Harish Chouhan

Themeist Co

<p><strong>Build Mode</strong> lets you put your WordPress site into <strong>maintenance mode</strong> or display a <strong>coming‑soon page</strong> / <strong>under‑construction page</strong> with one click. Instead of a generic message, you can select and display any page you’ve built — with the Block Editor, Classic Editor, or a page builder. Visitors will see your chosen <strong>maintenance or coming‑soon page</strong>, styled using your theme’s CSS and JS, while logged‑in administrators continue working behind the scenes.</p>
<p>When Build Mode is active, only the content area of your chosen maintenance page is displayed. The header, footer and navigation are automatically removed.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Enable or disable Build Mode from the <strong>Admin Bar</strong></li>
<li>Choose any page as your custom <strong>maintenance</strong>, <strong>coming‑soon</strong> or <strong>under‑construction</strong> screen</li>
<li><strong>Five-Second Setup:</strong> Click “Create Maintenance Page” to automatically generate a styled “Under Construction” page.</li>
<li>Logged‑in admins bypass maintenance mode automatically</li>
<li>Choose between <strong>503 Service Unavailable</strong> (maintenance windows) or <strong>200 OK</strong> (coming‑soon / teaser pages) — configurable via a simple setting</li>
<li>Lightweight and secure, built with WordPress best practices</li>
<li>Compatible with classic and block themes</li>
<li>Translation‑ready</li>
</ul>
<h3>Use cases</h3>
<ul>
<li>Show a custom <strong>under‑maintenance</strong> or <strong>coming‑soon</strong> screen while you redesign or update your site</li>
<li>Let search engines know your downtime is temporary with proper HTTP headers</li>
<li>Keep working on your site privately without showing a broken layout to visitors</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://themeist.com/plugins/build-mode/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Page on Themeist</a><br />
<a href="https://github.com/webtions/build-mode" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Repo</a></p>
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Build Mode – Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Page


Neat little helper for creating a cool maintenance page. 


Helpful tool!


It's very easy. you can put your website in maintenance mode in one click. 


Easy maintenance plugin


Does what it's supposed to do - without any unnecessary extras. Easy to use with well-designed features.


Easy to use, no unnecessary stuff

Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Made Easy – Display any page as your maintenance or coming-soon screen, no coding required.

WebFactory

<p><a href="https://wpmaintenancemode.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Maintenance</a> 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. Easy customize the good look on all devices. Add your logo, background image, select the desired color, add text. Maintenance uses Bunny Fonts for EU GDPR compliance.</p>
<p>Need <strong>pre-made themes</strong> and over 3 million free images to build maintenance, coming soon & landing pages faster? Have a look at <a href="https://wpmaintenancemode.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Maintenance PRO</a> plugin.</p>
<p>Having problems with spam or bots? Try our free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-google-recaptcha/" rel="ugc">Advanced Google ReCaptcha</a> plugin. It’s used on over 200,000 sites and provides great protection!</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>over <a href="https://wpmaintenancemode.com/#themes" rel="nofollow ugc">200 themes in the PRO version</a></li>
<li>retina ready HTML/CSS layout</li>
<li>Full-screen background (<a href="https://github.com/srobbin/jquery-backstretch" rel="nofollow ugc">Backstretch</a>)</li>
<li>Blur background effect</li>
<li>Upload your own logo</li>
<li>Configurable colors: fonts, icons, background</li>
<li>Customize title, headline, text</li>
<li>User login on frontend</li>
<li>Admin bar status</li>
<li>503 error on/off</li>
<li>Google analytics support</li>
<li>Exclude selected pages from Maintenance mode</li>
<li>Support for all popular caching plugins</li>
<li>mtnc_load_maintenance_page_for_this_user filter for modifying show sees the maintenance page</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>If you have any problems, questions or recommendations about WP Maintenance please open a ticket in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/maintenance/" rel="ugc">official support forum</a>. We answer all questions within hours!<br />
Want to say “thank you”? Please leave a <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/maintenance?filter=5" rel="ugc">review</a>.</p>
<h3>GDPR Compatibility</h3>
<p>We are not lawyers. Please do not take any of the following as legal advice.<br />
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.<br />
If you opt to activate your PRO license in the plugin admin, some data will be shared with WebFactory Ltd; that’s clearly noted below the license activation form.</p>


Maintenance


It was great in the past. But latest versions, besides being basically a big ad, it doesn't even work. There's the toggle switch and it does nothing!


Don't bother download it

Great looking maintenance, coming soon & under construction pages. Put your site under maintenance in minutes.

Build Mode – Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Page vs Maintenance