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>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w8S94TE6FV4?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>


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.

YITHEMES

<p>If you’re working on your website and would like to make it known to your visitors, install the plugin YITH Maintenance Mode to quickly set a lovely customizable page to let your visitors know the site is closed for maintenance.</p>
<p><strong>A working demo is available <a href="http://plugins.yithemes.com/yith-maintenance-mode/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Full documentation is available <a href="http://yithemes.com/docs-plugins/yith_maintenance_mode/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>
<p>This plugin is 100% compatible with <a href="http://wpml.org/?aid=24889&affiliate_key=Qn1wDeBNTcZV" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a></p>
<h4>Installation</h4>
<p>Once you have installed the plugin, you just need to activate the plugin in order to enable it.</p>
<h4>Configuration</h4>
<p>YITH Maintenance Mode will add a new page under Appearance -> Maintenance Mode, where you can configure the plugin and customize the frontend page.</p>
<h4>GDPR Disclaimer</h4>
<p>As you can see in <a href="https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_google_fonts_api_mean_for_the_privacy_of_my_users" rel="nofollow ugc">Google FAQ</a>:</p>
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<p>The Google Fonts API is designed to limit the collection, storage, and use of end-user data to what is needed to serve fonts efficiently. […] Google Fonts logs records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is kept secure. […] We use data from Google’s web crawler to detect which websites use Google fonts.</p>
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<p>In other words, when someone visits your website, Google will be able to access the IP address they used to access it. As a result of using Google Fonts, you implicitly accept their terms and conditions, and you must inform people visiting your site of this in accordance with the current GDPR law in Europe.</p>
<h4>Developer</h4>
<p>Are you a developer? Want to customize the templates or the style of the plugin? Read on the <a href="http://yithemes.com/docs-plugins/yith_maintenance_mode/" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a> and discover how to do that.</p>
<h3>Suggestions</h3>
<p>If you have suggestions about how to improve YITH Maintenance Mode, you can <a href="mailto:plugins@yithemes.com" title="Your Inspiration Themes" rel="nofollow ugc">write us</a> so we can bundle them into YITH Maintenance Mode.</p>
<h3>Translators</h3>
<h4>Available Languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>English (Default)</li>
<li>Dutch</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
</ul>
<p>If you have created your own language pack, or have an update for an existing one, you can send <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress" title="Translating WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">gettext PO and MO file</a><br />
<a href="http://yithemes.com/contact/" title="Your Inspiration Themes" rel="nofollow ugc">use</a> so we can bundle it into YITH Maintenance Mode Languages.</p>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p>Full documentation is available <a href="http://yithemes.com/docs-plugins/yith_maintenance_mode/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>


YITH Maintenance Mode

This plugin locked me completely out of my wordpress site. Neither /wp-admin nor /admin let me log in again. All I got was "Page not found". Removed the plugin via FTP and I'm back in business.

Unacceptable!

Locked me completely out!

YITH Maintenance Mode gives you the ability to have a simple Maintenance Mode page while your website is under construction or closed for maintenance.

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