Maintenance GENIUS
Every tab, explained

Customize the title (H1), an optional subtitle (H2) and the message shown to visitors. The title and subtitle are plain text; the message accepts basic HTML and line breaks. The Preview button opens the page in a new tab.

Set a start and end date and time, with the time zone: maintenance switches itself on and off. The schedule is checked on every visit to the site. At the scheduled end, "Notify me" subscribers are emailed, caches are emptied and key pages are compared with their earlier state.

Built-in form that lets visitors leave their email address to be told when the site reopens. The button text and confirmation message can be customized. The number of collected addresses is shown in the admin, with CSV export. When maintenance ends, an email is sent automatically to each subscriber.

Countdown in 3 styles: Boxes, Minimal and Circles. Shows days, hours, minutes and seconds as you choose. An option, on by default, switches maintenance off automatically when the countdown ends. The countdown date is set separately from scheduled maintenance.

Pick your logo from the WordPress Media Library. A slider sets its size from 50 to 300 px without editing the image. The logo appears above the title of the maintenance page. Formats: those your Media Library accepts.

11 ready-made designs: one click applies colours, fonts, layout and animations. GENIUS Orange, Soft & Pastel, Construction, Dark & Elegant, Light & Clean, Professional, Startup, Nature, Futuristic, Playful and Christmas, 9 of them with an original background generated by code. 5 complete themes are also included. All included, without restriction.

5 colour pickers, each with its own opacity: background 1, background 2, title, message and button. Each opacity is set from 0% to 100%. The Preview button shows the result in a new tab.

Pick your own background image from the WordPress Media Library. It covers the whole screen (cover, centred), under a colour overlay whose opacity you set.

Controls the appearance of the central content block: background color, opacity and drop shadow. Allows creating a floating card effect or transparent background depending on the desired design.

10 fonts bundled with the plugin (Poppins, Open Sans, Roboto, Lato, Montserrat, Playfair Display, Raleway, Inter, Nunito and Merriweather), chosen separately for the title and the message. Title size (24 to 72 px) and message size (12 to 36 px) are adjustable in the free plugin. Nothing is loaded from Google Fonts.

6 animations: fade, slide up, slide down, pulse, bounce and zoom — chosen separately for the logo, the text and the button. Duration is adjustable from 200 to 2000 ms.

Vector animations in Lottie format (.json or .lottie), played by a player bundled with the plugin. Upload your file or paste the address of a .json file. Position, size, offset, speed, loop and autoplay are adjustable. With GDPR mode (on by default), an animation hosted on another website is ignored.

Paste the address of a YouTube or Vimeo video to show it as the page background: autoplay, looping, no controls, muted by default, with adjustable opacity. The player loads from YouTube or Vimeo servers, which receive the visitor's IP address. No design includes a video.

Slightly moves the central block and the background with mouse movement. Intensity is set with a slider. The effect depends on the mouse: it does not occur on a touch screen, and it is turned off if the visitor has asked for reduced motion.

Floating side panel, on the left or right, with your Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and TikTok links and your contact details (email, phone, WhatsApp). You choose the tab colour. Helps you stay in touch with your clients during maintenance.

Save your current configuration as a reusable preset. Export it as a JSON file and import it to other sites. Ideal for agencies maintaining multiple client sites with consistent designs.

Share a password to give access to specific visitors. The password is hashed with wp_hash_password() (bcrypt since WordPress 6.8). The access cookie is signed with SHA-256 and flagged httponly, secure (on an HTTPS site) and samesite. The access duration is adjustable (24 hours by default) and all active access can be revoked in one click.

Allow access by WordPress role (editor, author, etc.), IP address (exact, with a wildcard such as 192.168.* or as a CIDR range), user agent and URL. Administrators always have access unless their IP address or user agent is on the blacklist. A visitor allowed by any criterion can reach the site.

Block visitors by IP address (exact, with a wildcard or as a CIDR range) or by user agent. The blacklist also applies outside maintenance, to pages generated by WordPress; a page served directly by a page cache does not go through it. For a hard block, use your firewall or Cloudflare.

Create unique, named access links valid for 1 hour, 24 hours, 1 week, 30 days or with no limit. Example: "Client ABC — 24 hours". Each opening of the link is counted, and each token can be deleted individually. Ideal for giving clients or collaborators access without sharing the visitor password.

With the logging option (off by default), each attempt blocked by the blacklist is recorded. The table shows the latest 50: date, IP address, user agent and reason. Buttons to refresh or clear the log.

