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Mloun Site Offline

Mloun Site Offline

By Mloun
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Description

Mloun Site Offline lets you take a WordPress site offline while you build or maintain it, without touching the theme.

Features

  • Maintenance mode — one switch closes the frontend for everyone except authorized visitors.
  • 3 full-screen particle backgrounds — choose between Particle Ring, Block Drift, and ASCII Rain. All are dependency-free Canvas 2D animations.
  • Coming Soon title — built-in, translatable, editable.
  • Live countdown — set a launch datetime and show a Days/Hours/Minutes/Seconds timer.
  • Contact info — show email, phone, and address on the offline page.
  • Who can bypass — logged-in users by capability, or an IP allowlist (supports CIDR).
  • SEO safe — returns 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable + noindex by default (switchable to 200), and sends no-cache headers so CDNs (Cloudflare / LiteSpeed) never cache the offline page.
  • Excluded paths — always allow login, admin, REST API, Ajax and cron; add your own paths (e.g. payment webhooks).
  • Multilingual — fully translatable via the standard WordPress text domain.

Who should use it

Agencies and developers building B2B / WooCommerce sites (Woodmart, Elementor) who need a polished “Coming Soon” screen instead of a half-built homepage.

Screenshots

Settings screen, General section: the maintenance mode switch, background effect, title, message, launch datetime and contact details.
Settings screen, General section: the maintenance mode switch, background effect, title, message, launch datetime and contact details.
Settings screen, access rules: who can see the real site (bypass capability, IP allowlist, excluded paths) and the SEO response mode.
Settings screen, access rules: who can see the real site (bypass capability, IP allowlist, excluded paths) and the SEO response mode.
Offline page with the Particle Ring background, live launch countdown and contact cards.
Offline page with the Particle Ring background, live launch countdown and contact cards.
Offline page with the ASCII Rain background, live launch countdown and contact cards.
Offline page with the ASCII Rain background, live launch countdown and contact cards.
Offline page with the Block Drift background, live launch countdown and contact cards.
Offline page with the Block Drift background, live launch countdown and contact cards.

Installation

  1. Upload the mloun-site-offline folder to /wp-content/plugins/.
  2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen.
  3. Go to Settings Site Offline to configure the background, text, countdown and contacts.
  4. Enable Maintenance mode to take the site offline.

FAQ

Will search engines penalize my site?

No. By default the offline page returns 503 with noindex, telling crawlers the site is temporarily unavailable and to come back later.

Does it work with Cloudflare / LiteSpeed?

Yes. The plugin sends no-cache headers so edge caches do not serve a stale offline page. For extra safety, set a page rule / Edge Cache TTL of 0 on the homepage while building.

How do I let a client or team member see the real site?

Add their IP address to the IP allowlist (Settings Site Offline Who can see the real site), or log in with an account that has the chosen capability (e.g. Administrator). They will then see the real site while everyone else sees the Coming Soon page.

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“Mloun Site Offline” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.0.0

  • Initial release: maintenance mode, 3 particle backgrounds, countdown, contact info, IP allowlist bypass, SEO-safe 503.

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