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Simple WP Maintenance Mode

by lucascaires · Admin & Utilities

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This tiny plugin actives the maintenance mode with standard messages from WordPress.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 82/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins

2K+

Active installs

≈2.9K estimated

127.2K

Total downloads

since 2015

4.27★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 6 reviews

+24%

602

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

Removal-risk signals

53/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.4.21.

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.

42 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 2/100
WP compatibility 19/100
Rating quality 58/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2243 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+24% vs prior 30d
22Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

602

now · peak 1.4K

57630d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Simple WP Maintenanc · #5014 you Maintenance Work · #51864 Maintenance · #58 Under Construction, · #1717

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

5Stars · Aug 26

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.

288per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “2K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
2K–3K ≈2.9K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-12-05 · 1,427 observations

2KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 6 reviews

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5★
6 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
6.1y ago
Added
2015-05-25 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
5.4.21
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ kozakr
    4.8y ago

    It’s perfect.

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  2. ★★★★★ hnhn2
    5.3y ago

    Works fine (just use a private browser window to test). Job done with 10 lines of code, no clutter. Thanks.

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  3. ★★★★★ Andre
    5.8y ago

    Plugin is installed and activated, yet I can see the full website as an anonymous user, completely logged out, even on Tor browser, on all devices and different networks.

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  4. ★★★★★ bsusala
    6.1y ago

    WTF, function precedes form. Way to go! This topic was modified 6 years ago by bsusala.

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  5. ★★★★★ kenyer79
    6.3y ago

    You know exactly as much as you need to use it for. No unnecessary code

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  6. ★★★★★ Pooya Behravesh
    6.4y ago

    Developers always get away from main purpose! Actually this is that plugin that a person who wants maintenance mode needs. This topic was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by Pooya Behravesh.

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  7. ★★★★★ lucascaires
    10.4y ago

    Simple, just a few lines of server side code, using standard message from your WP default language.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 0.1 First release of the plugin 0.1

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ 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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2023-05-28 3K+ → 2K+ down after 10 days in tier
  2. 2023-05-18 2K+ → 3K+ up after 6 days in tier
  3. 2023-05-12 3K+ → 2K+ down

Competes with

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