Hi,

Just to let you know that the Maintenance Mode (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maintenance-mode/) plugin seemed to cause Role Scoper difficulties. When I have both plugins activated then I just get 404 type messages on my blog, no content can be found.I don't know how significant or fixable this problem is, I have found it on both WP 2.5.1 and WP 2.6 blogs, but to work around it I have taken Maitenance Mode off my blog and use a different plugin "Lock Out" instead. This seems to work fine.

I have been watching your plugin for a while, but now is my only chance to experiment with it, as I am able to close my blog for a summe holiday. It looks to be really interesting, just what I am looking for for a different project.

Thanks

YikYak

The Maintenance Mode plugin is incompatible with Role Scoper because it forces an early loading of pluggable.php to process the user login and selectively allow front end access during maintenance.

If you can do without this front end access, change maintenance-mode.php as follows:

<!– /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –>

change

&& !mw_current_user_can_access_on_maintenance()

to

// && !mw_current_user_can_access_on_maintenance()

If front-end access during maintenance is essential, it would be possible to port the required WordPress functions into the plugin rather than calling pluggable.php.  However, that would involve some extra plugin maintenance if the WP authentication method changed.