Activate Maintenance Mode automatically on updates
Rune Rasmussen
From what I can tell the sites are not set to Maintenance Mode when updating plugins as of today.
This is risky as the updater moves the old plugin version to the temp folder (or in other ways make it unavailable/break), and thus if the site is browsed or running any other actions at that time who calls the plugin being updated, it will fail and potentially create issues. On busy sites you'll often find fatal errors logs for the update times.
There's a reason why WP have the auto activation of Maintenance Mode when updating. ;)
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Valérie Galassi
That's for this reason that I used a maintenance plugin, but when I used the plugin WP Umbrella wasn't able to connect with the websites to update the plugins. I noticed that sometimes the default page of WP is displayed, I would really prefer to have a personalised maintenance page, like I have with the maintenance plugin.
Lukas Cech
Isn't the WP maintenance mode triggered automatically when the plugin update is running through WP Umbrella?
Agree with you - some kind of maintenance mode is essential, we can't have users visiting a page that has some of it's key plugins unavailable at that time.
This will be even more important once update scheduling is live.
Rune Rasmussen
Lukas Cech > Isn't the WP maintenance mode triggered automatically when the plugin update is running through WP Umbrella?
No, it isn't. The site is open to visit and use while updates are running. :/
Lukas Cech
Rune Rasmussen that's quite bad then, especially for high traffic websites. This should be bundled together with scheduled updates:
- allow us to schedule all updates to say midnight on a sunday
- turn maintenance mode on whilst updates are running
#1 is already in progress.
Rune Rasmussen
Lukas Cech yes, that's the only safe way. Today we have "safe updates", who isn't safe. ;)
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Scott W.
Great idea! An option to toggle this feature on and off could be more preferable for some.
Rune Rasmussen
Scott W. you don't have that toggle in WP, the site is set offline whenever you update anything from admin, that's the only safe way to update. I clearly vote against any such toggle, don't add toggles allowing people doing strange and unsafe things. ;)