From wordpress org:

Just wanted to let you know that the plugin won’t detect an admin is logged in if the installation of WP is in a subfolder and then configured to work with the root URL.

ie, WP in: domain.com/wp/
with site url set to: domain.com/

The plugin will display maintenance mode but will not detect that I am logged in.

This is not a huge issue, but I hope it can be addressed in the future, as I love this plugin!

Hi!
Some WordPress starter themes (like sage) uses theme wrappers (more detail).
Therefore, for the proper operation of your plugin, I propose to replace this:
add_action('get_header', array( $this, 'maintenance' ));
with this:
add_action('template_redirect', array( $this, 'maintenance' ));

• Possibly replace add_action get_header with template_redirect
• Or find a better, alternative workaround?

Perhaps via admin bar?

I have 2 minor suggestions I make locally to your awesome plugin, that fixes the only 2 issues we always have. I can make a pull request if you prefer, just let me know.

1. Line breaks not respected.
   – In your get_content() method (line 534) of lj-maintenance-mode.php you are using wpautop, but not nl2br. Because you are not using the WordPress get_content, you are losing the line breaks. To fix this simply put nl2br after the wpautop line e.g.
   $content = apply_filters(‘wpautop’, $content);
   $content = nl2br($content);

2. No html wrapper
   – Styling the css is limited because you don’t wrap the content in a div wrapper. If you were to wrap all the content in a div wrap (or even 2 would be better), then the styling possibilities would be far greater. e.g. we usually want our maintenance page to be a logo with contact details, center aligned vertical and horizontal. Without a div wrapper this is not possible.
   – An easy solution is this (line 560):
   return ‘

   ’ . $analytify . $code . $stylesheet . $widget_before . $content . $widget_after . ‘
   ’;

Thanks for such an aweosme plugin, I appreciate the simplicity!!

Add role based options.

When maintenance mode is not enabled, preview mode doesn't work.

Hello,
I am using your Maintenance Mode and I like it.
Because it is very simple and useful.

I have a proposal and posted here. But it is not the issue.
On the top of the web page, current Maintenance Mode status is shown as Disabled or Enabled.
I sometimes confuse it as the site is Disabled or Enabled.
But it means the Maintenance Mode is Disabled or Enabled.
So I think if the message is, for example, Site Hidden or Site Shown, it is better. How about?

From Gordon and his support chat:

In regards to getting everything to work in maintenance mode, you'll need to find out what is preventing WordPress from connecting back to itself while in maintenance mode. WordPress will need to be able to connect back to /wp-cron.php and /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php. A lot of maintenance/coming soon/etc. plugins do not account for the fact that WordPress needs to connect back to itself. And unfortunately, I'm not involved with any of those types of plugins, so I'm not aware of any that are written well and account for the fact that WordPress needs to connect back to itself. You may want to contact the developers of the plugin/application you are using for maintenance mode to see if there is an option within their plugin/application to allow WordPress to connect back to itself. Perhaps through the whitelisting of an IP Address, Hostname, etc.

Hi,
with new version 2.0 of your great plugins, the function get_option( 'wp_user_roles' );
not work on website that change te default $table_prefix to the wp-config.php file like:
$table_prefix = 'newprefix_';

so the correct option name is: get_option( 'newprefix_user_roles' )

I think should be something like this:

global $wpdb;
get_option($wpdb->prefix.'user_roles');

Best regards

Prepare plugin for translation and language packs that are coming to wordpress.

https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2015/09/01/plugin-translations-on-wordpress-org/

From support:
"There is a conflict between Maintence Mode and Page Builder by SiteOrigin plug-in.

When Page Builder by SiteOrigin is active it prevents the maintence mode message from being displayed, ie only the white rectangle is displayed, without a message."

Anyone else having issues?

From Wordpress Support:

esemlabel (@esemlabel)
Maybe the line in public function __construct(), that adds red background to admin_menu_bar button, should be added in ‘admin_bar_menu’ hook, because background is missing at frontend when mm is enabled.

add_action('admin_head', array( $this, 'style' ));

//change to
add_action('admin_bar_menu', array( $this, 'style' ));

I put my site into maintenance mode about a week ago. I was able to access wp-admin OK.
NOW I am locked out by maintenance mode! wp-admin just gives me the maintenance mode screen. How do I get back in? Why has this happened? I've just been updating woocommerce products.
I have access to the site files and database OK. Please help. If all else fails I can restore a backup but I have done many updates during site maintenance and do not want to lose them.
Please Please help.
Thanks.

