Disable Site
by Jimmy K. 5 (24 reviews)

Disable Site

A WordPress plugin to disable your website front-end and display a message to your visitors while still allowing back-end access.

Disable Site ranks #3,448 among WordPress.org plugins with 4,000+ active installations, is #137 of 1,518 in the Performance category, a 5/5 rating from 24 reviews, and was last updated Dec 29, 2014. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 4.1 (Current: 7.1)
vtrunk Current Version vtrunk
Updated 11 years ago Last Update on 29 Dec, 2014
Refreshed 11 hours ago Last Refreshed on
#137 of 1,518 in Performance Top 5% by installs Downloads -22.9% this week No update in over a year
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#3,448
+1 this week
Active Installs
4K+
-13.1%
KW Avg Position
96
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Downloads
106.5K
+13 today
Support Resolved
0%
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Rating
100%
Review 5 out of 5
5 (24 reviews)

Next Milestone 5K

Total Progress 62%
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Growth +0.0%
Peak 0,000,000

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Reviews & Ratings

5.0
24 reviews
Overall 100%
5
24 (100%)
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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

No known vulnerabilities on record for Disable Site. Checked 1 day ago.

TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and administrators who need to take their front-end offline temporarily. It solves the problem of showing visitors a custom splash or coming-soon message while still allowing back-end access, admin preview, or bypass for authenticated users and specific IPs.

  • One-click enable/disable
  • Custom HTML/CSS splash page
  • Admin front-end bypass
  • Authenticated user bypass
  • IP address bypass
  • Coming soon page display

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Disable Site

Simply navigate to the configuration page for the plugin and set the textfield labeled Custom Message to your custom message.
There are two ways to do this: via the configuration page for the plugin, or in code. To specify your own HTML via the configuration page, navigate to the configuration page and paste your HTML and/or CSS into the field labeled Custom HTML Output. To specify your own HTML in code, paste the following in your functions.php file and customize it to suit your needs. if ($disable_site_plugin) { $disable_site_plugin->set_output_html( 'This is an example of <strong>custom</strong> HTML output.' ); }
Yes it can! You can use any HTML, CSS, and/or JavaScript that you need.
Simply navigate to the configuration page for the plugin and set the dropdown labeled Enable Splash Page to No.
Simply navigate to the configuration page for the plugin and set the dropdown labeled Admin Access to Yes.
Simply navigate to the configuration page for the plugin and set the dropdown labeled Authenticated User Access to Yes.
Simply navigate to the configuration page for the plugin and enter each IP address into the textarea labeled Allowed IPs (each one on it's own line).

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