Maintenance Switch
Customize easily and switch in one-click to (native) maintenance mode from your backend or frontend.
5(12 reviews)
·600 active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, Maintenance Switch is a WordPress switch plugin with 600 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 40K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP 8.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Top alternative: Manage Notification E-mails.
5/512 reviews
600active installs
40K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
One-click maintenance mode
This plugin adds a button to the admin bar for toggling the builtin maintenance mode.
Core maintenance mode
A .maintenance file is generated and copied to the WordPress installation folder when turning on the maintenance mode.
A maintenance.php file is generated and added to the wp-content folder for custom HTML code.
Your custom maintenance page will also be active during the core, plugins and themes updates.
Special Features
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set which roles can switch the maintenance mode
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set which roles can bypass the maintenance mode on the frontend
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set the entire HTML code used for the maintenance page
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preview the maintenance page before saving
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enable the theme file support, so you can create in each your themes a maintenance.php file to customize the maintenance…
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Ratings & Reviews
512 reviews
5 ★
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 8.3+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.7.1
- WordPress 6.9 compatibility confirmed
- Improved WordPress Coding Standards compliance
- Global variables now properly prefixed with maintenance_switch_
- Functions renamed with correct prefix for better naming conventions
- Added backward compatibility wrappers for smooth updates
…and 1 more changes
Contributors
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