At the URL below you will see that with maintenance mode enabled, Jetpack share option still displays.

http://530.67b.myftpupload.com/news/what-to-pack.php

Colour class for indicator is based on languages so it breaks if site is in different language.

It would be great to be able to put own template file to be used by Maintenance Mode.
The plugin seems to be simple and developer friendly so such enhancement would provide a lot of flexibility.

To be implemented.

Wordpress forums transcript

Serious issue when Enabled
esemlabel (@esemlabel)
1 hour, 43 minutes ago
Hi there,

The main reason I use “lj maintenance mode” is for updating active theme files.
But after enabling Maintenance Mode, the message page with 503 status appears only if a folder of the active theme exist on server. So when enabling 503 and delete active theme folder after that, the empty page with status code 200 will appear instead of 503, until the new revision of theme is finished copying, for example via ftp.

I think the maintenance page shouldn’t be dependent on existing of plugin’ or theme’s files at all, because mostly Maintenance Mode is enabled to update something like themes or plugin.

Thanks!

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Plugin AuthorLukas Juhas (@lukasneptun) 
1 hour, 29 minutes ago
Hi there,

The plugin itself is not dependant on the theme, it’s a standalone plugin which uses core WordPress function so I don’t think this has something to do with the plugin.

It would probably worth trying this with different maintenance plugins as I think the same problem will occur just because WordPress is dependant on the theme etc.

I fear that this is something I cannot control via plugin but I’m welcome to suggestions.

At the end, is it worth developing a solution for a few seconds, maybe couple of minutes while new files get’s uploaded?

WordPress handles updates by placing a “.maintenance” file in the root which then gives you the message “briefly unavailable for maintenance” but of course that applies only for updates – not whilst copying files.

I would be more than happy if anyone has a good and simple idea of a workaround, otherwise I don’t think I can do much.

I hope that helps at least a bit.

Lukas

esemlabel (@esemlabel) 
26 minutes ago
Maybe you can use one of these solutions?

1. The plugin can change the active theme to any temporary one with just a single empty index.php in it on a fly when enabling, and reactivate main theme when disabling maintenance. BUT it is not a good idea since many themes do a lot on ‘after_switch_theme’ hook. Unless you can bypass all main theme functions that uses this or similar hooks, grab their names – then temporary remove_action in foreach() when restoring main theme.

2. Generate a copy of maintenance page from its settings page into /wp-content/maintenance.php file (delete on plugin deactivating). The WP will use this file not only when plugin’s maintenance mode is enabled, but for its plugins and core updates too, instead of boring ‘Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.’ message. One more thing you need is creat .maintenance file with <?php $upgrading = time(); ?> in it, and delete on disabling maintenance mode. But remember to recreat .maintenance file on load if it was deleted after core or any other wp updates has finished, if ‘ljmm-enabled’ is still enabled. After creating /wp-content/maintenance.php file you will see active Drop-in on plugins page:


I prefer the 2 one, it looks more simple and fast.

I recently started using your plugin because I find it simple and functional, so perfect.
If you have time it would be really great if you could take a look at it and fix it to make it work again to the latest version.

Thanks!

The menu item Admin bar takes up a lot of precious horizontal pixel space.

"Maintenance Mode: Enabled"
"Maintenance Mode: Disabled"

Having this appear all the time even when the Disabled state is going to be nearly all the time doesn't make sense. Also the text is unnecessarily long.

• Feature request: either have the Admin bar item not displayed when Maintenance Mode is Disabled, OR have an option to have it or not in settings
• Feature request: change the text displayed in the Admin bar a lot shorter, such as: Maint:On / Maint:Off. Same meaning, less screen real estate.

Add WPML compatibility.

Hi!
I cannot grasp where default styles are coming from.
I use maintenance.min.css but it clashes with injected styles before.
I want to get rid of them:

