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WordPress

desiredpersona
desiredpersona
4,481 Points
Posted by desiredpersona
desiredpersona
4,481 Points

Wordpress Maintenance Mode

hello,

I am currently developing a live wordpress site that is ranking number 1 in google for its exact match keyword. (Not much competition for keyword.)

I want to show a landing page for visitors without hurting my homepage ranking.

I turned on wordpress maintenance mode without using a plugin by adding the following code to a .maintenance file and putting it in wordpress root.

<?php function is_user_logged_in() { $loggedin = false; foreach ( (array) $COOKIE as $cookie => $value ) { if ( stristr($cookie, 'wordpress_logged_in') ) $loggedin = true; } return $loggedin; } if ( ! stristr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/wp-admin') && ! stristr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/wp-login.php') && ! is_user_logged_in() ) $upgrading = time(); ?>

Then in the wp-content directory i added maintenance.php file so i can style the landing page.

<code> <?php $protocol = $_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]; if ( 'HTTP/1.1' != $protocol && 'HTTP/1.0' != $protocol ) $protocol = 'HTTP/1.0'; header( "$protocol 503 Service Unavailable", true, 503 ); header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' ); ?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <body> <h1>Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.</h1> </body> </html> <?php die(); ?>

</code>

Is there a better way to do this from an SEO point of view?

2 Answers

Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
1,901 Points
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
1,901 Points

While I'm not an SEO expert, putting your site in that mode shouldn't hurt your ranking.