Maintenance

Description

Maintenance plugin allows the WordPress site administrator to close the website for maintenance, enable “503 Service temporarily unavailable”, set a temporary page with authorization, which can be edited via the plugin settings. Easy customize the good look on all devices. Add your logo, background image, select the desired color, add text. Maintenance uses Bunny Fonts for EU GDPR compliance.

Need pre-made themes and over 3 million free images to build maintenance, coming soon & landing pages faster? Have a look at WP Maintenance PRO plugin.

If you’re having problems with SSL or HTTPS try our free WP Force SSL plugin. It’s a great plugin to enable SSL.

Features

retina ready HTML/CSS layout
Full-screen background (Backstretch)
Blur background effect
Upload your own logo
Configurable colors: fonts, icons, background
Customize title, headline, text
User login on frontend
Admin bar status
503 error on/off
Google analytics support
Exclude selected pages from Maintenance mode
Support for all popular caching plugins
mtnc_load_maintenance_page_for_this_user filter for modifying show sees the maintenance page

Support

If you have any problems, questions or recommendations about WP Maintenance please open a ticket in the official support forum. We answer all questions within hours!
Want to say “thank you”? Please leave a review.

GDPR Compatibility

We are not lawyers. Please do not take any of the following as legal advice.
If you don’t opt to use Bunny Fonts and don’t use Google Analytics then no resources are loaded or shared with 3rd parties. And nothing is tracked. Opting to use any of those services will result in data sharing/tracking as described in their terms of service.
If you opt to activate your PRO license in the plugin admin, some data will be shared with WebFactory Ltd; that’s clearly noted below the license activation form.

Installation

Follow the usual routine;

Open WordPress admin, go to Plugins, click Add New
Enter “maintenance” in search and hit Enter
Locate the Maintenance plugin by searching for our mascot, click “Install Now”
Activate & open plugin’s settings page located in the main WP admin menu

Or if needed, upload manually;

Download the plugin.
Unzip it and upload to /wp-content/plugins/
Open WordPress admin – Plugins and click “Activate” next to the plugin
Activate & open plugin’s settings page located in the main WP admin menu

Screenshots

Maintenance page with default design
Log in form is built into the maintenance page
Maintenance plugin options page

Faq

I have activated plugin and don’t see any changes, looks like plugin is not working.

Try to check in different browser. If you a logged as WordPress user you see the website in normal mode.

Will my site remain visible to search engines while maintenance mode is on?

The site will not be visible to search engines only if “503 Service Temporarily Unavailable” option is enabled.

Where can I find out the username and password to get to the site?

You can use your “normal” WP administrator access or create a new user in WordPress dashboard – Users.

I haven’t found an answer to my question, what should I do?

Please post the question on the support forum.

How can I report security bugs?

You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team help validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. Report a security vulnerability.

Reviews

Doesn't work

By ocultmag on December 12, 2025

Trash

Doesn't work

By ashworks1 on November 14, 2025

Says it's on, nothing happens, still goes to the homepage. I've cleared all caches it's not that. Just another janky piece of garbage plug-in like 95% of the others.

Excellent Plugin

By Useful Tech Stuff (usefultechstuff) on November 10, 2025

I am currenlty using the free version and it has been great. Easy to configure and activate/deactivate.

Verarsche - Nicht empfohlen

By silend on November 7, 2025

Wirbt mit "Kostenlos" und nach Installation nervt es mit "kauf mich"!

pas d'historique. Dommage

By boeglin on November 2, 2025

Assez simple d'utilisation mais bugue parfois. J'ai perdu toutes les pages en mutlingue pour renvoyer vers un autre site et pas moyen de trouver un historique pour retrouver l'ancienne version. Reste plus qu'à tout reprendre alors que sur WP toute page est rapidement retrouvable via réglages.

Par moment , l'espace de saisie se met en deux colonnes sans qu'il soit possible de revenir au mode une seule colonne de saisie, plus simple d'utilisation.

Sinon bien.

cant deactivate! Nightmare!

By mariannehalavage on September 15, 2025

I cannot deactivate this even when I delete the plugin including from file manager! Terrible. A nightmare!

Just what is needed, nothing extra

By genepine on July 17, 2025

Works fine, easy to use.

Blocks API

By bernardberry646 on July 16, 2025

Blocks API

Easy to use

By jewalker on June 27, 2025

This plugin is good and the support forum is quick to help

works but full of bloat

By jolanxbl on March 20, 2025

Doesn't use your site's fonts
Ignores the "Page Title" field but displays site name (I used css to disable this).
Crops the top and bottom of the background & darkens it by 40%.
Page theme is paywalled so I just made the entire page as a background image instead.

Despite all its advertised features, I only used background and background color, (and css to get around the paywall), because formatting the layout would have been more work that simply finishing the website. Frankly, I'm surprised that they didn't seal away the CSS like Elementor does.

Changelog

v4.20

2026/01/03
Fixed Bunny Fonts getting loaded even for system fonts

v4.19

2025/11/19
WordPress 6.9 compatibility

v4.18

2025/07/31
improved mobile resposiveness

v4.17

2025/01/22
fixed Show some love option not saving

v4.16

2025/01/10
updated Google Analytics code
added skip-lazy class to background image to fix Autoptimize compatibility

v4.15

2024/10/22
fixed bug with some options not being saved

v4.14

2024/10/17
excluded posts/pages not saving bug fix

v4.13

2024/10/13
minor security fixes

v4.12

2024/06/07
minor bug fixes

v4.09

2024/06/03
added Weglot support

v4.08

2023/08/31
fixed reset password URL changed if Maintenance is off

v4.07

2022/05/06
replaced Google Fonts with the privacy-oriented and GDPR compliant Bunny Fonts
minor fix for image field

v4.06

2022/05/06
introduction of the PRO version

v4.05

2022/01/04
bug fix for retina image
security fixes
ad for our free WP Force SSL plugin

v4.03

2021/07/18
security fixes
checked WP 5.8 compatibility

v4.02

2021/03/06
JS fixes on frontend
Contact Form 7 conflict fix

v4.01

2021/02/20
added support for Cache Enabler plugin
fixed a bug when background image isn’t defined
fixed issue on sites with large numbers of posts/pages/CPTs

v4.0

2021/01/30
added flyout menu
added mtnc_load_maintenance_page_for_this_user filter

v3.99

2021/01/13
minor fixes
removed promo for WP 301 Redirects

v3.97

2020/10/02
minor fixes
added promo for WP 301 Redirects

v3.96

2020/08/19
“headers already sent” bug fixed

v3.95

2020/08/14
bug fixes for WP v5.5

v3.90

2020/05/30
bug fixes
removed integration with Amelia Booking
added support for WP Rocket Cache plugin
fixed blur issue

v3.85

2019/11/28
bug fixes
added integration with Amelia Booking
added support for Hummingbird Cache plugin

v3.80

2019/09/25
numerous bug fixes
added preview button
400,000 installations; 3,790,000 downloads
for older changelog entries please refer to https://wpmaintenancemode.com/old-changelog.txt