Maintenance
Great looking maintenance, coming soon & under construction pages. Put your site under maintenance in minutes.
Safe pick
Yes — Maintenance is a safe, well-maintained plugin to use in 2026. It runs on 1M+ sites, is rated 4.4/5 and was last updated 1 month ago, and scores 91/100 on our health check.
- One of the most-used plugins on the web — 1M+ active sites
- Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)
How does it stack up?
Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support
Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Maintenance stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| coming soon | #11 |
| coming soon page | #8 |
| maintenance | #1 |
| maintenance mode | #1 |
| maintenance page | #1 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 from 864 reviews
About Maintenance
From the official readme · v4.32Description
WP Maintenance plugin allows the WordPress site administrator to close the website for maintenance, enable “503 Service temporarily unavailable”, set a temporary page with authorization, which can be edited via the plugin settings. Add your logo, background image, select the desired color and text – all with easy maintenance builder. Maintenance uses Bunny Fonts for EU GDPR compliance.
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Features
- over 200 themes in the PRO version
- Full-screen background (Backstretch)
- Blur background effect
- Upload your own logo
- Configurable colors: fonts, icons, background
- Customize title, headline, text
- User login on frontend
- Admin bar status
- 503 error on/off
- Google analytics support
- Exclude selected pages from Maintenance mode
- Support for all popular caching plugins
- mtnc_load_maintenance_page_for_this_user filter for modifying show sees the maintenance page
Support
If you have any problems, questions or recommendations about WP Maintenance please open a ticket in the official support forum. We answer all questions within hours!
Want to say “thank you”? Please leave a review.
GDPR Compatibility
We are not lawyers. Please do not take any of the following as legal advice.
If you don’t opt to use Bunny Fonts and don’t use Google Analytics then no resources are loaded or shared with 3rd parties. And nothing is tracked. Opting to use any of those services will result in data sharing/tracking as described in their terms of service.
Maintenance uses these 3rd party libs:
- Super simple WYSIWYG editor v0.9.0, MIT
- SweetAlert 2, github.com/Sweetalert2/Sweetalert2, MIT
- jscolor Color Picker, GNU GPL v3
- Ace Editor (Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor), BSD
- Web Font Loader, Apache 2 License
Installation
Follow the usual routine;
- Open WordPress admin, go to Plugins, click Add New
- Enter “maintenance” in search and hit Enter
- Locate the Maintenance plugin by searching for our mascot, click “Install Now”
- Activate & open plugin’s settings page located in the main WP admin menu
Or if needed, upload manually;
- Download the plugin.
- Unzip it and upload to /wp-content/plugins/
- Open WordPress admin – Plugins and click “Activate” next to the plugin
- Activate & open plugin’s settings page located in the main WP admin menu
Frequently asked questions
I have activated plugin and don’t see any changes, looks like plugin is not working.
Try to check in different browser. If you a logged as WordPress user you see the website in normal mode.
Will my site remain visible to search engines while maintenance mode is on?
The site will not be visible to search engines only if “503 Service Temporarily Unavailable” option is enabled.
Where can I find out the username and password to get to the site?
You can use your “normal” WP administrator access or create a new user in WordPress dashboard – Users.
I haven’t found an answer to my question, what should I do?
Please post the question on the support forum.
How can I report security bugs?
You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team help validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. Report a security vulnerability.
Changelog
v4.32
- 2026/07/13
- minor bug fix
v4.31
- 2026/06/30
- changed login icon back to padlock
- minor bug fixes
v4.30
- 2026/06/18
- complete rewrite, new options, new GUI
- drag&drop maintenance page builder
v4.21
- 2026/04/02
- Minor fixes
v4.20
- 2026/01/03
- Fixed Bunny Fonts getting loaded even for system fonts
v4.19
- 2025/11/19
- WordPress 6.9 compatibility
Screenshots
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FAQ
Maintenance: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 27, 2026
Is Maintenance free?
Yes. Maintenance is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Maintenance safe to use in 2026?
Yes — Maintenance is a safe, well-maintained plugin to use in 2026. It runs on 1M+ sites, is rated 4.4/5 and was last updated 1 month ago, and scores 91/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Maintenance?
Maintenance is active on 1M+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 19,181,738 times since it launched in May 2012. It was downloaded 119,282 times in the last 30 days.
Does Maintenance work with WordPress 7.1?
Yes. The developer has tested Maintenance up to WordPress 7.1.2, the latest release. It requires WordPress 4.4 or newer.
What PHP version does Maintenance need?
Maintenance requires PHP 5.2 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was Maintenance last updated?
The latest version, 4.32, was released on August 16, 2026 (1 month ago).
Who makes Maintenance?
Maintenance is developed and maintained by WebFactory.
What are the best alternatives to Maintenance?
The most popular alternatives to Maintenance are LightStart (400K+ installs), CMP (200K+ installs) and Minimal Coming Soon (100K+ installs).
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