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.

Poly Plugins

<p>Easily manage your site’s maintenance mode with Maintenance Mode Made Easy, a lightweight and user-friendly WordPress plugin. Designed to give you full control while keeping things simple, this plugin ensures your site’s downtime is professional and hassle-free.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Enable or disable maintenance mode effortlessly from the WordPress admin bar, no complicated settings required.</li>
<li>Automatically sends a 503 HTTP status header to inform search engines your site is temporarily unavailable, preserving your SEO rankings.</li>
<li>Personalize the heading, message, color, background color, background color opacity (can also overlay background images), and background image displayed on the maintenance page to match your site’s tone and brand.</li>
<li>Add contact icons for users to reach you during maintenance.</li>
<li>Add social icons with links to your social media pages.</li>
<li>Select additional roles that can bypass maintenance mode.</li>
<li>Track maintenance page visits seamlessly with built-in Google Analytics & Matomo integration, which also checks for the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/complianz-gdpr/" rel="ugc">Complianz</a> “cmplz_statistics” cookie before tracking.</li>
<li>Blocks new WooCommerce orders during maintenance mode to prevent additional orders from being processed via AJAX.</li>
<li>Build your own from the ground up maintenance page by creating a new maintenance.php in your active theme folder and selecting the “Custom” template in the settings.</li>
<li>If Privacy Policy is defined in /wp-admin/options-privacy.php it will allow users to access this page when the site is in maintenance mode.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
<ul>
<li>Start / End Date & Time</li>
<li>Add EDD check</li>
<li>Add preview button in backend</li>
<li>Pull Yoast title and desc and append Under Maintenance to it</li>
<li>Design and build additional templates</li>
<li>Add a builder</li>
<li>Redesign of settings page</li>
</ul>
<h3>GDPR</h3>
<p>We are not lawyers and always recommend doing your own compliance research into third party plugins, libraries, ect, as we’ve seen other maintenance plugins not be in compliance with these regulations.</p>
<p>This plugin uses Bootstrap, Bootstrap Icons, and Select2 3rd party libraries. These libraries are loaded locally to be compliant with data protection regulations.</p>
<p>This plugin has the capability to use Google Analytics and Matomo. If you enable this option, please make sure you are in compliance with data processing regulations. We currently have checks for the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/complianz-gdpr/" rel="ugc">Complianz</a> “cmplz_statistics” cookie before tracking, but if you do not use Complianz you will need to build your own integration out. You can also put in a <a href="https://www.polyplugins.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">feature request</a> for the compliance plugin you use, and we’ll look into integrating it.</p>
<p>This plugin collects and stores certain data on your server to ensure proper functionality. This includes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Storing plugin settings</li>
<li>Remembering which notices have been dismissed</li>
</ul>
<h3>Assets</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/under-construction-signage-on-laptop-keyboard-211122/" rel="nofollow ugc">Under Construction Keyboard</a></p>


Maintenance Mode Made Easy

A lightweight plugin that makes managing site downtime easy. Send 503 headers, track with Google Analytics, prevent WooCommerce orders, and more.

Build Mode – Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Page vs Maintenance Mode Made Easy