Maintenance Mode
Aurelio Volle
Merged in a post:
Customized maintenance pages
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Alexander Harmsen
Possibility to customize and have WP Umbrella show said customized maintenance page should plugin, theme, or core updates cause users to see the horrible standard Worpress maintenance screen.
Rune Rasmussen
Thomas Deneulin (CTO WP Umbrella)
Aurelio Volle
The two posts you have merged here isn't about the same thing ...
JC is asking for a manually applied maintenance mode, my is more about something who actually is a bug in WP Umbrella, regarding the automatic applied maintenance mode for the time updates are running.
The sites really needs to go AUTOMATICALLY into maintenance mode for the FULL TIME of ANY UPDATES running.
Huge difference in those two posts and "feature requests"...
Aurelio Volle
Merged in a post:
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. ;)
Rune Rasmussen
It's really important that you get the maintenance mode to last as long as updates are running, not just (partly) for the first updated plugin on each site, as the case seems to be now.
If a update is running, and the site isn't in maintenance mode, it will in quite many cases cause issues, sometimes huge issues when the plugins isn't available to run at that moment someone visits/refresh the site.
From a visitors side it might cause broken views and error messages, for a site owner it could fill up error logs, give broken data (webshops etc.), and even plugins being disabled (active state changed) - and not being activated again without doing so manually from site admin.
Honestly I'm having a hard time understanding why you haven't given it any priority yet, it's fare more important than many of the things you have been working with the last years. T.ex. working on a visual regression monitoring is nice, but better fix the issues causing visual regressions first. ;)
The maintenance mode should be activated before any updates start, and not be deactivated before WPU have confirmed all is updated (gotten the success signal).
@Thomas Deneulin (CTO WP Umbrella)
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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. ;)
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Andy Topley
Additionally allow the ability to provide a bypass URL so clients can view a maintenance mode site without needing to login
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Valérie Galassi
I agree, it would be very great. it avoids to install an another plugin.
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Gaye Nilson
Yes this is another thing that ManageWP has and it's very handy
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