IPv6 subnet

Hello @markcanada,

I don’t understand your question. Do you want to exclude an IPv6 subnet from maintenance mode? Unfortunately, we have no plans to add this feature soon.

If you have a dynamic IP address, you should authenticate to see the website.

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George

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by George J.

Hi George

Yes, you understood correctly. It’s too bad you don’t plan on including that soon.
Our ISP gives a permanent IPv6/56 subnet to our router and when a computer connects to it one of those public IPv6 addresses is handed out to each computer at the time.
It’s just a different one each time.
So every time a new network connection is established we need to add/change the IPv6 address to the exclusion to see the site in a non-logged-in state if we work on functionality that is different for not logged in users.
Also – because of this we can not exclude our clients’ IPv6 address so they can easily preview the site if they are on IPv6.

Mark

@markcanada I understand your point of view on this, and we will certainly add the feature in a future release. Unfortunately, I can’t give you an ETA because we already have a lot of other feature requests (most of them much more demanded than this one) in the queue.

You can also extend the plugin by writing a custom exclusion mechanism if you have the right skills (PHP + WordPress). See the ‘wpmm_is_excluded‘ filter.

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George

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by George J.

Hi George

Thanks for the info. I understand that you probably have other things to do but wanted to make sure that you are aware and planning to deal with what’s happening when IPv6 rolls out further.
The filter thing is interesting. I haven’t done any work with filters but am familiar with some WordPress programming. Let’s see who finds the time first ??

Thanks for the great plugin
Mark