{"id":62516,"date":"2011-11-12T16:06:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T21:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=62516"},"modified":"2013-04-20T18:59:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T22:59:43","slug":"daily-tip-a-maintenance-mode-plugin-for-wordpress-multisite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-a-maintenance-mode-plugin-for-wordpress-multisite\/","title":{"rendered":"A Maintenance Mode Plugin for WordPress Multisite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most maintenance plugins don&#8217;t work smoothly with WordPress multisite networks, but I found one that I&#8217;d like to recommend. <a title=\"WordPress Multisite Maintenance Mode\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wpms-site-maintenance-mode\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WPMS Site Maintenance Mode<\/a> was actually made just for multisite. It allows the super admin to put the entire network, main site, or subsites into maintenance mode. There&#8217;s also an option to customize the appearance of the maintenance page and set a time for the site to return.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the settings page:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63533\" title=\"wpms-maintenance\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/wpms-maintenance.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"741\" height=\"625\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once you turn it on you&#8217;ll get something like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63534\" title=\"coffee-break\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/coffee-break.png\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"625\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I tested <a title=\"WordPress Multisite Maintenance Mode\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wpms-site-maintenance-mode\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WPMS Site Maintenance Mode<\/a> this weekend and I&#8217;d recommend this <a href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/20-essential-plugins-for-wordpress-multisite\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress multisite plugin<\/a> to any network admin who needs a quick way to bring the stie(s) down for a few updates. Download it for free from the WordPress plugin repository.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grab this free plugin that lets you quickly put your multisite network into maintenance mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":63542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1117,4],"tags":[],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-62516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multisite","category-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216590,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62516\/revisions\/216590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62516"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=62516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}