Cloudflare Turnstile protection, off by default, on the "Notify me" form and on the visitor password form. Requires a site key and a secret key, provided free by Cloudflare. While Turnstile is on, the visitor's browser loads the Cloudflare script on the maintenance page.

Off by default. Once enabled, they count visits and unique visitors to the maintenance page since the activation date. IP addresses are hashed, never stored in plain text. The figures can be reset.

Sends one real test email to the administrator address (at most one per minute) and confirms that wp_mail() accepts it. Delivery to the inbox then depends on the site's mail setup (SPF, DKIM). Without working email, subscriber notifications fail silently.

While maintenance is on, your server requests the home page as an anonymous visitor and checks what it receives: the maintenance page, HTTP 503, the Retry-After header and the no-cache headers. A CDN still serving a cached copy is caught when the request goes through it; when the check is inconclusive, the result says so.

Writes, reads back and deletes a test value — including through the object cache (Redis/Memcached) if active. Detects object caches serving stale data, a common cause of hard-to-diagnose bugs.

Confirms that the Cache Guard must-use plugin is in place while maintenance is on. Loaded before cache plugins, it asks them not to store pages and empties the cache folders it knows. Varnish, Nginx and CDN caches are not changed.

Detects active cache plugins: WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, WP Super Cache, WP Fastest Cache, SiteGround Optimizer, WP-Optimize, Cache Enabler, Hummingbird and Breeze. A detected plugin is not an error: while maintenance is on, its page cache is emptied and it is asked not to store pages.

Checks that WP-Cron works. It runs the background comparison of key pages after a scheduled end or a countdown end; scheduled maintenance itself is applied on each visit. Warns if DISABLE_WP_CRON is set.

If Turnstile is enabled, confirms the site and secret keys are properly configured. Missing keys silently reject every protected form submission.

Summarizes the PHP and WordPress versions, HTTPS and the security keys in wp-config.php. Warns if PHP is older than 7.4, WordPress older than 6.0, the site is not served over HTTPS, or the security keys are the default ones or too short.

4-step support form right in the admin: what's the issue, what happened, how to reach you, review and send. No need to leave WordPress to ask for help.

Controls what happens to your settings if the plugin is uninstalled. By default (off): your settings, presets and stats are kept for a lossless reinstall. Only enable this if you want a full cleanup.

In Maintenance mode, the plugin returns HTTP 503 (Service Unavailable) with a Retry-After header adjustable from 1 to 168 hours (24 by default). Search engines then treat the outage as temporary. Keep maintenance short: a 503 that lasts for days can affect indexing.

Option, on by default, that adds the robots meta tag noindex, nofollow to the maintenance page, so the temporary page is not indexed.

No credit is shown by default. If you wish, a checkbox displays a small "Powered by 1001Web™" credit at the bottom of the maintenance page.

On by default: the maintenance page loads no animation hosted on another website. All fonts are bundled with the plugin; nothing is loaded from Google Fonts. Services you add yourself (Turnstile, YouTube or Vimeo video, images hosted elsewhere) still load from their own servers.

Unlike Maintenance mode (503), Coming Soon mode returns a 200 code with noindex — the correct behavior for a pre-launch site that shouldn't be indexed yet

Switch between Maintenance and Coming Soon from the General tab. On the plugin page, the status badge shows "COMING SOON" and the header "COMING SOON MODE" when this mode is active.

A complete theme designed for launches: design, typography and layout built to create anticipation. Shown at the top of the grid in Coming Soon mode

The "Notify me" form captures curious visitors' emails — build your subscriber list before you even open

When you turn off the mode, every subscriber automatically gets an email: your opening day already has an audience

Display your opening date with the 3-style countdown (free) — it disables itself automatically on expiry

Canonical meta tag automatically managed in Coming Soon mode — no conflicting SEO signals during pre-launch

The "Request assistance" form in the Diagnostic tab asks a few questions in 4 steps and attaches a technical report (versions, theme, plugins, cache, diagnostic results) that you can read before sending. No password, key or subscriber email is included. The Support tab leads to the Diagnostic first.

Shows the installed plugin version (v2.9.173). Useful for technical support.

Details your server setup: WordPress version, PHP version, web server, allocated memory and upload limit. This information is essential for troubleshooting and technical support.

Lists the practices the plugin follows: CSRF protection (WordPress nonces), input sanitization, output escaping, capability checks (manage_options), prepared database queries, and a visitor password hashed with the WordPress password functions (bcrypt since WordPress 6.8).

Export your settings to a JSON file and import them on another site. For security, the export leaves out the visitor password, the Turnstile secret key, subscriber emails, access tokens and hashed IP addresses. Import replaces the current settings; statistics are kept.

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