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SiteHold – Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode

SiteHold – Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode

By ruhulamin77777
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Description

SiteHold shows visitors a clean, responsive Coming Soon or Maintenance page while you build or fix your site. Administrators keep seeing the real site.

Features

  • Three modes: Off, Coming Soon (HTTP 200) and Maintenance (HTTP 503 + Retry-After, SEO safe)
  • One-click switch in the admin top bar, with a coloured status indicator
  • Countdown timer with optional automatic go-live
  • Logo, background image, overlay, text and accent colours
  • Separate headline and message for each mode
  • Contact button and social links (Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube)
  • Secret bypass link to share with clients — no login needed
  • Allow selected user roles and IP addresses to see the live site
  • Exclude specific pages (e.g. /privacy-policy or /landing/*)
  • Optional REST API blocking
  • Page title, meta description and noindex control
  • Preview without turning the mode on
  • Tells caching plugins not to cache the holding page
  • Translation ready, clean uninstall

Screenshots

Coming Soon page with countdown, contact button and social links.
Coming Soon page with countdown, contact button and social links.
Maintenance page (sends HTTP 503 so search engines come back later).
Maintenance page (sends HTTP 503 so search engines come back later).
One-click mode switch in the admin top bar.
One-click mode switch in the admin top bar.
Settings: choose the mode and set a countdown with automatic go-live.
Settings: choose the mode and set a countdown with automatic go-live.
Settings: role access, secret bypass link, IP whitelist and excluded pages.
Settings: role access, secret bypass link, IP whitelist and excluded pages.

Installation

  1. Upload the sitehold folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install the zip via Plugins Add New Upload Plugin.
  2. Activate the plugin.
  3. Go to Settings SiteHold, choose a mode and customise your page.
  4. Use the SiteHold item in the admin top bar to switch modes at any time.

FAQ

I enabled it but I still see my site.

You are logged in as an administrator, who always sees the live site. Open your site in a private window or use the Preview buttons.

Which mode should I use?

Use Coming Soon for a site that has not launched yet. Use Maintenance for short downtime — it sends a 503 status so search engines don’t drop your pages.

I still see the page after turning it off.

Clear your caching plugin / CDN cache.

Can I use my own template?

Yes. Use the sitehold_template filter to return the path of your own PHP template.

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Changelog

1.0.0

  • Initial release.

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