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BEAPI – Maintenance Mode

Puts your WordPress site into maintenance mode by sending a 'Error 503: Access Denied/Forbidden' status to all unauthenticated clients.

By BE API·503·Free
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·100 active installs·Updated 7 years ago
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As of April 2026, BEAPI is a WordPress 503 plugin with 100 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 4.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP-Shabbat.

0/5Rating
100active installs
4.7K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018

Overview

This simple and lightweight WordPress maintenance plugin puts the site into maintenance mode. The major advantage, compared to existing plugins, is that there are no options, it is ready to use!

It was think, while in maintenance mode, to :
– Not impact your SEO by sending a ‘503 Service Unavailable’ status to all unauthenticated clients. This means that it will inhibits search engines from both losing your site’s existing content and indexing your maintenance page as well, so your site will not lose its rankings while it is out of service. Content will even be hidden from consumers of the site’s RSS or Atom feeds.
– Make continually work the login/loggout process.
– It handle the activate process in multisite, which a lot of existing plugins don&…

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Ratings & Reviews

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Compatibility

WordPress4.7+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29
PHP5.6+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.0.5 – 02 Apr 2019

  • Add #8 : filter is maintenance mode helper for handle custom behaviour.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Nicolas JuenNicolas JuenBE APIBE APIrlefortrlefortMaxime CuleaMaxime Culea
Plugin Info
Version
1.0.5
Last Updated
Apr 2, 2019
WP Requires
4.7+
Tested Up To
4.9.29
PHP Requires
5.6+
Active Installs
100
Downloads
4.7K+
Added
Nov 5, 2018
Business
Free

Tags

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Developer

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