Beckin Maintenance Mode

Beckin Maintenance Mode is a lightweight, secure plugin that lets administrators safely put their WordPress site into maintenance mode without hurting SEO. It sends the proper 503 Service Unavailable header with an optional Retry-After value, shows a maintenance page to visitors while still allowing admin logins, and prevents caching to ensure your site reopens cleanly.

While maintenance mode is active, logged-in admins (and any other allowed roles) can continue working in the dashboard and browse the frontend normally. To preview the maintenance / coming soon page as a visitor, you can do any of the following:

• Open your site in a different browser
• Open an incognito or private window
• Use a device where you are not logged in
• Log out of the admin dashboard

The first 3 options easily let you preview the maintenance page without interrupting your own work. Everyone who is not logged in, or does not have permission to bypass maintenance mode, will see the maintenance page instead of your normal site.

Features
1. Smart 503 Response – Sends a proper HTTP 503 Service Unavailable header with optional Retry-After, which keeps your SEO safe.
2. Admin Bypass – Admins can log in and keep working without being blocked, even while maintenance mode is active.
3. Editor Bypass Mode – Optionally allow users who can edit posts (for example Editors and Authors) to keep working while visitors and subscribers see the maintenance page.
4. Feed & API Safe – RSS feeds and REST API requests aren’t broken, so external tools and readers still function.
5. Cache-Control Protection – Adds no-cache headers so the maintenance page isn’t cached by browsers or CDNs.
6. Simple Settings Page – Clean and intuitive admin UI using core WordPress settings API, with sanitized input and escaped output everywhere.
7. Admin Bar Badge – Shows a subtle “Maint. ON” badge when active for quick visibility.
8. CLI Integration – Offers WP-CLI commands (wp beckin-mm enable|disable|status) for devs managing maintenance mode programmatically.
9. Restricted Control – Only administrators (with the manage_options capability) can enable, disable, or change settings for maintenance mode.
10. Lightweight & Secure – No bloat and zero dependencies
11. Advanced Styling Controls – Customize the maintenance / coming soon page background colors, header and body text colors, and fully control the message box color and opacity.

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CLI commands

wp beckin-mm enable
wp beckin-mm disable
wp beckin-mm status

Automatic installation

1. Log into your WordPress admin
2. Click Plugins
3. Click Add New
4. Search for Beckin Maintenance Mode
5. Click Install Now under “Beckin Maintenance Mode”
6. Activate the plugin

Manual installation

1. Download the plugin
2. Extract the contents of the zip file
3. Upload the contents of the zip file to the wp-content/plugins/ folder of your WordPress installation
4. Activate the Beckin Maintenance Mode plugin from ‘Plugins’ page.

1. 

   Admin Settings Page

2. 

   Admin Settings Page Continued

3. 

   Frontend Maintenance Page

4. 

   Proper 503 response with Retry-After to protect SEO and no-cache headers

1.0.12 (11/20/2025)

Added
* Internationalization support so all plugin strings can be translated into other languages.
* Detailed translator comments for more complex strings to help translation editors.
* Generated the initial POT file for beckin-maintenance-mode to use on translate.wordpress.org.

Changed
* Clarified the description and FAQ to explain how to preview the maintenance page while logged in.

1.0.11 (11/19/2025)

Changed
* Updated the changelog styling

1.0.10 (11/19/2025)

Changed
* Added optional Editor bypass mode so users with the edit_posts capability can keep working during maintenance if the setting is enabled.
* Updated admin and frontend checks to share a single helper so bypass rules are consistent everywhere.

Fixed
* Prevented subscribers and other non permitted roles from accessing wp-admin while maintenance mode is enabled.
* Adjusted WP-CLI permission checks so commands can run reliably from the command line, even when no WordPress user is logged in.

1.0.9 (11/16/2025)

• Added full styling controls including background color, header text color, body text color, message box color, and message box opacity.
• Added new Styling Settings section in the admin settings page for better organization.
• Improved frontend rendering to support rgba backgrounds based on user selected opacity.
• Improved admin settings layout and section divider styling.

1.0.8

• Improved uninstall routine for better reliability across single and multisite installs.

1.0.7

• Fixed uninstall routine to prevent a fatal error by using a direct option key when constants aren’t loaded.

1.0.6

• Added customizable header title field for the maintenance page.
• Improved admin UI layout and input descriptions for clarity.
• Adjusted default settings to include a header field and made text inputs wider for easier editing.

1.0.5

• Added a small maintenance icon in the admin bar to remind users when Maintenance Mode is active.

1.0.4

• Added full PHPDoc class documentation for all core files. Added @since version tags and clarified inline documentation.

1.0.3

• Updated the plugin header.

1.0.2

• Added a donation link to the settings page.

1.0.1

• Updated plugin name and slug

1.0.0

• Initial release.