/2005\/11\/18\/wordpress-tip-for-blog-maintenance\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T23:54:27","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T21:54:27","slug":"wordpress-tip-for-blog-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/wordpress-tip-for-blog-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Tip for Blog Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"

WordPress tip of the day : how to momentarily turn your WordPress blog down, while working on some heavy maintaining task ?<\/p>\n

There are a few plugins around that, once activated, redirect every request to a page telling readers that your blog is currently under some maintenance, reconstruction, attack or anythnig. There is a much much smarter and simple way to do this :
\n<\/p>\n

Create a one page theme, index.php<\/strong> only, with your announcement. This file could look like :<\/p>\n

\n\n\t\t
\n\n\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t< View plain text<\/span> ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t
HTML<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t
\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t
\n\t\t
  1. <html<\/span>><\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  2. <head<\/span>><\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  3. <title<\/span>><\/span>What the ... ?<\/<\/span>title<\/span>><\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  4. <\/<\/span>head<\/span>><\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  5. <body<\/span>><\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  6. <center<\/span>><p<\/span>><\/span>Currently upgrading... Check back later !<\/<\/span>p<\/span>><\/<\/span>center<\/span>><\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  7. <\/<\/span>body<\/span>><\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  8. <\/<\/span>html<\/span>><\/span><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

    You also need a simple style.css<\/strong> so that WordPress will actually identify your file as a theme, and allow you to select it in the admin menu :<\/p>\n

    \n\n\t\t
    \n\n\t\t
    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t< View plain text<\/span> ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t
    css<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t
    \n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t
    \n\t\t
    1. \/*  <\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
    2. Theme Name: Shutdown<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
    3. Theme URI: http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
    4. Description: Momentarily shut your blog down<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
    5. Version: 1<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
    6. Author: You<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
    7. Author URI: http:\/\/localhost\/<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
    8. *\/<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

      And you're done. If you select this theme, all of your pages will be available (no "page not found" or anything)and all show the same message.<\/p>\n

      Of course, for longer shutdowns, you could improve the page a bit : add an appropriate header code (307 Temporary Redirect<\/em> maybe ?) and a few relevant meta tags so that search engine bots would not completely clear your page out of their database.<\/p>\n

      I think this method is better than using a plugin since, with such a theme, server and database loads are lowered down to the strict minimum. This could even help you upgrade stuff faster.<\/p>\n

      I've found this neat trick on WordPress-FR<\/a> and it's clearly smart stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Nice tip about how to momentarily turn off your blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2,76,245,108],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-code","tag-tips","tag-wordpress","tag-wordpress-theme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}