<style type="text/css">
		html {
			background: #f1f1f1;
		}
		body {
			background: #fff;
			color: #444;
			font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;
			margin: 2em auto;
			padding: 1em 2em;
			max-width: 700px;
			-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.13);
			box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.13);
		}
		h1 {
			border-bottom: 1px solid #dadada;
			clear: both;
			color: #666;
			font-size: 24px;
			margin: 30px 0 0 0;
			padding: 0;
			padding-bottom: 7px;
		}
		#error-page {
			margin-top: 50px;
		}
		#error-page p {
			font-size: 14px;
			line-height: 1.5;
			margin: 25px 0 20px;
		}
		#error-page code {
			font-family: Consolas, Monaco, monospace;
		}
		ul li {
			margin-bottom: 10px;
			font-size: 14px ;
		}
		a {
			color: #0073aa;
		}
		a:hover,
		a:active {
			color: #00a0d2;
		}
		a:focus {
			color: #124964;
		    -webkit-box-shadow:
		    	0 0 0 1px #5b9dd9,
				0 0 2px 1px rgba(30, 140, 190, .8);
		    box-shadow:
		    	0 0 0 1px #5b9dd9,
				0 0 2px 1px rgba(30, 140, 190, .8);
			outline: none;
		}
		.button {
			background: #f7f7f7;
			border: 1px solid #ccc;
			color: #555;
			display: inline-block;
			text-decoration: none;
			font-size: 13px;
			line-height: 26px;
			height: 28px;
			margin: 0;
			padding: 0 10px 1px;
			cursor: pointer;
			-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
			-webkit-appearance: none;
			border-radius: 3px;
			white-space: nowrap;
			-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
			-moz-box-sizing:    border-box;
			box-sizing:         border-box;

			-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 #ccc;
			box-shadow: 0 1px 0 #ccc;
		 	vertical-align: top;
		}

		.button.button-large {
			height: 30px;
			line-height: 28px;
			padding: 0 12px 2px;
		}

		.button:hover,
		.button:focus {
			background: #fafafa;
			border-color: #999;
			color: #23282d;
		}

		.button:focus  {
			border-color: #5b9dd9;
			-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba( 0, 115, 170, .8 );
			box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba( 0, 115, 170, .8 );
			outline: none;
		}

		.button:active {
			background: #eee;
			border-color: #999;
		 	-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 2px 5px -3px rgba( 0, 0, 0, 0.5 );
		 	box-shadow: inset 0 2px 5px -3px rgba( 0, 0, 0, 0.5 );
		 	-webkit-transform: translateY(1px);
		 	-ms-transform: translateY(1px);
		 	transform: translateY(1px);
		}

			</style>

As per request / suggestion - add setting to change meta title while in maintenance mode.

Update screenshot displaying settings page as it's outdated.

From Jack on WP Support forums:
"I've used the plugin and worked on my site for a day before I turned it off again. Now I notice almost 2000 not found url's and about 200 found server errors in Google Webmaster Tools. I've never had that before with other maintenance mode plugins. I love it by the way that it is so simple and light."

possible solution: nofollow meta tag

Add Theme My Login support.

Took me around an hour to figure out that this plugin will not work with my latest installation of Wordpress....which was using 2022 theme, (as default)

By the way, I tried three other similar "coming soon" plugins, all of them were also not working with 2022 theme of Wordpress. I guess they have made a huge change which is no longer compatible with the old themes and plugins.

Add qTranslate compatibility.

Ref:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multilanguage-pre-path-mode-cache?replies=8
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/on-503-maintenance-can-reach-default-language-site-one-time

Considering switching wp_die() template to a custom one with bit of more flexibility. Would you prefer to keep plugin as it is or would you prefer to have a bit more flexibility, such as change background colour, change width etc. ?

Possible poll in the next update.

Add possible filter for maintenance mode so it's possible to add extra / specific rules,

e.g. if using plugin that changes the login page location to front end for example, developer can add a rule where if it's that specific login page, do not show maintenance mode if enabled.

This should add a bit more flexibility.

To be added soon...

Jerry Hudgins (@laureldigital)
This is a very useful plugin; thanks for your work on it.

I’d like to suggest a small feature enhancement to make it even more useful: simple enable/disable support via WP-CLI command. This would permit temporary lockout of new user-generated content or E-commerce transactions during cron-driven scripted operations such as backup or content import.

From WordPress plugins review by https://profiles.wordpress.org/otinokyad

"If you are running a caching plugin -- I am using WP Super Cache -- be advised that enabling M. Mode may appear not to have any effect. If that happens to you, go to the settings page for your cache plugin and empty/clear/delete the cache, assuming that it gives you that capability (WP Super Cache does), before you enable M. Mode. And the same after you disable it -- empty/clear/delete the cache, otherwise your M. Mode message will continue to appear!"

Either find solution to clear cache when enabled or disabled, or add notice if cache plugin exists, to clear the cahce in order to make it work properly.

Any other ideas ?