nickvw

I don’t think we are using a caching plug-in. But in the process of building our website, we did install a handful of plug-ins that are not being used anymore. I’ll try to get those cleaned up.

But for now, here’s the list of plug-ins that are active on our site. Do you see any that may cause a problem?

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Akismet Anti-Spam — plan to keep this one
Contact Widgets
Elementor — plan to keep this one
Force Login — plan to keep
GoDaddy Email Marketing
Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights — plan to keep
Gravity Forms
MailChimp for WordPress — plan to keep?
Ninja Forms
Very Simple Website Closed ??
WordPress Importer
WP Subscribe
WP101 Video Tutorials

Guido,

Thank you for the replies.

I was able to modify the code of your plug-in. I found the strings, and changed them just as you described.

To test it, I changed the “Closed” day to today (Tuesday). When I refresh the page on my laptop, it enters Website Closed mode, just as it should.

On my mobile phone however, the website remained available (not in Closed mode), even after closing the internet browser several times, and refreshing multiple times, on multiple different phones. I restarted my phone. I also forced my phone to use the Desktop site, and also tried using 4G data instead of my home Wi-Fi. I left Closed enabled for 30 minutes while I tried these various things, and my phone still did not enter Closed mode, no matter what I did.

All this while, the Desktop version behaved just as it should.

Do you have any other ideas of what to try? Does the mobile version of the website/plug-in behave differently, or get it’s time stamp from somewhere else?

Right now (5pm central time, Monday), the website is still in Sabbath mode. I checked it on desktop and mobile, and from other IP addresses, and they’re all the same problem.

Guido,

I’ve been checking the past few Sundays, and right now (6:21AM Central Time), it is still on Sabbath mode, both on my mobile and desktop computer. I refreshed the page several times.

Last week it came on around 7-8am. The week before it was 11:30AM.

Our website does not get many visitors. Is it possible it takes a few visitors for the website to “wake up” from Sabbath mode?

Hi Guido,

Thanks for the reply!

It was set on UTC-5, actually, which would be correct, since we’re observing Daylight Savings Time now.

I changed it to Chicago now, which should be the same thing.

It looks like this:
Universal time (UTC) is 2019-04-12 03:01:02. Local time is 2019-04-11 22:01:02.

I don’t see how to attached a pic, or I’d attach a screenshot…