Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode Page vs Maintenance Redirect

Activate the Coming soon (Maintenance) Mode to redirect visitors to a specific page while you work on your site. This plugin allows you to create a landing page that informs your visitors that your site is under construction, whether you call it Coming Soon, Under Construction, or Maintenance Mode. Easily enable or disable Coming Soon (Maintenance) Mode with a click. Activating the Coming Soon (Maintenance) Mode will redirect unauthorized visitors to a personalized page. You can craft your page using Gutenberg Blocks/Patterns or your favourite page builder with complete flexibility and all the features available for creating any WordPress page. We recommend including a message, countdown timer, subscription form, contact form, and social media icons to create a better landing page for your under-construction page. The plugin is handy when you are developing a new blog or site, or working on updates and maintenance for an existing site. Redirecting visitors to a specially designed page will ensure a smooth user experience. You can explain the changes and let visitors know when they can expect the site to be fully operational again. Inbuilt Patterns for Quick Setup The ‘Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode Page’ plugin comes with a collection of inbuilt Gutenberg Block Patterns that users can easily apply for a quick setup. Locating and Inserting Patterns Access the Block Editor: Open the page or post where you want to use a pattern. Click the “Add Block” button (+) or the “+” sign in the top left corner of the block editor. Switch to the Patterns Tab: In the block inserter window, click the “Patterns” tab. This displays all available patterns. Coming Soon and Maintenance: Within the Patterns tab, find the category labelled “Coming Soon and Maintenance.” This categorization ensures a quick and efficient search for the patterns tailored to your needs. Insert a Pattern: Click on one of the patterns to insert it directly into your edit content area. Modify as Needed: The inserted pattern serves as a starter template. Customize it effortlessly to align with your specific requirements. Modify text, colours, and any other elements to ensure your Coming Soon or Maintenance Mode page reflects your unique style. Features Enable or disable Coming Soon (Maintenance) Mode with a simple click. Redirect unauthorized visitors to a specific page of your choice. Design your page using Gutenberg Blocks/Patterns or your preferred page builder. Utilize the full flexibility and features of WordPress page creation for your Maintenance Page. Allow search bots during maintenance mode. Remove all plugin settings when deactivating.

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.