If you’re a regular reader of All Useful Info, you would have noticed that I’ve written a detailed guide on “How to put your WordPress blog on Maintenance mode” and if you’ve read that post, you won’t need to read it because in that post I’ve used a WordPress plugin called WP Maintenance Mode for putting the blog or website on maintenance mode very easily.
However, here I’m going to provide a few other WordPress maintenance mode plugins so that you can find the best one for you. These WordPress plugins make your job very easy and without letting you write any single code, put your blog or website on maintenance mode.
Different plugins may have different features such as some allowing you to add your own logo on the maintenance page and some not. So, look at the following plugins to find a better plugin to put your site in maintenance mode.
1. Instant Maintenance WP
Instant Maintenance WP is a free WordPress maintenance mode plugin that helps you hide your website while making updates or preparing for launch. You can quickly create a professional maintenance or coming soon page without writing any code. It also lets you customize the design, collect visitor emails, share a private preview with clients, and keep search engines properly informed while your website is unavailable.
Features:
- Choose from maintenance, coming soon, client preview, and countdown modes
- Customize six ready-made templates with your logo, colors, text, images, and social links
- Display a countdown timer and automatically launch your website at a scheduled time
- Give clients private preview access through a secure link that expires after 48 hours
- Collect email subscriptions and contact messages directly from the maintenance page
- Send the correct 503 status and Retry-After header to help protect your website’s SEO
- Keep administrators logged in and exclude selected pages or user roles from maintenance mode
- Use the plugin for free without creating an account or accessing an external dashboard.
2. YITH Maintenance Mode
YITM Maintenance Mode is a great plugin for putting your WordPress blog or website in maintenance mode when you’re working on it and would like to make it known to your visitors. With this plugin, you can set up a lovely customizable page by adding your website’s logo to let your visitors know the site is closed for maintenance.
Features:
- You can add your website’s logo on the maintenance page
- Link social media profiles
- Let your visitors enter their emails to get notified when maintenance is completed
- This plugin is 100% compatible with WPML
- Different skins are available to set on the maintenance page.
3. WP Maintenance Mode
WP Maintenance Mode is another popular plugin to put your blog on maintenance mode anytime whenever you required it. As I told you above that a few days ago I created a guide for how can you put your website on maintenance mode, so honestly I used this plugin for the whole process. Here are some features of this plugin that you may like.
Features:
- Create a fully customization maintenance page
- A subscription form can be added to the maintenance page
- The countdown timer can be set to tell visitors the remaining time for the site to be ready
- Different templates for landing page
- Responsive design and works with any WordPress theme
- SEO Options (Very important feature).
So, how did you find these WordPress plugins to put your website or blog in maintenance mode? I hope fantastic for me. 🙂
However, there are lots of WordPress plugins available for putting your website or blog on maintenance mode but I’m sure that after using any of the above-mentioned plugin, you won’t further need to search any other plugin for putting your site on maintenance mode.
Nonetheless, if you find any plugin (other than that mentioned above) that works fantastically for you, share it with other visitors via comments.
