During the operation of the website, we often encounter situations where we need to maintain, upgrade the website, or temporarily close the website for certain special reasons.How can you inform visitors about the current status of the website in a friendly manner, to avoid them seeing a chaotic or error page, which is particularly important.AnQiCMS fully considers this need, built-in a convenient and flexible website shutdown prompt function, allowing you to easily deal with such scenarios.

Flexible website status configuration, easily enable shutdown mode

The shutdown feature of Aiqi CMS is very intuitive. You just need to log in to the website backend, navigate to“Backend Settings”the menu under“Global Settings”Options. Here you will find an item named“Website Status”The setting item.Through the dropdown menu, you can select to switch the website status to 'Offline'.Once selected and saved, the website will immediately enter maintenance mode, ceasing to provide normal content access.

Right after the "Website Status" option isStation Closure NoticeInput box.This area is the window through which you communicate information to visitors.You can fill in detailed shutdown notifications here according to the actual situation, such as 'The website is under upgrade and is expected to resume in X hours', 'System maintenance, please visit later', or 'Server failure, we are handling it urgently' and so on.This prompt information will be displayed directly to the visitor, ensuring they understand the reason for the website being inaccessible at their first glance.

A custom shutdown page to enhance user experience

In addition to simple text prompts, Anqi CMS also grants you the ability to highly customize the landing page of the closed station. The system provides a dedicated template file -errors/close.htmlUsed to render the page content when the website is in a shutdown state. This file is located in the directory of the template theme you are currently using, the specific path is usually/template/您的模板目录/errors/close.html.

This means you can freely edit it just like designing a regular web page.errors/close.htmlYou can:

  • integrate brand elementsIntegrate the website's logo, brand colors, and other visual identification systems into the page to maintain brand image consistency.
  • Enrich the prompt content[en]Besides the core closed station information, you can also add contact information, social media links, and even some humorous and interesting copy to alleviate the visitor's waiting mood.
  • [en]Optimize the visual effectsThrough custom CSS styles and JavaScript scripts, you can create a beautiful, responsive standalone page that provides a good visual experience to users even when the website is not available.
  • Inform the recovery planIf the recovery time of the website can be estimated, it should be clearly displayed on the page to effectively reduce user anxiety and churn.

When the website enters the shutdown state, all access attempts will be redirected to this byerrors/close.htmlThe page presented by the template. This not only avoids the bad experience of users seeing error codes or blank pages, but also conveys a professional image that the website is being managed and maintained.

In summary, the shutdown prompt feature of Anqi CMS is an operational tool that combines practicality and flexibility.Through simple backend settings and personalized template customization, you can easily maintain communication with users during website maintenance, minimize negative impact, and maintain good user relationships.

Common Questions (FAQ)

1. Will website closure affect search engine indexing?

2. Does the Anqi CMS support scheduled closure and automatic recovery functions?Currently, the 'Timing Shutdown' or 'Automatic Recovery' feature is not directly provided in the Anqi CMS backend settings.The shutdown status of the website needs to be manually turned on and off in the "Global Settings".After you complete the maintenance work, you need to log back into the background and manually switch the 'Website Status' back to normal operation.

3. Does the shutdown prompt page support inserting images or videos in the content?Yes, the content of the shutdown prompt page is managed byerrors/close.htmlTemplate file rendering, you can freely insert HTML code in this template file, including images (<img>tags), videos (<video>Tags or embedded code, as well as custom CSS styles and JavaScript scripts, to create a highly customized landing page.While the "shutdown prompt" input box is typically used to enter plain text information.