ControlledChaos
5/9/2017 - 3:18 PM

Example WordPress .maintenance file. maintenance.php is optional but useful for styling the message the public will see (it is also used whe

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 components), drop it in your wp-content folder.

<?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();
	}
}
<?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 */