Holiday Mode for WooCommerce
Holiday Mode for WooCommerce
Description
WooCommerce® Holiday Mode allows you to temporarily pause your online store during holidays, vacations, maintenance periods, or other planned breaks.
Define a start and end date for your closed period and automatically enable or disable holiday mode. During this time, you can display a prominently visible custom absence message to inform your customers about your temporary closure, return date, or other important information.
Features:
- Disable new orders by removing the add-to-cart button and displaying a custom message
- Disable the shopping cart (existing cart items will be removed when holiday mode is activated)
- Disable checkout during the holiday period
- Display a prominent custom absence message to inform customers about your temporary closure
- Optionally show the absence message on every page, not just the shop, product, cart and checkout pages
- Schedule holiday mode with a specific start and end date
- Automatically deactivate holiday mode when the vacation period ends
- Works with headless/decoupled storefronts and the Cart & Checkout blocks, via the WooCommerce Store API
- Admin notice reminding you that Holiday Mode is currently active, shown throughout wp-admin
WooCommerce® is a registered trademark of Automattic Inc.
Privacy Disclosure
This plugin does not collect, process, or store any personal data.
Installation
Follow these steps to install and configure the plugin:
Upload the plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress
Go to WooCommerce -> Settings -> Holiday Mode to configure your settings
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Faq
Yes. New orders are blocked the same way for headless storefronts as for a regular WordPress theme: products become non-purchasable and adding to cart or checking out is rejected while Holiday Mode is active. Your frontend can also ask the WooCommerce Store API directly whether Holiday Mode is active and what your absence message is, so it can be displayed even though it never renders any WordPress page. No setup is required for this – it is available as soon as the plugin is active, using your existing Holiday Mode settings.
Holiday Mode is included automatically in the Cart and Checkout endpoint responses (/wc/store/v1/cart and /wc/store/v1/checkout), under extensions.holiday-mode-woocommerce:
{
"active": true,
"purchasing_disabled": true,
"message": "We are on vacation, back on 1 September.",
"notice_type": "error"
}
Reviews
Still the best solution for holiday mode
By 
I’ve been using this plugin for quite some time, and it’s great to see that it’s still actively maintained. Thanks to the developer for continuing to improve it and keep it up to date.
It does exactly what I need: I can pause orders while I’m away without having to take my whole store offline. The setup is quick, the settings are easy to understand, and the option to display a custom message for customers is a nice touch.
After all this time, it’s still the solution I keep coming back to whenever I need a reliable holiday mode for WooCommerce.
Not compatible with new versions of wordpress
By 
I've tested with version 6.1.1. The banner does not appear, it only removes the add to basket and google and/or apple pay button. It would be useful if the settings were more fruitful and it would allow you to just show the message rather than stop orders all together.
Simple and useful
By 
Great! Simple and useful plugin.
Everything works flawlessly. This plugin enables everything that I could not achieve with code snippets. Amazingly good.
Danke
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Just the ticket.
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Changelog
2.9.0
- New: Added a “Support” and a star-rating link to the plugin’s row on the Plugins list page.
2.8.0
- New: “Show on all pages” setting displays the holiday notice on every page of your site, not just the shop, product, cart and checkout pages.
- Fixed: Corrected the plugin’s text domain to match its wordpress.org slug, so translations load correctly.
2.7.0
- New: Admin notice reminding you that Holiday Mode is currently active, shown throughout wp-admin so it’s harder to forget your shop is closed.
- Tested up to WordPress 7.2.
2.6.0
- New: Holiday Mode status and your absence message are now exposed through the WooCommerce Store API, so headless/decoupled storefronts and the Cart & Checkout blocks can display them.
2.5.0
- Lower the minimum required PHP version to 8.0 to support websites still running PHP 8.0–8.3.
- New: Added the option to select the color and icon for the absence message.
2.4.0
- New: Settings are now validated on save – Holiday Mode can no longer be activated with a missing/invalid date range or an empty vacation message.
- New: “Disable purchasing” setting lets you choose whether Holiday Mode blocks purchases (removes add-to-cart) or only shows the holiday notice. Enabled by default.
2.3.0
- Lower minimum required PHP version to 8.3 to allow installation on WordPress 6.7 and higher.
2.2.0
- Fixed: Holiday notice could appear below the archive title/result count instead of at the very top of the page on block themes (e.g. Twenty Twenty-Five) using WooCommerce’s default block-based Shop template.
2.1.0
- Fixed: Holiday mode now also removes the “Add to cart” / “Buy product” button for external/affiliate and grouped products.
2.0.0
- Enhanced: Holiday mode now explicitly removes the “Add to cart” button for variable products.
1.9.3
- Fixed: Plugin was incorrectly deactivated after upgrading from a previous active version.
1.9.2
- Security: Added improved escaping for holiday notice messages to strengthen protection against XSS vulnerabilities.
- Maintenance: Refactored internal code and cleaned up various areas of the plugin.
1.9.1
- Fixed: Holiday notice was not displayed on single product pages in some classic themes.
- Fixed: Holiday notice was missing on shop, archive, cart, and checkout pages in some block theme setups. The notice is now displayed correctly in these cases.
1.9.0
- Improved compatibility with caching plugins.
- Replaced the start and end date text fields with date pickers to improve usability.
1.8.3
Minor translations update
1.8.2
Update plugins meta data
1.8.1
Update README.txt
1.8.0
- Settings migrated from the Customizer to a dedicated page under WooCommerce -> Settings -> Holiday Mode
- Existing Customizer settings are migrated automatically on first admin page load
- WooCommerce HPOS (custom order tables) and Cart/Checkout Blocks compatibility declared
- Security and reliability hardening (escaping, sanitization, timezone handling)
1.7.1
- Compatibility for WordPress 5.9
1.7
- Add additional message on product page to increase theme compatibility (if woocommerce_before_main_content is not used by active theme)
- Settings are only visible if WooCommerce is activated within WordPress
- HTML is now possible for customer message
- Only provide vacation feature if WooCommerce is available
- Lowest PHP version is now 7.3, because lower versions reached EOL
1.6
- Fixed warning: Timezone is used correctly now
1.5
- Add further translation
1.4
- Fixed default translation language
1.3
- Add german language
1.2
- Fixed defined version, to allow updates
1.1
- Fixed settings: names are now more unique
1.0
- Initial version