A simple & lightweight, SEO-safe maintenance mode: 503 header + Retry-After, custom message, and admin bypass.
As of April 2026, Beckin Maintenance Mode is a WordPress 503 status plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 4.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.8+ and PHP 8.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Download volume is stable this week.
Beckin Maintenance Mode is a lightweight, secure plugin that lets administrators safely put their WordPress site into maintenance mode without hurting SEO. It sends the proper 503 Service Unavailable header with an optional Retry-After value, shows a maintenance page to visitors while still allowing admin logins, and prevents caching to ensure your site reopens cleanly.
While maintenance mode is active, logged-in admins (and any other allowed roles) can continue working in the dashboard and browse the frontend normally. To preview the maintenance / coming soon page as a visitor, you can do any of the following:
The first 3 options easily let y…
| WordPress | 6.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 8.0+ required |
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* Reset Style Settings button on the settings page to quickly restore the 5 styling fields (background color, message box color, message box opacity, header text color, and body text color) to their default values.
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