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Simple Maintenance

Simple Maintenance

By Noor Alam
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Description

Simple Maintenance plugin can be easily installed to show a maintenance mode page. It allows you to maintain your site on the back end by displaying a temporary maintenance page on the front end.

The plugin does not require any additional configuration or setup. All you need to do is activate it and maintenance mode will be automatically enabled. It is very lightweight yet powerful. It uses the HTML5 layout which makes the maintenance mode page viewable from a mobile device.

Features

  • Clean HTML and CSS layout
  • Responsive maintenance mode page
  • No customizations required
  • Easier to manage as the maintenance mode can be turned on by activating the plugin
  • Notify the search engine crawler that the site is down for a limited period of time

For more information please check the WordPress Maintenance Mode Plugin documentation page

Screenshots

  • Maintenance Mode Page

Installation

  1. Go to the Add New plugins screen in your WordPress Dashboard
  2. Click the upload tab
  3. Browse for the plugin file (simple-maintenance.zip) on your computer
  4. Click “Install Now” and then hit the activate button

FAQ

Can this plugin be used to display a simple maintenance mode page?

Yes.

Reviews

Confused on how to use it, but I found out

July 11, 2025
For anyone still using this, just know I was so confused as I couldn’t find out the settings for this plugin, so I didn’t know how to activate it. Well, it’s so simple that there is no settings page. Upon activating the plugin, your site will be in maintenance mode. To turn it off, deactivate the plugin.I wish the author would have at least said to do that somewhere, but completely left that information out. I only found out because someone on his site asked and he answered there.Love the plugin, though. So simple and it works.

Perfect

November 25, 2024
Just what I have been looking for. Simple, does the job.

Easy and simple

November 3, 2023
I spent an hour looking for an easy way to put a new project in maintenance mode. Seems like Wordpress should have that built in. Simple Maintenance was the answer for what I was looking for. Took two minutes to install and active. Easy!

Just what I was looking for

March 26, 2019
A simple maintenance page plugin with no b/s or pestering to upgrade to pro [why would you need to do that]. Thanks

Simple, light, the best.

November 5, 2018
You don’t need any fancy-heavy maintenance page plugin when you can use this simple and ultra light plugin. It is also easy to customize if you want, but the default is more than enough. Great and free plugin. No ads.
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Contributors & Developers

“Simple Maintenance” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Simple Maintenance” has been translated into 7 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

1.0.4

  • WordPress 6.3 compatibility update.

1.0.3

  • Added translation option
  • Simple Maintenance is now compatible with WordPress 4.4

1.0.2

  • Simple Maintenance is now compatible with WordPress 4.3

1.0.1

  • First commit

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4.7 out of 5 stars.

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