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Enable/Disable a Holding Page

Enable/Disable a Holding Page

Learning Objective

After reading this guide you should have a better understanding of:

  • How to enable/disable a holding page on your website.

  • How to customise the content displayed.

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Written Guide

Overview

If you are in a scenario where you need to move your website into a site to Maintenance Mode to not allow customers to access the website this can be a useful tool. The holding page could be used for any number of reasons from issues to you needing to pause sales on the website.

 

Turning on the Holding Page

You can do set-up the holding page by going to Settings on the left-hand side, followed by Website Settings and finding the setting called Holding Page.

 

Editing the Holding Page text

You can edit the message displayed here when the site is in maintenance mode by going to Content followed by Language Strings and finding the section called holding_page. 

Here you can choose the text that will appear when the site is moved into maintenance mode.

 

Summary

This guide should have given you the necessary information on how to set up the holding page on your website and alter the displayed content.

Frequently Asked Questions

Our support teams have the ability to alter the IP address that can view the website when the holding page is active. This would be a quick change that can be made by our team, we would just need you to provide the IP address that you wish to browse the site from. This can be found by doing a simple Google search of “What is my IP address“.

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