Title: WP Maintenance Author: Florent Maillefaud Published: Pebrero 13, 2013 Last modified: Pebrero 4, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-maintenance/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=2661063) ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-maintenance/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2194706) # WP Maintenance By [Florent Maillefaud](https://profiles.wordpress.org/florent73/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-maintenance.6.1.10.1.zip) * [Details](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-maintenance/#description) * [Reviews](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-maintenance/#reviews) * [Installation](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-maintenance/#installation) * [Development](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-maintenance/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-maintenance/) ## Description The WP Maintenance plugin allows you to put your website on the waiting time for you to do maintenance or launch your website. Personalize this page, pictures and countdown with: ### Features * Choice texts colors and fonts * Upload logo picture * Upload background picture or pattern * Countdown * Custom Code Header for Analytics ready * Social Networks ready * Customize CSS * Insert for shorcode (Newletter or Contact form) * Enable “503 Service temporarily unavailable” * Choose access by Roles and Capabilities * Choose access by ID Pages * Choose access by IP addresses wp-maintenance.pot file available ## Screenshots * [[ * General view * [[ * View by visitors to your site * [[ * Colors and fonts settings * [[ * Upload a personal header, background and slides picture * [[ * Countdown settings * [[ * CSS settings * [[ * Others settings ## Installation 1. Upload the full directory into your ‘/wp-content/plugins’ directory 2. Activate the plugin at the plugin administration page You will find ‘WP Maintenance’ menu in your WordPress admin panel ## FAQ ### WP Maintenance Needs Your Support It is hard to continue development and support for this free plugin without contributions from users like you. If you enjoy using WP Maintenance and find it useful, please consider [making a donation](https://www.paypal.me/RestezConnectes/25). Your donation will help encourage and support the plugin’s continued development and better user support. ### I have activated plugin and don’t see any changes, looks like plugin is not working. This is normal because you are logged in as an administrator. Try a different browser or use the preview link. If you have registered as a wordpress user, you see the site in normal mode. ### I have disabled plugin but I don’t see any changes, I have always the maintenance page, looks like plugin is not working. You have a cache plugin ? Try to purge it and try again. ### Where can I find out the login page to get to the site? You can use your administrator access or create new user in wordpress dashboard https://yousite.com/wp-admin/ ### Can I change the plugin code? Yes. Thank you for submitting your changes to update the plugin. ### Translations You can translate WP Maintenance on [**translate.wordpress.org**](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-maintenance). ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7185feed5721f1f425d158fd43d4851c7cf5221aaa65ed71983fccb886bc240e? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Excellent and simple – does what it needs to do](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-and-simple-does-what-it-needs-to-do/)󠁿 [DingoBlue](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dingoblue/) Pebrero 15, 2026 Very simple to set up and very versatile. The “under maintenance” page presented quickly and professionally. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/626352bd0e07b9756836c7f129109a6a959878e0c0899ec03aa5a67c7657a1b4? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[excellent and simple](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-and-simple-53/)󠁿 [gregoire1974](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gregoire1974/) Nobyembre 13, 2025 very good plugin. All what you need. Very intuitive, no bullshit, no shiny useless crap, and straightforward to handle. and free. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/beff5729cda42349fdbcc2eb712d3552ee3c76ab9bda9cd93afda3af22803562? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great Plugin. Minor omission](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-minor-omission/)󠁿 [ebrabich2](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ebrabich2/) Setyembre 14, 2025 Does everything it promises. Small & customisable. Minus 1 star for omitting Bluesky option when there’s 16 other social networks listed. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9111236025d47e977dea00b632a5b5cab19821646d44bd982b10e51e560803ab? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Use with caution and at your own risk – can break your site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-with-caution-and-at-your-own-risk-can-break-your-site/)󠁿 [John Bradfield](https://profiles.wordpress.org/john-bradfield/) Setyembre 11, 2025 After many days of customization, broke my site on uninstalling the plugin. Install this plugin at your own risk :-{ ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/559668422779c12497ca9d22e804fdbc594783fa66ce250bb37fbb51dbe72daf? