Simple maintenance mode for block themes. Shows a maintenance template to logged-out visitors.

Troy Chaplin

Planned Outage for Block Themes is a lightweight plugin that enables maintenance mode for WordPress block themes. When enabled, logged-out visitors see your custom maintenance template while logged-in users can browse the site normally.
Features:
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<li>Uses native block theme templates</li>
<li>Create maintenance pages in the Site Editor or as theme files</li>
<li>Logged-in users bypass maintenance mode</li>
<li>Configurable expected duration (Retry-After header)</li>
<li>Pre-launch mode for sites that aren’t live yet</li>
<li>Optional search engine bot access during maintenance</li>
<li>Bypass link to let non-logged-in users preview the site during maintenance</li>
<li>Admin bar indicator when maintenance mode is active</li>
<li>Duration warning after 3 days of maintenance (except in pre-launch mode)</li>
<li>Returns proper 503 status code for SEO</li>
<li>Cache plugin detection with admin warning and automatic cache flushing</li>
</ul>
Requirements:
<ul>
<li>WordPress 6.3 or higher</li>
<li>A block theme (like Twenty Twenty-Five)</li>
</ul>

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