Maintenance
Maintenance
Description
WP 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.
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Features
- over 200 themes in the PRO version
- 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
Try to check in different browser. If you a logged as WordPress user you see the website in normal mode.
The site will not be visible to search engines only if “503 Service Temporarily Unavailable” option is enabled.
You can use your “normal” WP administrator access or create a new user in WordPress dashboard – Users.
No, it will be display error on current maintenance page, without redirect to wp-login page.
Please post the question on the support forum.
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
The free plugin is not working properly.
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<font dir="auto" style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font dir="auto" style="vertical-align: inherit;">I activated the plugin and it doesn't really work, at least in the free version.</font></font>
Great plugin with lots of potential
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I really love this plugin! It’s very useful, and I only wish it supported JavaScript as well — that way I could make full use of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create an even more dynamic maintenance page for customers.
Easy Maintenance Mode
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Installed it to show the maintenance page during updates. Setup was very easy, and everything worked right away. Basic but useful plugin. Does the job without any hassle.
spam !!
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a peine installé que je suis spam avec mon site en mode maintenance !!!!
Doesn't work.
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Plugin is enabled but I can still access my site. Not functional
Nice plugin, but...
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Turning on maintenance mode by default upon plugin activation is an incredibly poor design decision. No one ever installs a Maintenance plugin during maintenance, but well before...
So if you download this plugin, be aware, it will block access to your site right away until you manually turn off maintenance mode in the plugin settings.
Great plugin. Easy to use
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I have used this plugin on every site I have built for years. Its great. Simple to set up and does the job.
Doesn't work
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Trash
Doesn't work
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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
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I am currenlty using the free version and it has been great. Easy to configure and activate/deactivate.
Changelog
v4.21
- 2026/04/02
- Minor fixes
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