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Small and useful](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/small-and-useful-4/)󠁿 [mailchef](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mailchef/) Hulyo 29, 2025 I like it. Small and useful. Does what it is supposed to do. Merci! Small problems: Link to Honeypotexplanation file not working Translation problems “Choice”. Should be “Chose” Logic problem in options: Display in Admin bar? Yes, remove display in admin bar. Should just be “Display in Admin bar? Yes. Unclear what it means if site displays roles with a maintenance screen. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a4babfd10111b95936a6bea8d17e03f91cc74cc6f0a0654a3c120f2199d114d5? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Fantastic plugin!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fantastic-plugin-2061/)󠁿 [Betty_](https://profiles.wordpress.org/betty_/) Hunyo 9, 2025 This plugin is fantastic, it is the best of the ones I have tried.It has many options and is very intuitive.Thank you! [ Read all 99 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-maintenance/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “WP Maintenance” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Florent Maillefaud ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/florent73/) “WP Maintenance” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-maintenance/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “WP Maintenance” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-maintenance) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-maintenance/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-maintenance/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-maintenance/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-maintenance/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 6.1.10.1 * Fixed bug iframe : adding fields for values of iframe #### 6.1.10.0 * Fixed bug pattern #### 6.1.9.9 * Fixed security problem: integrate import/export option * Fixed security & vulnerability XSS problems #### 6.1.9.8 * Fixed security problem: remove import/export option #### 6.1.9.7 * Fixed bug update socials networks #### 6.1.9.6 * Fixed bug pattern * Fixed bug Header Code * Fixed bug Import Settings #### 6.1.9.5 * Bug fixed sortable socials networks * Adding Tiktok icon #### 6.1.9.4 * Adding hidden countdown option * Change Twitter icon to X #### 6.1.9.3 * Fixed security issue #### 6.1.9.2 * Fixed bug Google Fonts #### 6.1.9.1 * Fixed bug Roles and Capabilities #### 6.1.9 * Fixed security issue #### 6.1.8 * Bug fixed for Disable REST API if not logged and maintenance no actived #### 6.1.7 * Adding for disabled for display admin bar option * Disable REST API if not logged #### 6.1.6 * Optimized function for Google Fonts in stylesheet #### 6.1.5 * Reintroducing IP address option. Tested and sanitize IP addresses * ID pages option. Tested ID pages if exist and sanitize it #### 6.1.4 * Remove IP address option for security #### 6.1.3 * Bug checkbox fixed * Bug Social Networks #### 6.1.2 * Adding remove Google Fonts option #### 6.1.1 * Bug Header Code fixed #### 6.1.0 * Bug User Role autorized fixed * Change Ip Addresses settings #### 6.0.9 * Bug IP autorized fixed #### 6.0.8 * Several security patches brought * WARNING : somes parameters will be reinitilized, please check all #### 6.0.7 * Remove Slider option * Several security patches brought #### 6.0.6 * Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability fixed * Bug fixed Social Icons * Bugs minors resolved #### 6.0.5 * Changing theme * Using native CodeMirror #### 6.0.4 * Adding Width and Height for image #### 6.0.3 * Bug fixed Error Notice * Bugs minors resolved #### 6.0.2 * Bug fixed IP authorized #### 6.0.1 * Bug fixed Code Analytics #### 6.0.0 * New design * This version is a major version and somes settings are changed. Check your settings after update. ## Meta * Version **6.1.10.1** * Last updated **2 bulan ago** * Active installations **50numero_pormat_thousands_sep000+** * WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.9.4** * Languages * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-maintenance/), [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-maintenance/), and [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-maintenance/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-maintenance) * Tags * [coming soon](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/coming-soon/)[construction](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/construction/) [launch](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/launch/)[maintenance](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/maintenance/) * [Advanced View](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-maintenance/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.7 out of 5 stars. * [ 85 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-maintenance/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 5 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-maintenance/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 2 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-maintenance/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 2 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-maintenance/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 4 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-maintenance/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-maintenance/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-maintenance/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Florent Maillefaud ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/florent73/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-maintenance/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](https://paypal.me/restezconnectes/20/)