{"id":1644,"date":"2012-08-02T13:21:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T13:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/08\/02\/change-offline-message\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T02:01:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T07:01:11","slug":"change-offline-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/change-offline-message\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change the Offline Message in Joomla 3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_site-offline-message.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"687\" height=\"378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_site-offline-message.gif\" class=\"optimized-lcp-image\" alt=\"site-offline-message\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>When you <a href=\"\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/site-offline\/\">set your Joomla 3.0 site to be in offline mode<\/a>, the following message by default is shown to users:<\/p>\n<p><strong>This site is down for maintenance.<\/strong><br>\n<em>Please check back again soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this Joomla 3.0 tutorial, we\u2019ll show you how to change this offline message.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>To change your Joomla 3.0 maintenance mode message:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/how-to-log-in-to-administrative-dashboard\/\">Log into your \/administrator dashboard for Joomla 3.0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In the left menu, click the <strong>Global Configuration<\/strong> link<\/li>\n<li>Ensure you are on the Site tab by clicking <strong>Site<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Under the <strong>Site Settings<\/strong> header, find the <strong>Custom Message<\/strong> setting. By default, it is set to:\n<pre class=\"code_block\">This site is down for maintenance.&lt;br \/&gt; Please check back again soon.<\/pre>\n<p>As you can see based upon the use of &lt;br \/&gt;, HTML code is allowed in the Custom Message.<\/p>\n<p>Change your <strong>Custom Message<\/strong> and then click <strong>Save<\/strong> in the top left of the page.<\/p>\n<p>In our testing, we changed our offline message to:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"code_block\">&lt;p&gt;This site is currently in offline mode.&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;We apologize for any inconvenience.&lt;\/p&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>After saving this setting, you can see in the screenshot below how this changed our offline page:<br>\n<a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_after-custom-message-has-been-set.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss size-full wp-image-8119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_after-custom-message-has-been-set.gif\" alt=\"after-custom-message-has-been-set\" width=\"696\" height=\"354\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you set your Joomla 3.0 site to be in offline mode, the following message by default is shown to users: This site is down for maintenance. 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