Harish Chouhan

Themeist Co

Build Mode lets you put your WordPress site into maintenance mode or display a coming‑soon page / under‑construction page 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 maintenance or coming‑soon page, styled using your theme’s CSS and JS, while logged‑in administrators continue working behind the scenes.
When Build Mode is active, only the content area of your chosen maintenance page is displayed. The header, footer and navigation are automatically removed.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Enable or disable Build Mode from the Admin Bar</li>
<li>Choose any page as your custom maintenance, coming‑soon or under‑construction screen</li>
<li>Five-Second Setup: 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 503 Service Unavailable (maintenance windows) or 200 OK (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 under‑maintenance or coming‑soon 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>
<a href="https://themeist.com/plugins/build-mode/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Page on Themeist</a> 
<a href="https://github.com/webtions/build-mode" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Repo</a>
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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.

Fugu Design

One-click maintenance mode
This plugin adds a button to the admin bar for toggling the builtin maintenance mode.
Core maintenance mode
A .maintenance file is generated and copied to the WordPress installation folder when turning on the maintenance mode. 
A maintenance.php file is generated and added to the wp-content folder for custom HTML code.
Your custom maintenance page will also be active during the core, plugins and themes updates.
<h4>Special Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>
set which roles can switch the maintenance mode
</li>
<li>
set which roles can bypass the maintenance mode on the frontend
</li>
<li>
set the entire HTML code used for the maintenance page
</li>
<li>
preview the maintenance page before saving
</li>
<li>
enable the theme file support, so you can create in each your themes a maintenance.php file to customize the maintenance page
</li>
<li>
restore all default settings
</li>
<li>
restore default HTML code
</li>
<li>
create/delete the maintenance file in the active WP theme
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<ul>
<li>English – default, always included</li>
<li>French</li>
</ul>

Maintenance Switch

Customize easily and switch in one-click to (native) maintenance mode from your backend or frontend.

Build Mode – Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Page vs Maintenance Switch