🔧 Edgy
The Skinny
Need a lightning-fast, on-demand maintenance page? Well you're lookin' at it. Edgy is a customizeable maintenance page that can be toggled on and off as needed. It can even be set up on a per-route basis if you don't need to take your entire site offline.
How to Install
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Configuration
Edgy is dirt simple to set up. You can get the gist of it from the installation page, but we'll dig into the nuts and bolts below.
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Edgy is available in three Tiers — Free, Plus, and Pro. The Free tier includes a configureable global maintenance page, the Plus plan unlocks custom templates, and the Pro plan gives you route-based maintenance pages.
The following Default Page Options are available for all tiers:
These Custom Template Options are available on the Plus and Pro tiers:
These Route Based Options are available on the Pro tier:
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Page Templates are displayed in rank order. Route Template has precedence over Custom Template, which has precendence over Default Page. For example, A Pro user may use the Default Page on selected routes by leaving Custom Template and Route Template blank.
Activate Maintenance Mode all
Activate maintenance mode globally.
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This option overrides any route-based Activate Maintenance Mode selections.
Default Page Options free plus pro
The Default Page is available to all users. Plus and Pro users may use the Default Page by leaving Custom Template and Route Templates blank. It will be displayed without the 🔌 by edgy attribution.
Site Name
The name of your site to be displayed in the <title> attribute of the Default Maintenance Page. The title of the page will be [Site Name] | Under Maintenance.
Heading Text
The Heading text to display in the Default Maintenance Page.
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The Heading Text is "We're undergoing a bit of scheduled maintenance" in the Themes images below.
Subheading Text
The Subheading text to display in the Default Maintenance Page.
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The Subheading Text is "We'll be back online" in the Themes images below.
Theme
Choose from one of the following themes for the Default Maintenance Page.
Black & White Theme
Rustic Theme
Modern Theme
Surreal Theme
Custom Template Options plus pro
Custom Template
Template to display as your maintenance page. If this is unset, the Default Maintenance Page will be displayed. All media sources must be hosted by another provider. Refer to the following table for more information.
| Image src attribute | Result |
|---|---|
../assets/my-image.png | 🤮 |
http://somehost.com/my-image.png | 🎉 |
WARNING
Do not include base64 encoded images in your template due to strict template size restrictions.
Route Based Options pro
Route URL
The maintenance page will be displayed on this URL. This can be any URL on your domain and can include subdomains. It is important that a full URL is specified here. Edgy won't like it if you supply a path like /store here. It requires a URL like yoursite.com/store to work right. Here's some more examples in an informative table.
| Route URL | Result |
|---|---|
/sad/path | 🤮 |
yoursite.com/cool-beans | 🎉 |
blog.yoursite.com | 🎉 |
Edgy will automatically display for any requests to subfolders of Route URL. In the table above, traffic to blog.yoursite.com/topics will also go to the maintenance page.
Route Template pro
Maintenance template to display on this route. If this is unset, the Custom Template will be displayed instead. All media sources must be hosted by another provider. Refer to the following table for more information.
| Image src attribute | Result |
|---|---|
../assets/my-image.png | 🤮 |
http://somehost.com/my-image.png | 🎉 |
WARNING
Do not include base64 encoded images in your template due to strict template size restrictions.
Activate Maintenance Mode pro
Activate maintenance mode on this route only. The rest of your website will still behave normally.
Attributions
The Default Maintenance Page gear logo was designed by Icongeek26 at FlatIcon.
The Default Maintenance Page surreal drawings were made by a talented human at Absurd Design.