About this plugin

This plugin helps you to notify your visitors and search engine crawlers if your page is currently not available. You can specify a page, that contain your own fail-whale. That page will be send to the clients with a standard confirm 503 statuscode.

Installation

  1. Download the recent version of the Maintenance-plugin
  2. Extract the archive
  3. Copy the /maintenance directory to the /wolf/plugin directory of your installation
  4. Activate the plugin in the Administration tab
  5. Create a page with the Maintenance behaviour at root level.

Usage

The site can be set to maintenance mode in the Maintenace Mode-Tab of the administration interface.

Changelog

0.2.2
added german translation
0.2.1
changed license to the New BSD License
added support for Mike Tuupola´s Dashboard plugin
0.2.0
changed name of maintenance_check() to maintenance_status()
improved maintenance page loading
insert notification when user has no behaviour page
0.1.1
append a small function to check the maintenance status
0.1.0
initial release

For developers

You can check if the plugin is enabled using Plugin::isEnabled('maintenance') and then, you can check if the page is in maintenance mode using maintenance_status().