Title: Maintenance
Author: WebFactory
Published: <strong>31 Masg 2012</strong>
Last modified: 19 Sgiugn 2026

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# Maintenance

 By [WebFactory](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webfactory/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/maintenance.4.31.zip)

 * [Details](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/maintenance/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/maintenance/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/maintenance/#installation)
 * [Development](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/maintenance/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/maintenance/)

## Description

[WP Maintenance](https://wpmaintenancemode.com/) 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. Add your logo, background image, select the desired color and text–
all with easy maintenance builder. Maintenance uses Bunny Fonts for EU GDPR compliance.

Need **pre-made themes** and over 8 million free images to build maintenance, coming
soon & landing pages faster? Have a look at [WP Maintenance PRO](https://wpmaintenancemode.com/)
plugin.

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### Features

 * over [200 themes in the PRO version](https://wpmaintenancemode.com/#themes)
 * Full-screen background ([Backstretch](https://github.com/srobbin/jquery-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](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/maintenance/).
We answer all questions within hours!
 Want to say “thank you”? Please leave a [review](https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/maintenance?filter=5).

### 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.

Maintenance uses these 3rd party libs:

 * Super simple WYSIWYG editor v0.9.0, MIT
 * SweetAlert 2, github.com/Sweetalert2/Sweetalert2, MIT
 * jscolor Color Picker, GNU GPL v3
 * Ace Editor (Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor), BSD
 * Web Font Loader, Apache 2 License

## Screenshots

[⌊Maintenance page with default design and layout⌉⌊Maintenance page with default
design and layout⌉[

Maintenance page with default design and layout

[⌊Log in form is built into the maintenance page⌉⌊Log in form is built into the 
maintenance page⌉[

Log in form is built into the maintenance page

[[

## Installation

Follow the usual routine;

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

Or if needed, upload manually;

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

## 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](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/maintenance).

### 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.](https://patchstack.com/database/vdp/maintenance)

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/435c325ab180b0519fbc655e9ae7bafe604c2739124f4c809c0bd99893944035?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Totally Messed Up](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/totally-messed-up-4/)󠁿

 [andy_woz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andy_woz/) 06 Luj 2026

Why? Why would you take something that worked so well and turn it into something
so bad? Used to be a simple one page config now its all full of bloat, upsells and
some weird ass block builder UI that isn’t even Gutenberg. SMH

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4d8ca4a282c4eec0b54bb4fa6c52af7c9622e00a24a446defc8b6db3a88dcdbd?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[I USED to use this plugin exclusively…](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-used-to-use-this-plugin-exclusively/)󠁿

 [digitalkristen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/digitalkristen/) 06 Luj 2026 1 
reply

I used to use this plugin exclusively as a maintenance page/temporarily taking a
website offline. Now, the customization options are all but gone. I need to customize
the text on the maintenance page on each site that I manage, now I have to replace
this plugin on over 20 websites. Like other reviewers have said, this plugin USED
to be awesome but if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Now the backend is just full 
of upsells and nothing useful. Two weeks ago, this would have been a 5-star review.
They pushed out an “update” that downgraded the plugin and broke most of the most
useful features. Sad. And now we get to find a different plugin to use on all of
my client websites, install and configure. At least a few days of work that didn’t
need to happen if they had left a great plugin to remain great but they got too 
greedy and broke their plugin.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/054d908858228c26b23838f8ad8372fec6794bb2c57a42b230aa5b12d7714ed9?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[New version is not usable any more](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-version-is-not-usable-any-more/)󠁿

 [Netzialist](https://profiles.wordpress.org/netzialist/) 03 Luj 2026

Three days ago there was a new version of the plugin. Completely different backend,
basic settings disappeared completely. I can’t access the text on my maintenance
page any more. The backend is filled up with upselling stuff. Very annoying. Has
to go.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/51d17daa7aae935afc732fff09d0e32250c73985366e8ad19ca355779ba67d93?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[New version (4.3*) does not respect your time.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-version-4-3-does-not-respect-your-time/)󠁿

 [hetkanbeteronline](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hetkanbeteronline/) 03 Luj 2026
1 reply

This plugin had one simple job to do for our clients show a custom text that can
be switched on and off without us having to mess with htaccess and custom pages.
Nothing fancy no need for custom backgrounds just a simple text page.Low and behold
now we have to waste minutes setting everything up making sure it does not break
with caching optimization. And basically costing us money as in time to use it because
how unstable it behaves.Well we have found the perfect solution for this problem.
We will begin removing this plugin from hundreds of our client sites and we will
not be returning it ever again due to poor management decisions on this company 
part.When a company approves this kind of mess for production towards there users
they clearly lack professional QA, QC management.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/03920229467a95995b819bb230345d4df6178342ad0a7692b6074a5e9a3f6516?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Why Oh Why Mess With A Great Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-oh-why-mess-with-a-great-plugin/)󠁿

 [evildoer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/evildoer/) 25 Sgiugn 2026

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. This is one of the few plugins that I have been
using with zero problems – until now. Lousy UI, confusing and my content is all 
mashed up. So disappointed.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/27980f2fdcdd1c4fd9b2dcb367ac1ae9af07f8c52f8139d9a48d68e028b22800?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Has this update even been tested in any way?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/has-this-update-even-been-tested-in-any-way/)󠁿

 [printessenz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/printessenz/) 24 Sgiugn 2026

Used to be my go to plugin but the latest update is ridiculously bad. Not only are
the UI changes horrible (back- and frontend!) but it also simply doesn’t work anymore.
Content changes are not saved, previously working content is now messed up, the 
full view close button is in the middle of the page, the HTML view adds styling 
elements on its own, while simultaneously somehow minifying everything as soon as
you switch back to text mode and is then weirdly formated, making the normal text
mode basically unusable as well…

 [ Read all 858 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/maintenance/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Maintenance” is open source software. The following people have contributed to 
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ WebFactory ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webfactory/)

“Maintenance” has been translated into 30 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/maintenance/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Maintenance” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/maintenance)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/maintenance/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/maintenance/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/maintenance/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/maintenance/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### v4.30

 * 2026/06/18
 * complete rewrite, new options, new GUI
 * drag&drop maintenance page builder

#### 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

## Meta

 *  Version **4.31**
 *  Last updated **7 days ago**
 *  Active installations **1+ million**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.4 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.0**
 *  PHP version ** 5.2 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [Albanian](https://sq.wordpress.org/plugins/maintenance/), [Catalan](https://ca.wordpress.org/plugins/maintenance/),
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 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/maintenance)
 * Tags
 * [coming soon](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/coming-soon/)[coming soon page](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/coming-soon-page/)
   [maintenance](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/maintenance/)[maintenance mode](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/maintenance-mode/)
   [maintenance page](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/maintenance-page/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/maintenance/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.4 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  696 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/maintenance/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  36 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/maintenance/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  17 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/maintenance/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  25 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/maintenance/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  84 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/maintenance/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/maintenance/reviews/#new-post)

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## Contributors

 *   [ WebFactory ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webfactory/)

## Support

Issues resolved in last two months:

     8 out of 8

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/maintenance/)