Description
Maintenance plugin allows the WordPress site administrator to close the website for maintenance, enable “503 Service temporarily unavailable”, set a temporary page with authorization, which can be edited via the plugin settings. Easy customize the good look on all devices. Add your logo, background image, select the desired color, add text. Maintenance uses Bunny Fonts for EU GDPR compliance.
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Features
- retina ready HTML/CSS layout
- Full-screen background (Backstretch)
- Blur background effect
- Upload your own logo
- Configurable colors: fonts, icons, background
- Customize title, headline, text
- User login on frontend
- Admin bar status
- 503 error on/off
- Google analytics support
- Exclude selected pages from Maintenance mode
- Support for all popular caching plugins
- mtnc_load_maintenance_page_for_this_user filter for modifying show sees the maintenance page
Support
If you have any problems, questions or recommendations about WP Maintenance please open a ticket in the official support forum. We answer all questions within hours!
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GDPR Compatibility
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Installation
Follow the usual routine;
- Open WordPress admin, go to Plugins, click Add New
- Enter “maintenance” in search and hit Enter
- Locate the Maintenance plugin by searching for our mascot, click “Install Now”
- Activate & open plugin’s settings page located in the main WP admin menu
Or if needed, upload manually;
- Download the plugin.
- Unzip it and upload to /wp-content/plugins/
- Open WordPress admin – Plugins and click “Activate” next to the plugin
- Activate & open plugin’s settings page located in the main WP admin menu
wp plugin install maintenance --activateFrequently Asked Questions
Try to check in different browser. If you a logged as WordPress user you see the website in normal mode.
The site will not be visible to search engines only if “503 Service Temporarily Unavailable” option is enabled.
You can use your “normal” WP administrator access or create a new user in WordPress dashboard – Users.
Changelog
v4.18
- 2025/07/31
- improved mobile resposiveness
v4.17
- 2025/01/22
- fixed Show some love option not saving
v4.16
- 2025/01/10
- updated Google Analytics code
- added skip-lazy class to background image to fix Autoptimize compatibility
v4.15
- 2024/10/22
- fixed bug with some options not being saved
v4.14
- 2024/10/17
- excluded posts/pages not saving bug fix
v4.13
- 2024/10/13
- minor security fixes
v4.12
- 2024/06/07
- minor bug fixes
v4.09
- 2024/06/03
- added Weglot support
v4.08
- 2023/08/31
- fixed reset password URL changed if Maintenance is off
v4.07
- 2022/05/06
- replaced Google Fonts with the privacy-oriented and GDPR compliant Bunny Fonts