Maintenance Redirect for WordPress Plugin Directory
Maintenance Redirect is a WordPress app, with a 4.9 average rating from 24 reviews, as of Jul 15, 2026.
Maintenance Redirect is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Peter Hardy-vanDoorn. With a rating of 4.9★ from 24 reviews.
AppRanks data: Maintenance Redirect ranks #0 in Coming soon on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 1% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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Maintenance Redirect is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. It is listed in the Maintenance category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 24 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.9★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Peter Hardy-vanDoorn — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (24) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Maintenance Redirect works
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This plugin is intended primarily for designers / developers that need to allow clients to preview sites before being available to the general public or to temporarily hide your WordPress site while undergoing major updates.
Any logged in user with WordPress administrator privileges will be allowed to view the site regardless of the settings in the plugin. The exact privilege can be set using a filter hook – see FAQs.
The behaviour of this plugin can be enabled or disabled at any time without losing any of the settings configured in its settings pane. However, deactivating the plugin is recommended versus having it activated while disabled.
When redirect is enabled it can send 2 different header types. “200 OK” is best used for when the site is under development and “503 Service Temporarily Unavailable” is best for when the site is temporarily taken offline for small amendments. If used for a long period of time, 503 can damage your Google ranking.
A list of IP addresses can be set up to completely bypass maintenance mode. This option is useful when needing to allow a client’s entire office to access the site while in maintenance mode without needing to maintain individual access keys. See FAQ below about working through a proxy.
Access keys work by creating a cookie on the user’s computer that will be checked for when maintenance mode is active. When a new key is created, a link to create the access key cookie will be emailed to the email address provided. Access can then be revoked either by disabling or deleting the key.
This plugin allows three methods of notifying users that a site is undergoing maintenance:
They can be presented with a simple message.
They can be presented with a custom HMTL page.
They can be redirected to a static HTML page. This static page will need to be uploaded to the server via FTP or some other method. This plugin DOES NOT include any way to upload the static page file. Any URL can be used here, and it doesn’t need to be on the same server (so you could redirect back to the client’s current site if you’re working on a dev site, for example). However, it should NOT be the URL of a WordPress page or post on the same site as this will result in an infinite redirect loop.
Category rankings
As of Jul 15, 2026- Coming soon#0of 29Top 1%
- Developer#0of 28Top 1%
- Maintenance#0of 46Top 1%
- Maintenance mode#0of 21Top 1%
- Redirect#16of 359Top 5%
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Keyword rankings
Maintenance Redirect ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
- 1.faqRank #91
Competitors & alternatives
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Maintenance Redirect ranks #0 of 46 apps in the Maintenance category, placing it in the top 1% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Maintenance Redirect?
Maintenance Redirect is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.9-star rating from 24 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Maintenance category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Peter Hardy-vanDoorn.
Who uses Maintenance Redirect?
Currently around 10,000 active stores have installed Maintenance Redirect. Its review base is still building, which usually maps to early-stage merchants and stores piloting a new workflow. It is part of the Maintenance category on WordPress.