Comments on: How To Create A Maintenance Page Redirect When WordPress Is Down

By: Jackson25

Jackson25 — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:36:06 +0000

This will be a big help thank you! My only problem is my maintanance.html page is not showing the jpg that is embedded in the page, otherwise the page is being delivered by the redirect just fine. Any reason why that would be?

By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:44:53 +0000

Got that right here for you, Keith: A Complete Guide To Setting Up FeedBurner on WordPress.

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:16:42 +0000

Thanks John

I’ll put the “WP Blog Host” graphic link on tomorrow.

Perhaps in the new year you can say a bit more about the RSS Subscribe image.
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By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:04:51 +0000

Hey Keith – I love the new template. It’s very warm and easy to read. Don’t forget that RSS subscribe image.

It’s been my pleasure and you have a good Christmas, too. We went out and picked up a tree today and the wife and I just finished putting the lights in.

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:32:58 +0000

Hi John
Could have used this post earlier today but I was keen to get my site looking good.
I’ve spent most of the day uploading and configuring my theme and I am more than pleased with it.
Thanks for your help and endless patience along the way and I will certainly implement a maintenance page for the future.
Have a good Christmas
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By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:34:13 +0000

Hi Rian. You couldn’t really use this particular technique because it limits who has access to your site (or if configured, a particular page) to just you.

But… here’s what you can do.

What you need to know is what urls are creating the 404s. Go to Google Webmaster Tools and if you don’t already have a Google account, sign up. From there, you’ll see a way which you can have Google show you all the 404s your website is creating (all the bad links).

Then what you can do is redirect all those bad links to where you want the person to go.

Open up your root .htaccess file and use a code similar to this:

Redirect 301 /a-list-bloggers-are-different/ http://wpbloghost.com/blog/a-list-bloggers-are-different/

I had to do this when I moved my blog into the subdirectory, /blog.

The 301 is telling Google to permanently forget about the old url (the first one) and index it now as this new one (the second one).

You can do this for each of your 404s.

If it’s just a temporary redirect, use code 302.

By: Rian

Rian — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:15:00 +0000

Can we also apply this technique to our Error 404 page not found situations? lately, I have been receiving those reports from my readers.
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