Display a simple maintenance mode page while your site is undergoing scheduled maintenance
As of April 2026, Simple Maintenance is a WordPress coming soon plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 65K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 10% this week. Top alternative: Maintenance.
Simple Maintenance plugin can be easily installed to show a maintenance mode page. It allows you to maintain your site on the back end by displaying a temporary maintenance page on the front end.
The plugin does not require any additional configuration or setup. All you need to do is activate it and maintenance mode will be automatically enabled. It is very lightweight yet powerful. It uses the HTML5 layout which makes the maintenance mode page viewable from a mobile device.
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Just what I have been looking for. Simple, does the job.
Great work, perfect for devs
I spent an hour looking for an easy way to put a new project in maintenance mode. Seems like WordPress should have that built in. Simple Maintenance was the answer for what I was looking for. Took two minutes to install and active. Easy!
A simple maintenance page plugin with no b/s or pestering to upgrade to pro [why would you need to do that]. Thanks
You don’t need any fancy-heavy maintenance page plugin when you can use this simple and ultra light plugin.
It is also easy to customize if you want, but the default is more than enough.
Great and free plugin. No ads.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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