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Example WordPress .maintenance file. maintenance.php is optional but useful for styling the message the public will see (it is also used when updating WordPress conponments), drop it in your wp-content folder.
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.maintenance
<?php
function is_user_logged_in() {
$loggedin = false;
foreach ( (array) $_COOKIE as $cookie => $value ) {
if ( stristr( $cookie, 'wordpress_logged_in_' ) ) {
$loggedin = true;
}
}
return $loggedin;
}
$check_ip = true;
$your_ip = '';
$client_ip = '';
if ( ! stristr( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/wp-admin' ) && ! stristr( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/wp-login.php' ) && ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
if ( $check_ip && $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] != $your_ip && $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] != $client_ip ) {
$upgrading = time();
}
}
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maintenance.php
<?php
/* Tell search engines that the site is temporarily unavailable */
$protocol = $_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'];
if ( 'HTTP/1.1' != $protocol && 'HTTP/1.0' != $protocol ) {
$protocol = 'HTTP/1.0';
}
header( "$protocol 503 Service Unavailable", true, 503 );
header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' );
header( 'Retry-After: 600' );
?><!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<title>Maintenance In Progress - Company Name</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
/* inline styles here (don't link them as they might not be available) */
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Apologies, we are busy updating our website.</h1>
<p>Please bear with us as we try to do this as fast as we can.</p>
/* Aditional content information here, Twitter link etc. */
</body>
</html>
<?php
/* This passes control back to the WordPress upgrade routine */
die();
/* Don't change this */
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