Enabling maintenance mode

Maintenance mode is a valuable feature in Ycode that allows you to temporarily take your website offline for updates, testing, or fixes while displaying a friendly message to visitors. This ensures a professional experience for users while preventing access to incomplete or unstable content.

What Does Maintenance Mode Do?

• Displays a customizable maintenance message or page instead of your site’s usual content.

• Prevents new users from accessing the live website during maintenance.

• Allows administrators to continue working or testing behind the scenes.

• Helps avoid negative user experiences during updates or migrations.

How to Enable Maintenance Mode

1. Access Your Project Settings:
   Navigate to your project dashboard and locate general or publishing settings.

2. Activate Maintenance Mode:
   Toggle or select the option to turn on maintenance mode for your site.
   (Ycode will provide the option to customize the message or design shown to visitors.)

3. Configure Access:
   Some setups allow bypassing maintenance mode with a password or IP-based whitelist for admin or team access.

4. Save and Publish:
   Save your settings and publish the site with maintenance mode enabled. Visitors will see the maintenance page until you disable the mode.

When to Use Maintenance Mode

• During major content updates or redesigns.

• While fixing critical bugs or errors.

• Prior to or during site migrations and domain changes.

• Before scheduled launches or releases.

Additional Maintenance Mode Management Tips

• Use a staging environment to test changes safely; learn about it in Setting Up Staging Environments.

• Prepare your domain and SSL certificates as described in Domain and Staging and Do I Need to Set Up SSL for My Custom Domain.

• When ready to go live, publish your updated site using Publishing Your Website.

• If needed, you can temporarily hide your site by Unpublishing a Site.

• Preserve your SEO performance with How to Set Up Redirects to Maintain SEO Ranking.

• Monitor visitor impact and site metrics via Viewing Site Analytics.

Related Resources

• Prepare for domain connection and DNS adjustments at How to Connect a Custom Domain and Managing DNS Settings.

• Safeguard your site migration with guidance in Handling Site Migrations.

• Plan your launch schedule using Scheduling Site Launches.

Technical Documentation

For more information on configuration and workflow automation during maintenance, visit the Ycode Docs.

Enabling maintenance mode in Ycode ensures your users always see a polished experience while you work on your website. For further details, expert tips, or troubleshooting, visit the Ycode Help Center or join the Ycode Community.