Planned Outage for Block Themes
Simple maintenance mode for block themes. Shows a maintenance template to logged-out visitors.
5(1 reviews)
·0 active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, Planned Outage for Block Themes is a WordPress block-theme plugin with 0 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 288 times in total. Requires WordPress 6.3+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2026. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Create Block Theme.
5/51 reviews
0active installs
0%resolved
3 monthssince 2026
Overview
Planned Outage for Block Themes is a lightweight plugin that enables maintenance mode for WordPress block themes. When enabled, logged-out visitors see your custom maintenance template while logged-in users can browse the site normally.
Features:
- Uses native block theme templates
- Create maintenance pages in the Site Editor or as theme files
- Logged-in users bypass maintenance mode
- Configurable expected duration (Retry-After header)
- Pre-launch mode for sites that aren’t live yet
- Optional search engine bot access during maintenance
- Bypass link to let non-logged-in users preview the site during maintenance
- Admin bar indicator when maintenance mode is active
- Duration warning after 3 days of maintenance (except in pre-launch mode)
- Returns proper 503 status code for SEO
- Cache plugin detec…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.3+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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Changelog
Unreleased
- Added cache plugin detection with admin warning when maintenance mode is active
- Added automatic cache flushing when plugin settings are saved
- Added support for detecting Surge, WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Fastest Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, and WP Rocket
- Added fallback cache detection via advanced-cache.php dropin and wp-content/cache/ directory
- Added no-cache headers on all bypass responses to prevent reverse proxy cache poisoning
…and 2 more changes
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