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Maintenance Switch

by Fugu Design on WordPress.org

Customize easily and switch in one-click to (native) maintenance mode from your backend or frontend.

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A button is added to the admin bar for simple toggling in maintenance mode.

A button is added to the admin bar for simple toggling in maintenance mode.

One-click maintenance mode

This plugin adds a button to the admin bar for toggling the builtin maintenance mode.

Core maintenance mode

A .maintenance file is generated and copied to the WordPress installation folder when turning on the maintenance mode.
A maintenance.php file is generated and added to the wp-content folder for custom HTML code.

Your custom maintenance page will also be active during the core, plugins and themes updates.

Special Features

  • set which roles can switch the maintenance mode

  • set which roles can bypass the maintenance mode on the frontend

  • set the entire HTML code used for the maintenance page

  • preview the maintenance page before saving

  • enable the theme file support, so you can create in each your themes a maintenance.php file to customize the maintenance page

  • restore all default settings

  • restore default HTML code

  • create/delete the maintenance file in the active WP theme

Translations

  • English – default, always included
  • French
Active installations600+
Weekly downloads
149+170.91%
Version1.7.1
Last updated12/18/2025
WordPress version3.5
Tested up to6.9
PHP version8.3
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