This is a simple, very easy to use Maintenance Mode plugin that allows you to put your site into “maintenance mode” in order to perform updates or other changes. The plugin allows you to specify a set of authorized IP addresses for people that will be allowed to see the site normally, and also to set a redirect location for unauthorized visitors.
The greatly enhanced Pro version of this plugin is now available on Code Canyon
Demonstration
From the plugin settings page, you can quickly enable maintenance mode, set the authorized IP addresses, and choose where to redirect visitors who do not have access, either to a WordPress page or external URL.
Finally, a maintenance page plug-in that has thought the process of a maintenance page through and through.
Thanks Pippin.
@Michael – Thanks for the kind words. The pro version will be coming out pretty soon
Awesome!!! Just what I need. I can’t wait to have the pro version. Just an idea… countdowns are great in letting visitors know when they the site will be up again. I guess a shortcode to display that countdown on any exist page would be great.
That’s on the todo list for the pro version, which is about 70% done. Features will include: automatically turning maintenance mode on/off between a certain time frame, unlimited custom templates (with several included), timer count down, and a little more.
@Jose – the Pro version is now available: http://codecanyon.net/item/cgc-maintenance-mode-pro/720242?ref=mordauk
Hi pippin,
I have installed your plugin an activated it as per the steps in your video however I being redirected to my maintenance page on my own computer dispite having entered my computers ip address. Is there anything obvious I may have done wrong? Thank you for your help
Are you running it on localhost? If so, then ips do not work in that scenario.
Me too! I am on hostgator site, not localhost. I have the Headway framework and now I can’t get to the Headway Visual Editor either…..any ideas? I will have to deactivate your plugin soon to get back to work but I am leaving it so you can see it. I love the plugin but…..
http://e-inkvoices.com
Why are you using maintenance mode on localhost? IP addresses don’t always play by the same rules on local installs, so that’s probably the problem.
Thanks for your reply! Hmm not sure what u mean by localhost…can u elaborate?
Hello Jo,
Are you running your WP on a test installation on your computer? To jump in, I think that is yo what Pippin was referring.
@Jo – yes, Michael is correct. Do you have the plugin setup on a test site that is running on your computer, vs running on a live web server?
My ISP changed my IP address unexpectedly and now I am locked out. I have tried removing the plugin via FTP, but I still can’t get to the admin dashboard. What now?
Disregard that. I had mistyped the URL! Need more caffeine.
@Nick – Ha, okay.
@Nick – You will always be able to access /wp-admin. The plugin doesn’t prevent users from getting there at all. Also, if you have removed the plugin via FTP, then it cannot be preventing you from getting in, not unless you have a cache issue.
thanks for this plugin – but I’m having trouble getting it to work properly – even when activated, computers whose IP addresses I haven’t entered are still being granted access rather than being redirected.
any idea how I can stop this? thanks!
Do you have all of the redirect settings set? It sounds like perhaps something in your theme or another plugin is conflicting.
Hi, I installed this but when I enter my IP address it’s not giving me access – I can stil log in and access the dashboard, but not the pages. I am not working on a local host.
How do you enter the number? Should there be spaces, dots separating them?
Thanks
Is this on a local machine or live server?
Hi, I think I took from above that I would always be able to type in /wp-login.php and access the admin area right, even if the ip address is not on the list? right?
I have my IP in there so I can access now. I am partially deactivating the site for a year, and so sometimes ip addresses change. I want to make sure I can’t get locked out. I tried to figure out where the ip addresses are stored in the database so I could add later if need be, but didn’t figure that out.
Please confirm if my understanding is accurate… Thanks.
Correct, you will always be able to access the login page.
Hi Pippin…
I’m using your plugin and I’ve noticed that you don’t have considered the situation when the server (on wich wordpress is installed) is behind a proxy. I’ve edited the function restrict-access.php in your plugin like this:
function cmm_ip_test($ips){
$userIP = isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'] : (empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']) ? (empty($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) ? @getenv('REMOTE_ADDR') : $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) : $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']);
if(in_array($userIP, $ips)) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
Maybe you can release an update of the plugin with this feature added.
It would be nice also that the IP address of the administrator was mentioned somewhere in the setting page.
Thank’s for your work.
I have accounted for that in the Pro version, just haven’t updated the free version. I will try and get an update out.
Hey Pippin,
I don’t know if I messed up by updating WordPress to 3.5.1, but after spending weeks building my site behind the curtain of your great plug-in, now I can’t access the site anymore! I can access the dashboard and everything else, but I can’t see the new site, as I’m redirected every time, in spite of my IP being on the list.
As far as I can understand, I’m working on a live server.
It was working perfectly before.
Thanks
Fede
Does it only redirect when you view the front end, or also when in the admin?
Hi Pippin, I’ve been using this plug-in for some time now and love it. Recently I’ve been having the problem of accessing my site while in Maintenance Mode even though my IP address has been entered into the exceptions box. I’m still being redirected to the Maintenance Page. I’ve double-checked my IP address and it’s right. It used to work…….
What version of the plugin are you using?
to add to what I replied to above….free version of plugin
Sorry, I probably should have added my comment at the bottom. Here it is:
Me too! I entered the IP but still cant get in from my ipad (which is the IP I entered, not my computer) I CAN get in on my computer. I am on hostgator site, not localhost.
BUT I have the Headway framework and now I can’t get to the Headway Visual Editor at all…..any ideas? I will have to deactivate your plugin soon to get back to work but I am leaving it so you can see it. I love the plugin but…..
http://e-inkvoices.com
If you enter the IP of your computer, does it work?
Sometimes mobile devices go through a proxy that exposes an IP address other than the one that owns the device.
In addition, some managers change this IP at regular intervals.
See “Andrea Vischi” comment…
Yes, that could certainly explain why some mobile devices don’t work.
Hi again,
So I have entered my computer’s IP. Which I got from Network utility so I am sure it is right. I can get to the dashboard from the computer and work on pages directly (but I cannot use the Headway Visual Editor at all) and whenever I want to View Page, it sends me to the maintenance page: http://e-inkvoices.com/launching-in-may-2013/
The Headway editor probably doesn’t work because it is bypassing the plugin’s IP check system, which is not really surprising.
I am not understanding your response. Suggestion to fix? Are all theses folks using Headway? I also can’t see any pages…..
No, those other responses are related to viewing the site from mobile devices.
For Headway, I don’t think there will be a way (without some custom code) with use the Visual Editor and have it in Maintenance Mode at the same time.
Just to review:
On a live server
Same thing happens on my ipad
When I click on HW Visual editor View ANY page, I get
URL http://e-inkvoices.com/launching-in-may-2013/#layout=single-page-12205
To continue from above….
Okay, I accept that it is incompatible with Headway and you don’t have a suggestion to fix that. I don’t always use the Headway editor and I could work on pages IF I could see then those pages BUT I can’t, as I said above.
I am also using it on a site that is running the Catalyst framework and on that site as well, when I click VIEW PAGE or post, I am redirected to the maintenance page and cannot see the page I am working on. IPs are entered.
Your thoughts on making this work for the WordPress Editor, if not for the Headway Editor?
and on my phone, I can’t see the sites at all–it is a white screen
I fixed it by entering the IP of my home network, not my computers
That’s the one you’re supposed to enter; the outside IP, not your computer’s internal IP.