Maintenance Redirect

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 49% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ Mauro

   1.0y ago

   The plugin is very good and is always my choice when I have to develop a new project. I have a small but important suggestion: Add a code editor to Maintenance Mode HTML. It is difficult to keep the code tidy without it.

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2. ★★★★★ crdunst

   1.6y ago

   Really easy to use, and does the job perfectly. Thanks.

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3. ★★★★★ veetihsu

   3.6y ago

   It works just fine. Definitely recommend!!

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4. ★★★★★ Anne-Mieke Bovelett

   3.7y ago

   Great plugin! I used to apply password protection via Plesk (HTTP Auth) to shield my playgrounds. But now I am in a situation where that affects what I am doing in the backend. Creating a site with Cwicly, which starts puking when you use HTTP Auth, unless you know how to whitelist your server, which I don’t. I’m not a hoster. Maintenance Redirect is the PERFECT solution. Simple to set up, no screaming “buy our pro” messages (there is no pro, as far as I know). Dear developers, tell me, how can I buy you coffee?

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5. ★★★★★ Bence Fodor

   3.8y ago

   It works well and does not have a premium offering. The link generation feature is super useful. There was an issue recently with PHP 8.x and it was fixed quite quickly. Thanks, Peter!

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6. ★★★★★ pinkeyegraphics

   3.9y ago

   This plugin is great. I’ve used various other ‘coming soon’ type plugins and this is the best. It allows me to easily show clients their website before launch, and work on a site with the public seeing a custom holding page. And it’s light, free, and well-updated. I will be using this again.

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7. ★★★★★ Manni02

   4.1y ago

   I’ve been using this plugin for years and it’s been working perfectly. I really enjoy the ability to keep working on a website while it’s out for maintenance, and let either everyone on our network to do so (useful when testing from various clients such as PCs, iPad etc) or selected testers from outside our organisation (different IP address) to access it as well. The new 1.8.1 version has a handy feature that allows to add the current IP address with a single click, which is useful as our host doesn’t give us a fixed IP, so I have to do this everytime I’m about to switch maintenance mode on. The plugin is great when initially designing a site, before it’s open to the wider public but we need to allow access to a few usewrs to test it/provide feedback, and it’s still very useful when we have to take the site off for maintenance, for example when we moved hosting recently. It also provides various ways to customise the “maintenance” message, from super quick and easy to more sophisticated. I needed support recently as there was a minor glitch on a new release, and it was explained and fixed right away. Overall, it’s a great plugin, with great support, and it’s free. Many thanks to the author for taking the time to maintain it and for sharing it with us.

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8. ★★★★★ THAWK

   4.9y ago

   This tool is great, it allows you to redirect an entire wordpress while still allowing users to login to /wp-admin. It even allows for ?paramaters in the external url, many plugins I tried strip these….

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.2.1 Fixed conflict with PublishPress Capabilities plugin’s admin notices cleanup function. Thanks to @manni02 for bringing that to my attention. 2.2.1
2. — Version 2.2 Updated minimum requirements for WP (6.1). Added built-in WordPress code editor to the HTML field. Thanks to @maurofon for the idea to do this. 2.2
3. — Version 2.1.1 Updated minimum requirements for PHP (7.4). Removed the checking of X-FORWARDED-FOR header to get the IP address for the whitelisting bypass as some over-zealous security researcher says that can be spoofed. Access throu 2.1.1
4. — Version 2.0.1 Added clarification to readme and on-screen info about the scope of what this plugin blocks (see FAQs) 2.0.1
5. — Version 2.0 Updated minimum requirements for WP (5.1) and PHP (5.6). Updated the UI with tabs for each of the sections. Changed the activation method from a select menu to a toggle switch. Split the HTML and Message storage in the d 2.0
6. — Version 1.8.3 Fixed sprintf() PHP warning. 1.8.3

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 5.3 Maintenance Redirect <= 2.0.1 - IP Spoofing to Maintenance Mode Bypass ↗
   2024-09-16 CVE-2024-45453 Use of Less Trusted Source Affects <= 2.0.1 Patched in 2.1.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

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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).

• Maintenance Mode 7K+ installs · 4.3★ · 4 shared tags A
• Maintenance 1M+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A
• Under Construction, Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags A
• Coming soon and Maintenance mode 9K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags B
• Rocket Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Page 4K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
• Maintenance & Coming Soon Redirect Animation 3K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags B

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Maintenance Redirect: 10K+ active installs, 4.9★ (24 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/jf3-maintenance-mode