Have you ever seen a notice on a website that says “our site is currently going through maintenance”?
Popular sites use maintenance mode page to improve user’s experience because no one likes to visit a non-working site.
If you are running a WordPress website, there will be some situations when you don’t want your site accessible to the public and that’s where the term, maintenance mode comes into action.
Like?
- You are performing site updates, making any design changes, updating a plugin or a theme.
- Migrating your site from one server to another.
If you are about to launch a new WordPress website you can also use maintenance mode as a coming soon page. Instead of disallowing others to access your site, you can put a beautiful maintenance mode landing page that does more than just looking beautiful.
Make sure to notify the users before keeping your site in maintenance mode so that they won’t face any issues while your site is undergoing some changes.
Note: It’s always advisable to have a backup of your website, before making any changes to it. If you don’t know how to create a backup of WordPress website, these tutorials will help you.
3 Best WordPress Maintenance Mode Plugins
There are many WordPress plugins available which you can use for maintenance mode. In this post, I have come up with the most recommended WordPress maintenance mode plugins that have a great number of active installs and highly recommended by users. Let’s take a look.
WP Maintenance Mode:
It’s a free plugin that allows you to add a maintenance page to your site to let visitors know your blog is undergoing some changes. The plugin also has the option to add a coming soon page for new sites.
You will find various options in the backend of the plugin like changing the status of the plugin, set user level restrictions, bypass search bots, creating your beautiful splash page for maintenance mode, adding countdown and newsletter signup. The plugin also works with WordPress multisite installs. It is completely responsive and works with any WordPress theme out there.
Here are some of the features of WP Maintenance Mode Plugin:
- Visual Composer – change text, colors, backgrounds, etc.
- Contact Form – receive emails from visitors
- Social Media Icons – Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, etc.
- Exclude URLs from maintenance
- Landing Page Templates
- Unlimited Colors
- Google Analytics
With more than 400,000+ active installs and great users review, WP Maintenance Mode is a highly popular plugin and worth checking out.
Coming Soon Page & Maintenance Mode:
This plugin is developed by SeedProd which lets you create simple coming soon or maintenance mode page. Once installed, you can design your coming soon or maintenance mode page from the backend itself.
Take a look at various features of the plugin:
- SEO Options – define SEO title and meta description
- BuddyPress Support
- Multisite Support
- Customize Look & Feel
- Live Preview Option
- Compatible With Any WordPress theme
- 100% Responsive
With over 300,000+ active installs, this plugin is worth giving a try.
The plugin also has its PRO version available with some advanced features like:
- Real Time Page Customizer
- Support for Shortcodes, Google Fonts, Background Slideshow and Videos
- Social Media Integrations
- 1000’s of Free Stock Images
- Collect Emails with MailChimp, Aweber, GetResponse, Constant Contact and Campaign Monitor Integration.
- Gravity Forms Integration
And more.
Under Construction / Maintenance Mode from Acurax:
A simple and easy to use plugin to configure your coming soon landing page or maintenance mode page. The plugin is packed with five pre-built maintenance mode and four coming soon templates with social media icons, countdown timer, etc.
Apart from this, you can block the IPs of the users, edit user roles, whom you don’t want to show maintenance page.
Some of the features of the plugin are:
- Auto Launch Option
- SEO Options
- Advanced Access/Restriction Settings
- Favicon
- Newsletter Subscription
- Google Analytics
- Custom CSS
The plugin is completely free to use and has over 60,000+ active installs.
The list could be endless as WordPress is a huge repository of plugins. I have covered the ones that are popular and most recommended by users.
If you find this post helpful, do share it with your friends and colleagues. Do let me know which plugin you use while putting your site in maintenance mode.
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