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.

Miguel Muller

<p>This is a plugin for use mostly by theme developers. It’s possible that a page called 503.php in theme root folder, is used to prevent website content display. Ideal to report a scheduled maintenance or soon page.</p>
<p>No customization in page is made by the plugin, leaving the developer to prepare a maintenance page within the site layout specifications.</p>
<h4>Descrição em Português:</h4>
<p>Esse plugin é mas mais aconselhado para uso por desenvolvedores de tema. Com ele é possível chamar uma página 503.php, na pasta raíz do tema, que será usada para evitar que o conteúdo do site seja visualizado. Ideal para reportar uma manutenção programada ou uma página de em breve.</p>
<p>Nenhuma personalização na página é feita pelo plugin, deixando a cargo do desenvolvedor preparar uma página de manutenção dentro das especificações de layout site.</p>
<h3>Instalation/Instalação:</h3>
<p>Check our installation and configuration guide in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-maintenance-developer/installation/" rel="ugc">Installation tab</a>.</p>
<h3>Question/Dúvidas:</h3>
<p>You can answer your questions using:</p>
<ul>
<li>Our <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugins/wp-maintenance-developer/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ session</a>.</li>
<li>Using our <a href="https://github.com/miguelsmuller/wp-maintenance-developer" rel="nofollow ugc">forum on Github</a>.</li>
<li>Creating a topic in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-maintenance-developer/" rel="ugc">help forum WordPress</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Translate/Tradução</h3>
<p>You can contribute to the translate with <a href="https://www.transifex.com/devim/wordpress-maintenance-developer" rel="nofollow ugc">transifex projetct</a>.</p>
<h3>Contributing/Contribuindo</h3>
<p>You can contribute source code in our page on <a href="https://github.com/miguelsmuller/wp-maintenance-developer" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>
<h3>Thanks to/Agradecimento</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.devim.com.br" rel="nofollow ugc">Devim Agência Web</a>: Permitiu a codificação no plugin durante o expediente 😀</p>


WordPress Maintenance Developer

Add a page that prevents your site's content view. Ideal to report a scheduled maintenance or coming soon page.

Build Mode – Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Page vs WordPress Maintenance Developer