Maintenance mode or site offline type plugin is very useful when you are running maintenance work in the backend of your site. Maintenance mode plugin can also be very useful when you are launching a new site and would like your users to know that it’s under construction and will be coming soon. In this article I put together a list of of the top Maintenance Mode/Coming Soon/Site Offline/Site Under Construction Type Plugins For WordPress.
Coming Soon
Coming Soon is the #1 maintenance mode plugin in the official WordPress plugin repository. This plugin is authored by SeedProd and has over 400,000 active installs with 745 five-star ratings. Coming Soon plugin is used for creating both coming soon/maintenance mode type pages.
Features
- Enable either coming soon/maintenance mode
- SEO for the coming soon/maintenance page (e.g. title, meta description)
- Enable Google Analytics tracking on the coming soon/maintenance page
- Customize the background color/image
- Enable/disable responsive background
- Customize the text color, text font, link color, headline color
- Add custom CSS to tweak the default coming soon/maintenance page template
- Support for Multisite, BuddyPress
- Translation ready with i18n support
Here is a screenshot of the coming soon page displayed by the Coming Soon plugin (Coming Soon Page Mode returns a http status code 200 when a search crawler comes to your site. This allows your site to be indexed by Google and other searching engines even though it’s not available to the public):
Here is a screenshot of the maintenance mode page displayed by the Coming Soon plugin (Maintenance Mode returns a http status code 503 which lets the search engines know that your site is temporarily down for maintenance):
WP Maintenance Mode
WP Maintenance Mode is the #2 maintenance mode plugin in the official WordPress plugin repository. This plugin is authored by Designmodo and has over 500,000 active installs with 121 five-star ratings. WP Maintenance Mode is widely used in the WordPress community for creating a maintenance mode/site offline type page.
Features
- Enable/Disable maintenance mode
- Allow search engines to bypass maintenance mode and index your site while going under maintenance
- Control what WordPress user role (e.g. Administrator) can access the backend of your site while it’s going under maintenance
- Control what WordPress user role (e.g. Administrator) can access the frontend of your site while it’s going under maintenance
- Exclude certain pages from maintenance mode
- Customize the title, heading, heading color and the content of the maintenance mode page (visual editor supported)
- Choose your background template, color
- Show countdown to the users to let them know when your site will be available
- Allow users to subscribe with their email addresses
- Show social sharing icons such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Dribbble, Github
- Contact option via a contact form
Here is a screenshot of the maintenance mode page displayed by the WP Maintenance Mode plugin:
LJ Maintenance Mode
LJ Maintenance Mode is the #3 maintenance mode plugin in the official WordPress plugin repository. This plugin is authored by Lukas Juhas and has over 40,000 active installs with 39 five-star ratings. LJ WP Maintenance Mode is used in the WordPress community for creating a simple maintenance mode/coming soon type page.
Features
- Switch to maintenance/coming soon mode
- Customize the content of the maintenance mode page with visual editor
Here is a screenshot of the maintenance mode page displayed by the LJ Maintenance Mode plugin:
Minimal Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode
Minimal Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode is the #4 maintenance mode plugin in the official WordPress plugin repository. This plugin is authored by WebFactory and has over 20,000 active installs with 32 five-star ratings. Minimal Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode plugin is used in the WordPress community for quickly creating a maintenance mode/coming soon/launch page.
Features
- Customize every element of the coming soon/maintenance mode page
- Collect email address from your visitor with the subscribe button
- Full MailChimp API support
- Support for Google Analytics tracking
- Support Google fonts
- Translation ready with i18n support
Here is a screenshot of the coming soon page displayed by the Minimal Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode plugin:
Here is a screenshot of the maintenance mode page displayed by the Minimal Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode plugin:
