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How to put the site in maintenance mode Edit

WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ offers a command to enable, disable maintenance mode and check if maintenance mode is
enabled or not.

Step 1 – Check the status

    $ wp maintenance-mode status
    Maintenance mode is not active.

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Step 2 – Enable maintenance mode

    $ wp maintenance-mode activate
    Enabling Maintenance mode...
    Success: Activated Maintenance mode.

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Step 3 – Disable maintenance mode

    $ wp maintenance-mode deactivate
    Disabling Maintenance mode...
    Success: Deactivated Maintenance mode.

Last updated: April 20, 2024

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