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DevLab Maintenance Mode lets you display a beautiful “Under Maintenance” or “Coming Soon” page to your visitors while you work on your site behind the scenes. No coding required.
Whether you’re launching a new site, performing updates, or making major changes, this plugin ensures your visitors see a professional holding page instead of broken layouts or error messages.
<h3>Why Choose DevLab Maintenance Mode?</h3>
Zero Lock-Out Risk – Maintenance mode is OFF by default. You control when it activates. Logged-in administrators always have access.
10 Stunning Templates – Not just one boring page. Choose from 10 professionally designed templates that match any brand or style.
Multiple Bypass Options – Grant access via user roles, IP addresses, or shareable secret links. Perfect for clients, team members, or testers.
SEO Done Right – Returns proper 503 status codes with Retry-After headers. Search engines understand your site is temporarily unavailable, not gone forever.
<h3>Features</h3>
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<li>One-Click Activation – Enable or disable maintenance mode instantly</li>
<li>10 Beautiful Templates – From minimal to animated, corporate to playful</li>
<li>Live Countdown Timer – Show visitors when you’ll be back (Countdown template)</li>
<li>Custom Messages – Write your own text with full HTML support</li>
<li>Role-Based Bypass – Let editors, authors, or any role access the site</li>
<li>IP Whitelist – Always allow specific IP addresses through</li>
<li>Secret Access Links – Share <code>yoursite.com?mmbd_bypass=secret</code> for temporary access</li>
<li>Cookie-Based Sessions – Bypass visitors stay logged in for your configured duration</li>
<li>Theme Override Support – Copy templates to your theme for complete customization</li>
<li>Multisite Ready – Works perfectly on WordPress multisite networks</li>
<li>Clean Uninstall – Removes all data when deleted, leaves no trace</li>
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<h3>Template Collection</h3>
Your maintenance page should look as good as your site. Choose from:
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<li>Classic – Clean centered card with elegant purple gradient background</li>
<li>Minimal Dark – Ultra-modern dark theme with subtle cyan accents</li>
<li>Construction – Bold warning style with animated diagonal stripes</li>
<li>Gradient Wave – Smooth animated wave effect for a dynamic feel</li>
<li>Corporate – Professional business design with refined gold accents</li>
<li>Playful – Fun and friendly with floating colorful shapes</li>
<li>Neon – Cyberpunk-inspired with vibrant glow effects</li>
<li>Nature – Calm organic design with gentle leaf elements</li>
<li>Tech – Matrix-style digital aesthetic for tech brands</li>
<li>Countdown – Includes live countdown timer to your launch date</li>
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<h3>Developer Friendly</h3>
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<li>Override any template by copying it to <code>your-theme/devlab-maintenance-mode/</code></li>
<li>Minimal footprint – single database query, lightweight hooks</li>
<li>Clean, documented code following WordPress coding standards</li>
<li>Filters and actions for extending functionality</li>
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<h3>Perfect For</h3>
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<li>Site launches and “Coming Soon” pages</li>
<li>Scheduled maintenance windows</li>
<li>Major redesigns and migrations</li>
<li>WooCommerce store updates</li>
<li>Development and staging sites</li>
<li>Client preview access during development</li>
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DevLab Maintenance Mode

Display a beautiful maintenance page with 10 templates, role-based bypass, IP whitelist, secret access links, and SEO-friendly 503 handling.

jfinch3

Peter Hardy-vanDoorn

This plugin is intended primarily for designers / developers that need to allow clients to preview sites before being available to the general public or to temporarily hide your WordPress site while undergoing major updates.
Any logged in user with WordPress administrator privileges will be allowed to view the site regardless of the settings in the plugin. The exact privilege can be set using a filter hook – see FAQs.
The behaviour of this plugin can be enabled or disabled at any time without losing any of the settings configured in its settings pane. However, deactivating the plugin is recommended versus having it activated while disabled.
When redirect is enabled it can send 2 different header types. “200 OK” is best used for when the site is under development and “503 Service Temporarily Unavailable” is best for when the site is temporarily taken offline for small amendments. If used for a long period of time, 503 can damage your Google ranking.
A list of IP addresses can be set up to completely bypass maintenance mode. This option is useful when needing to allow a client’s entire office to access the site while in maintenance mode without needing to maintain individual access keys. See FAQ below about working through a proxy.
Access keys work by creating a cookie on the user’s computer that will be checked for when maintenance mode is active. When a new key is created, a link to create the access key cookie will be emailed to the email address provided. Access can then be revoked either by disabling or deleting the key.
This plugin allows three methods of notifying users that a site is undergoing maintenance:
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They can be presented with a simple message.
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They can be presented with a custom HMTL page.
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They can be redirected to a static HTML page. This static page will need to be uploaded to the server via FTP or some other method. This plugin DOES NOT include any way to upload the static page file. Any URL can be used here, and it doesn’t need to be on the same server (so you could redirect back to the client’s current site if you’re working on a dev site, for example). However, it should NOT be the URL of a WordPress page or post on the same site as this will result in an infinite redirect loop.
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Maintenance Redirect

Display a maintenance mode page and allow invited visitors to bypass the functionality to preview the site.

DevLab Maintenance Mode vs Maintenance Redirect