Best maintenance mode WordPress plugins
In order to keep your loyal visitors’ faith uncompromised, here are 7 of the best maintenance mode WordPress plugins you can use to create and display a nice Maintenance mode page to your visitors.
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To keep your website in top form, you need to run routine maintenance – updating, backups, optimization, cleanup, malware scans and repairs… these seemingly insignificant tasks keep your site safe and functional.
But maintenance means downtime, and you can’t afford to lose your audience forever by giving them an impression that you’re offline forever.
Best WordPress Maintenance Mode Plugins for Seamless Website Updates
SKT Maintenance
Price: Free
SKT Maintenance is free maintenance mode plugin. But when it comes to features, it packs quite a punch.
The plugin lets you build a super cool maintenance/ coming soon/ offline page using any combination of different background types (video, image slideshow, solid color, etc.), countdown timers, fonts and icons, shortcodes, 3D effects and pixel overlay pattersn, Mailchimp and PHP subscription forms (with configurable field validation settings), and more.
The plugin includes an HTML version and lets you import/export page settings in a few clicks.
For those who love variety and endless choices at their hands, this plugin is an absolute must.
Minimal Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode
Price: Free
With this plugin, the interface as well as the end product you create (maintenance or coming soon page) is minimalistic. It’s perfect for every modern user and brand that can do without frilly embellishments.
You get the features to customize and configure background colors, cover image, fonts, and element placement (forms, logos, countdowns, whatever you’ve got) via built in options or custom HTML and CSS.
The plugin is fully compatible with all WordPress themes, caching plugins (like W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache), and supports custom login URLs, analytics, selective user-role based page display, optional display for search engines (lets bots view the website as usual while you run maintenance).
It’s translation ready, highly customizable, and simple to boot. Your developers and/or clients will love it.
Verde – Responsive WordPress Coming Soon Plugin
Price: $17
Verde is absolutely worth it. And here’s why.
The plugin packs some brilliant features – Cookie authentication message, Google Maps enabled background, Captcha enabled Mailchimp subscriber forms and AJAX contact forms, externally hosted video (Youtube and Vimeo) support, super cool text effects, social icons, and a pre-translated admin as well as front-end interface (in Spanish, French, Italian, and German).
It’s sophisticated and fast. And the results are absolutely stunning. Give it a go if you want an unforgettable look + on-page experience.
WP Maintenance Mode
Price: Free
This one is a classic for good reason.
WP Maintenance comes with configurable options for colors, fonts, backgrounds, countdown timers, and pre built templates to let you create great landing pages, maintenance and coming soon pages, and more with ease.
The plugin also packs social icons, contact forms, SEO options, and in-built subscriber data export features.
It’s multisite compatible and works well with all WordPress themes – a brilliant bargain for WordPress blogs and websites everywhere.
Coming Soon Page and Maintenance Mode by SeedProd
Price: Free, Pro Versions starting from $29 (one time purchase)
This is the plugin that was Ultimate Maintenance Mode – only cooler and so much more awesome.
Both versions of this plugin are BuddyPress and multisite compatible, translation ready, brilliantly responsive and feature-packed. You have no end of page customization options – backgrounds, labels, forms, effects, colors, fonts, icons, and more.
The pro version has additional features which lets you display maintenance mode selectively (based on user role), secret links, SEO options, analytics, Google and TypeKit font packs, automatic screenshots, embeddable videos, built-in referral system, subscriber forms and campaign monitor integration, analytics, and so much more.
It’s trusted by hundreds of thousands of WordPress-ers. You can’t go wrong with this plugin.
LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder
Price: Free, Elite versions starting from $14.95 (one time purchase)
EZP is fun and easy to work with.
The plugin keeps it simple with easy customization options (design, layout, colors, fonts, icons, logos, etc.) and some nice, handy features like Social sharing (Facebook, Twitter, and Google+), Custom error message for coming soon mode, Mailchimp and Aweber subscriber forms, easy CSS edits, and more.
You get even more features with Elite, namely video backgrounds, Google Fonts and effects, countdown and auto-disable maintenance page (when it reaches zero), auto sync with Mailchimp, additional social icons, and more.
It’s pretty neat. I recommend it for bloggers and publishers who don’t bother much with coding but are diligent about technical issues nonetheless.
Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode Page & Under Construction
Price: Free, Premium version available for $19.99 (one time purchase)
One of a kind, Site Offline or Coming Soon isn’t frilly. It gets the job done with aplomb. And since it’s a WP eCommerce product, you can count on it to do what it does well.
It has all the usual features, watered down for added sophistication/ simplicity (depending on how you look at it). The plugin has admin and login screen notifications added to usual message and design options.
Premium version gives you social icons, subscription forms, countdown timers, analytics integration, and some extensive customization options for background, headers, HTML, and more.
This is a quaint, simple plugin – the kind that will never give up on you.
Slim Maintenance Mode
A portable option for planned maintenance is Slim Maintenance Mode. Just turn on the plugin, and the website will only be accessible by administrators. It is one of the best maintenance mode plugins for numerous websites.
There are no excess settings. Simply activate it, perform any necessary maintenance, and then deactivate it. When the plugin is active, an alert message appears in the backend. Any theme will work with it. The cache plugins Cachify, LiteSpeed Cache, Super Cache, WP Rocket, WP Fastest Cache, and W3 Total Cache are supported. The HTTP response status code 503 Service Unavailable, which is particularly pertinent for search engines, is sent by this plugin.
Conclusion
Maintenance mode need not be a blight on your site’s traffic and user experience stats in the long run.
Heck, they can even be an opportunity to profit (thanks to all the subscription forms that will collect leads while your site is down) with the help of these brilliant maintenance mode/ coming soon plugins.
Use them well. And don’t forget to share your experiences (good or bad) with us in the comments section below.
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