Build Mode – Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Page

by Harish Chouhan · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 6 other plugins · 11.7K+ installs across the portfolio →

Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Made Easy – Display any page as your maintenance or coming-soon screen, no coding required.

Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.

⚠ Few reviews

Health

B 80/100

Few reviews

Active installs

200+

≈210 estimated

Momentum

+7%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: Swap “coming soon” for “503”. “coming soon” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “503” sits at #15 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.

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How scoring works →

80 Health · B

Maintenance 85/100

Rating quality 81/100

Support 70/100

80 health vs 56 average across 5,897 Admin & Utilities plugins

200+

Active installs

≈210 estimated

1.6K

Total downloads

since 2025 · 12% still active

4.2/5

Rating

5.0 on wp.org · 5 reviews

+7%

256

Downloads · 30d

category median +4%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

12%

of downloads still active

At least 200 of 1.6K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Admin & Utilities plugin keeps 0.6%, across 4,190 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Admin & Utilities plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

This plugin shipped 4 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.

Ratings · 5 reviews

Details

Version: 1.1.0
Last updated: 7mo ago
Added: 2025-10-07 · 1 yr old
Requires WP: 6.0
Tested up to: 6.9.11
Requires PHP: 7.4

Changelog ↗Support forum ↗Reviews ↗Advanced stats ↗

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

89 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Most to gain: Rating quality

Update recency 96/100

Updated 203 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 100/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.9.11, the current branch or newer

Rating quality 57/100

5.0★ over 5 reviews, smoothed to 4.18★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Search visibility

How it's tracked →

Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

Momentum

Losing ground

-0.3

Velocity

places per keyword, 28d

28%

Breadth

of keywords climbing, 28d

0.0

Acceleration

recent half vs earlier

wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.

Keyword	wp.org	On merit	wp.org move, 90 days
coming soon page your tag	#19	#17	0
lightweight coming soon	#8	#14	0
coming soon mode	#22	#19	0
quick coming soon	#15	#19	0
simple maintenance mode	#21	#18	0
under construction mode	#22	#19	down 1
coming soon your tag	Not in the top 24
maintenance mode your tag	Not in the top 24
maintenance page your tag	Not in the top 24
under construction your tag	Not in the top 24

19 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 6 listed. 13 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

What to do about it

Swap “coming soon” for “503”. “coming soon” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “503” sits at #15 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.

Daily downloads

Since 8 Oct 2025 · 390 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+7% vs prior 30d

51 Nov 2026

30150

51 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 271 · peaks are release surges

2711 Nov 2026

3001500

2711 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

801 Nov 2026

907560

801 Nov 2026

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

1.4K1 Nov 2026

2.5K1.3K0

1.4K1 Nov 2026

Release cadence

Actively maintained

from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

releases in the last 12 months

7mo ago

latest release · v1.1.0 · 12 Apr 2026

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1.0 · 12 Apr 20261.0.0 · 5 Jan 20260.2.0 · 15 Dec 20250.1.0 · 28 Nov 2025

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 81% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.1 81%

v1.0 19%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate

200–300 ≈210

Crossed into this band 33 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 200.

At the current install trend, crossing 300+ in roughly 107 days.

Install history since 7 Oct 2025

2001 Nov 2026

2001000<10 installs

2001 Nov 2026

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

✓ Low memory footprint

✓ Low page-speed impact

✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP

✓ No PHP errors

✓ No JS errors

✓ Activates cleanly

✓ No resource errors

✓ No external HTTP errors

✓ Optimized database use

✕ Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Dutch 62%

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

7 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

✓ Says what it does "Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Made Easy – Display any page as your maintenance or coming-soon screen, no c..."
✓ Has a FAQ 7 questions in the FAQ.
✓ FAQ asks real questions 7 of 7 read like questions a user would type.
! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("use cases"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
✓ Names what it works with Mentions Block editor.
✓ Headings and lists 2 headings and 2 lists.
✓ Enough to quote 1,486 characters of description.
✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "coming soon page" does not.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

2026-09-29 100+ → 200+ up after 53 days in tier
2026-08-07 70+ → 100+ up after 27 days in tier
2026-07-11 60+ → 70+ up after 14 days in tier
2026-06-27 50+ → 60+ up after 30 days in tier
2026-05-28 40+ → 50+ up after 25 days in tier
2026-05-03 30+ → 40+ up after 17 days in tier
2026-04-16 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in tier
2026-04-14 30+ → 20+ down after 8 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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Build Mode – Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Page: 200+ active installs, 5.0★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/build-mode

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