Title: WordPress update
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# WordPress update

 *  [ABosCT](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abosct/)
 * (@abosct)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-update-13/)
 * Hi
 * Im wondering if you guys might have any advice for me. A few weeks ago we had
   a website transferred to our hosting provider. The website wasn’t maintained 
   and is still running on wordpress 3.0.1 I think. I want to update wordpress obviously
   and then swop the theme that is currently being used on the site with another
   one.
 * The only problem Im having is: I need to activate a maintenance mode page / coming
   soon page so that no one can see the site while Im running updates and changing
   the theme etc. However, when I install my preferred coming soon plugin, there
   is no option for me to save or include a message. We use this plugin all the 
   time on other sites and have never had an issue.
 * a) Could the plugin not be working properly because the version of wordpress 
   is so old?
    b) is it risky to do such a big jump from version 3 to version 4?
   Would it ruin anything on my site?
 * Our hosting provider only does a backup tomorrow at 2am so if something does 
   go wrong then I cant really roll the site back 24 hours.
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/)
 * (@leejosepho)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-update-13/#post-5586392)
 * > I need to activate a maintenance mode page / coming soon page so that no one
   > can see the site while Im running updates and changing the theme etc.
 * Make your own html page with whatever name and then edit your htaccess to call
   it in place of the index.php normally used by WordPress:
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       ### Extra Options
       ## choose for default.html
       #RewriteRule . /default.html [L]
       ## choose for index.html
       #RewriteRule . /index.html [L]
       ## choose for WordPress index.php
       RewriteRule . /maintenance.html [L]
       ## choose for WordPress index.php
       #RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 * However, that will not redirect *all* traffic to there unless you add to the 
   above for doing so.
 * > a) Could the plugin not be working properly because the version of wordpress
   > is so old?
 * That *could* be the case, but I have never had any plugin like that work for 
   me.
 * > b) is it risky to do such a big jump from version 3 to version 4? Would it 
   > ruin anything on my site?
 * The big question there is about database updates being made as part of certain
   WordPress updates, and you would definitely want a complete database backup before
   proceeding. However, all of your content (uploads and such) in your /wp-content/
   folder should not be affected.
 * Edit: I just now happened to see this:
    [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/should-i-upgrade-35-to-401?replies=3#post-6341494](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/should-i-upgrade-35-to-401?replies=3#post-6341494)

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## Tags

 * [Updates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/updates/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-update-13/#post-5586392)
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