Stach Redeker

<p>The Minimal Maintenance Mode plugin is a simple and lightweight solution to enable a maintenance mode on your WordPress website. The plugin is free, fast, and can be deployed within minutes.<br />
When the maintenance mode is active, the plugin displays a customizable message for all not-logged-in users.<br />
It is possible to set a custom secret phrase that users can append to the website URL to get access, even if they are not logged in.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Enable a maintenance mode to restrict access to your website.</li>
<li>Customize the maintenance mode message and heading.</li>
<li>Automatic bypass for logged-in users and administrators.</li>
<li>Option to set a secret phrase to bypass maintenance mode via URL parameter.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuration and usage</h3>
<p>To enable maintenance mode and set the message displayed during maintenance, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to the WordPress admin menu and click on ‘Maintenance Mode’.</li>
<li>Customize the maintenance mode heading and message.</li>
<li>(Optional) Pick a secret phrase to let not-logged-in users bypass the maintenance mode.</li>
<li>Save the settings and activate the maintenance mode by pressing ‘Save and activate’.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Bypassing maintenance mode</h3>
<p>If you need to access your website during maintenance mode, you can use the following methods:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>For administrators and logged-in users</strong>: logged-in users can access the website normally. Also, the <code>/wp-admin/</code> pages will not be blocked.</li>
<li><strong>Using the secret phrase</strong>: Append <code>?[SECRET PHRASE]</code> to any URL to bypass the maintenance mode for a week. A functional cookie is placed on the user’s machine to make this work. If the secret phrase is changed, access using the old secret phrase is revoked immediately. The secret phrase can be configured in the advanced plugin settings.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Privacy notices</h3>
<p>This plugin does not:</p>
<ul>
<li>track users;</li>
<li>write any user personal data to the database;</li>
<li>send any data to external servers.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>Please use the appropriate forums, <a href="https://github.com/StachRedeker/Minimal-Maintenance-Mode/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">issues on Github</a>, or send an <a href="mailto:info@stachredeker.nl" rel="nofollow ugc">email</a>.</p>
<h3>Contributing</h3>
<p>This plugin is deliberately simple. It is made as a foolproof, quick, and privacy-friendly way for site administrators to activate a maintenance mode. This plugin will not be extended with loads of features, such as templates and styling options; there are plenty of other maintenance plugins to pick that do offer these options. If you nevertheless think that you can contribute to the plugin (e.g. by submitting a bug fix), please open a pull request.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>The Minimal Maintenance Mode plugin is licensed under the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU General Public License v3.0</a>.</p>


Minimal Maintenance Mode

The Minimal Maintenance Mode plugin is a simple and lightweight solution to enable a maintenance mode on your WordPress website.

Daan van den Bergh

<p><strong>CAOS can be downloaded for free without any paid subscription from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/host-analyticsjs-local/" rel="ugc">the official WordPress repository</a>.</strong></p>
<p>CAOS (Complete Analytics Optimization Suite) for Google Analytics allows you to <strong>host gtag.js</strong> locally and keep it updated using WordPress’ built-in Cron-schedule. Fully automatic!</p>
<p>Not a big Google Analytics user and just curious about your pageviews? CAOS fully supports <a href="https://github.com/jahilldev/minimal-analytics/tree/main/packages/ga4#readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Minimal Analytics 4</a>. An extremely lightweight alternative to Google Analytics’ default libraries (gtag.js). <em>Minimal Analytics also helps you get rid of that annoying <strong>Unused JS</strong> notice in Google PageSpeed Insights!</em></p>
<p>Whenever you run an analysis of your website on <em>Google Pagespeed Insights</em>, <em>Pingdom</em> or <em>GTMetrix</em>, it’ll tell you to <strong>leverage browser cache</strong> when you’re using Google Analytics. Because Google has set the cache expiry time to 2 hours. This plugin will get you a <strong>higher score</strong> on Pagespeed and Pingdom and make <strong>your website load faster</strong>, because the user’s browser doesn’t have to make a roundtrip to download the file from Google’s external server.</p>
<p>Just install the plugin, enter your Mesurement ID and the plugin adds the necessary Tracking Code for Google Analytics 4 to the header (or footer) of your theme, downloads and saves the gtag.js-file to your website’s server and keeps it updated (automagically) using a scheduled script in wp_cron(). Or if you’d like to use the locally hosted file with another plugin, check <strong>Compatibility Mode</strong> under <em>Advanced Settings</em>, Either way, CAOS is a set and forget plugin.</p>
<p>For more information: [How to setup CAOS](For more information: <a href="https://daan.dev/docs/caos/?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=caos" rel="nofollow ugc">How to setup CAOS</a>.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Host gtag.js for Google Analytics 4 locally,</li>
<li>Downloaded files are renamed to random strings to avoid ad blockers,</li>
<li>Minimal Analytics 4 support,</li>
<li>Compatibility Mode allows you to use the locally hosted file with all Google Analytics plugins, e.g.
<ul>
<li>MonsterInsights (Pro),</li>
<li>ExactMetrics</li>
<li>Site Kit by Google,</li>
<li>WooCommerce Google Analytics Integration,</li>
<li>WooCommerce Google Analytics Pro,</li>
<li>Analytify,</li>
<li>And many more!</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Compatible with all Cookie Notice plugins, e.g.
<ul>
<li>Complianz,</li>
<li>CookieYes,</li>
<li>WP Cookie Notice,</li>
<li>Cookie Notice & Compliance,</li>
<li>Cookie Notice & Consent Banner,</li>
<li>And many more!</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Preconnect to google-analytics.com to reduce latency and speed up requests,</li>
<li><strong>Add tracking code</strong> to header, <strong>footer</strong> or manually,</li>
<li>Save gtag.js anywhere within the WordPress content (wp-content) directory to avoid detection by WordPress security plugins (such as WordFence) or removal by caching plugins (such as WP Super Cache),</li>
<li>Serve gtag.js from your CDN,</li>
<li>Set Cookie Expiry Period,</li>
<li>Force disabling display features functionalities,</li>
<li>Track logged in Administrators,</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features in CAOS Pro</h3>
<p>Use Google Analytics in <a href="https://daan.dev/blog/wordpress/gdpr-compliance-google-analytics/?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=caos" rel="nofollow ugc">compliance with GDPR</a> with:<br />
– Randomize Client ID (which grants a fresh, untraceable UUID/ClientID to each visitor),<br />
– Stealth Mode (a unique, customized API, designed for WordPress, which anonymizes your visitor’s data before sending it to Google’s servers).</p>
<p>Other features:<br />
– Cloaked Affiliate Link Tracking,<br />
– Cloudflare Compatibility Mode.</p>


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