Maintenance Mode
This plugin is intended primarily for developers that need to allow clients to preview sites before being available to the general public or to tempor …
4.6(14 reviews)
·8.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Maintenance Mode is a WordPress redirect plugin with 8.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 14 reviews. It has been downloaded 130K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.1+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 15% this week. Top alternative: Redirection.
4.6/514 reviews
8.0K+active installs
130K+total downloads
6 yearssince 2020
Overview
This plugin lets you specify a maintenance mode message or HTML page for your site and configure settings to allow specific users to bypass the maintenance mode functionality in order to preview the site prior to public launch.
It also disables the WordPress REST API while maintenance mode is active, ensuring that site data remains inaccessible during maintenance.
Any logged in user with WordPress administrator privileges will be allowed to view the site regardless of the settings in the plugin. The exact privilege can be set using a filter hook – see FAQs.
The behaviour of this can be enabled or disabled at any time without losing any of settings configured in its settings pane. However, deactivating the plugin is recommended versus having it activated while disabled.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Does what it purports to do with zero faff
by richardlampitt·8 months ago
An excellent option for a maintenance page or a development shield. Provides a suitable selection of comprehensive options and does not bombard the site owner / admin with obnoxious upgrade requests nor animated distractions.
- This topic was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by richardlampitt. Reason: Remove empty paragraph
One of the best free maintenance page plugins
by sharukhi·11 months ago
One of the best free maintenance page plugins
Clean, fast, effective
by tombekistan·1 year ago
Exactly what I need.
Broke my site
by Alexander·1 year ago
This plugin broke my whole site. I couldn’t even login to the admin section. Captcha dissapeared. I had to reinstall it again. DO NOT INSTALL IT!!!!!
Great plugin, fast and works fine
by eatmyhitzz·1 year ago
Straight to the point plugin, works great and the IP whitelist is a great feature.
Tried a lot of them, but this one hit the spot.
Download Trends
Today: 38Yesterday: 23This week: 184Period total: 27K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.1+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.1
67.9%
v3.0
12.8%
Other
11.7%
v2.4
7.7%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.1.3
- Bug fix
Contributors
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