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.
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Scott W.
Great idea! An option to toggle this feature on and off could be more preferable for some.