How to put website under coming soon/maintenance mode with Bricks?

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Hi, I’m quite new to WordPress and Bricks in general. Was curious of how to properly put a website under coming soon or maintenance mode?

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Hello @pnha

You are not able to do this natively in Bricks at the moment, although It is on the Ideas board here Ideas – Bricks make sure to give it a thumbs up if its something you need.

I haven’t checked, but there are free 3rd party plugins capable of doing this for you. I haven’t tested them out on a Bricks installation, but cannot see why it would not work.

One I have used in the past is this: Maintenance – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org

Good luck :slight_smile:

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Hi @Michael, thank you very much for the answer and suggestions :slight_smile:

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Just temporarily set another homepage via the WordPress settings. Problem solved.

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This would be a great idea. However, how would you prevent people from accessing the site by manually entering a URL in the address bar? They would need to be redirected to the page temporarily set as maintenance mode.

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As mentioned above, no native way yet, there are some plugins for this, but you can also:

  1. Set a redirect if user is not logged in for every page but the homepage (with maintenance info) and login page.
  2. or try to play around with conditional display using bricks/element/render filter and render page content only if user is logged in and it is not homepage or login page.
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This function is available with MaxAddons(https://wpbricksaddons.com). If you have it already.

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Exactly. Set up a custom page with the content, as for the header/footer use conditions to exclude that particular page and then make it a home page in wp setting

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Amazing!!! thank yuou

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I just did it with this program, and it was so simple, and the first template out of the box was looking great. Simple:
image

If somebody needs this in the future.

Love!

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The simplest and least bloated way is by utilizing this code snippet (I pasted it from the WPCodeBox snippet repository):

<?php

add_action('get_header', function() {
 
    if(!current_user_can('manage_options')){
    
        wp_die('The site is in maintenance mode, please check back later.', 
        'The site is in maintenance mode, please check back later.', array('response' => '503'));
    }
});

The only downside is that you can’t customize the look of the maintenance page. Only the message which is displayed.

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Which program? Mind to share?

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CMP - Coming soon & Maintenance Plugin.

I added an image with the name of the plugin, can’t you see it :blush:? I have tried some plugins before for this task, and this one by far the most straight forward and simple way to output something beautiful/interesting as coming soon page.

The simplest and least bloated way is by utilizing this code snippet (I pasted it from the WPCodeBox snippet repository):

Yeah, you can do that creating a .maintenance file on the root of the WordPress install in the server, but as you said, it is just plain an unattractive. If you want to build some hype, a specialized option is better. But for the simplest of the needs, is great indeed.

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Ops…I noticed that but didn’t aware that is the name. Haha!

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Create a page with slug/title maintenance (example.com/maintenance/) and redirect any other request to this page. If you type example.com/maintenance/?access=allow-access, then the request will pass thru (same for the admins - without need to type ?access=allow-access).
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<?php
add_action('template_redirect', function () {
    $secrete_pass = 'allow-access';
    $maintenance_url = '/maintenance/';
    $protocol = 'http://';

    $user_is_admin = current_user_can('manage_options');
    if ($user_is_admin) return;

    if(($_GET['access'] ?? '') === $secrete_pass ) return;

    if (
        ($_SERVER['HTTPS'] ?? '') === 'on' ||
        ($_SERVER['HTTPS'] ?? 0) === 1 ||
        ($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] ?? 'http') === 'https'
    ) {
        $protocol = 'https://';
    }

    $path = wp_make_link_relative($protocol . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
    if ($path !== $maintenance_url) exit(wp_redirect(home_url($maintenance_url), 307));
});
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Hi! Yes. I noticed that, but I wasn’t aware of the name is the plugin. Shame on me! :sweat_smile:

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Beautiful, thanks :pray:t4: :blush:

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No shame at all buddy :blush::green_heart:

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Another way would be like this:

<?php

add_action('get_header', function() {
    
    $coming_soon_page_id = 2;
    $excluded_page_ids = array(58,24,13);//All pages that should not be redirected to the coming soon page, must be an array
    
    //Stop editing
    $current_page_id = get_the_ID();
    
    if( !current_user_can('manage_options')
        && !in_array($current_page_id, $excluded_page_ids)
        && $current_page_id != $coming_soon_page_id ){
    
      wp_redirect( get_permalink($coming_soon_page_id) );
        exit;
    }
});
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Hello Rados, great initiative and congratulations.
But I have a doubt regarding SEO best practices. The status code was set as 307, the correct would be 503 for SEO issues.

I took an example below.

$protocol = $_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] == 'HTTP/1.1' ? 'HTTP/1.1' : 'HTTP/1.0';
header($protocol . ' 503 Service Unavailable', TRUE, 503);
header('Retry-After: 3600');

Big question I don’t know how to use in your code, can you help me?