Title: Smart Maintenance Mode
Author: brijeshk89
Published: <strong>April 21, 2014</strong>
Last modified: April 16, 2025

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# Smart Maintenance Mode

 By [brijeshk89](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brijeshk89/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/smart-maintenance-mode.1.5.3.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-maintenance-mode/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-maintenance-mode/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-maintenance-mode/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-maintenance-mode/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-maintenance-mode/)

## Description

Smart Maintenance Mode is a plugin which allows you to set your site to maintenance
mode so that your readers see the Coming Soon page while you can see the actual 
development of your site. You can create ranges and define the IP range which will
see the actual site using Smart Maintenance Mode.

Features in Smart Maintenance Mode include:

 * Enable/Disable Maintenance Mode
 * Add/Remove Custom HTML content
 * Add/Remove a Countdown to the time when your site will be live
 * Add/Remove custom messages for Maintenance Mode page
 * Add/Remove custom images for Maintenance Mode page
 * Allow User roles to access actual site when Maintenance Mode is enabled
 * Allow your IP to access actual site when Maintenance Mode is enabled
 * Create IP ranges
 * Delete IP ranges
 * Enable/Disable IP ranges
 * Completely FREE
 * Licensed under GNU GPL version 3
 * Safe & Secure

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Add a Countdown to the time when your site will be live
 * [[
 * Admin panel options to manage Smart Maintenance mode
 * [[
 * Sample Maintenance Mode page (Can be customized)

## Installation

Upload the Smart Maintenance Mode plugin to your blog, Activate it.
 That’s it. 
You’re done!

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Perfecto](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfecto-221/)󠁿

 [davidfx](https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidfx/) May 19, 2020

Funciona de maravilla. Muy bien. Simple y efectiva.

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### 󠀁[did work nice for me](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/did-work-nice-for-me/)󠁿

 [spala](https://profiles.wordpress.org/spala/) December 11, 2019

was looking for me role based thing and did work perfectly in my case thnks

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### 󠀁[Errors and IP address not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-and-ip-address-not-working/)󠁿

 [GusSalvador](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gussalvador/) November 26, 2019 1 
reply

Looks nice but doesn’t work as advertised. undefined index: disable_smm in /var/
www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/smart-maintenance-mode/smart-maintenance-mode.php
on line 670

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### 󠀁[Will Indefintley Break Your Website](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-indefintley-break-your-website/)󠁿

 [baddjuju](https://profiles.wordpress.org/baddjuju/) September 24, 2019 1 reply

This plugin doesn’t work. Simply disabling the plugin won’t help. Even after you
uninstall this plugin your website will be broken forever. Do a backup before installing.
Probably the worst plugin ever.

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### 󠀁[Currently broken!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/currently-broken-4/)󠁿

 [ngearing](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ngearing/) June 13, 2017

When saving settings get this error: Call to undefined function mysql_real_escape_string()

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### 󠀁[Does exactly what it says on the tin 😉](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-exactly-what-it-says-on-the-tin-64/)󠁿

 [Patrick Whitty-Clarke](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zerodegreeburn/) September
3, 2016

Great plugin. One improvement suggestion: Make sure the labels match up to the checkboxes
when selecting a user role, so you can click the label and the checkbox checks. 
You just need to wrap the text inside a [label for=”role_administrator”] html tag
🙂

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## Contributors & Developers

“Smart Maintenance Mode” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ brijeshk89 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brijeshk89/)

[Translate “Smart Maintenance Mode” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/smart-maintenance-mode)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smart-maintenance-mode/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/smart-maintenance-mode/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/smart-maintenance-mode/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/smart-maintenance-mode/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.5.3

 * Security Fix.

#### 1.5.2

 * Security Fix for Multisite setup. Thanks to WPScan Security team for reporting.

#### 1.5.1

 * [Improvement] Flush Cache after saving settings

#### 1.5

 * Security Fix for Multisite setup. Thanks to WPScan Security team for reporting.
 * Tested upto WordPress 6.7.x

#### 1.4.4

 * Added support for translations

#### 1.4.3

 * Fixed compatibility issue with PHP 7

#### 1.4.2

 * Now supports WordPress 4.2.2
 * Added Settings link on Plugins page itself

#### 1.4.1

 * Compatible with WordPress 4.0
 * Fixed the issue that caused error while adding IP range when there was whitespace
   in Start IP or End IP

#### 1.4

 * Added option to add Countdown to the time when your site will be live

#### 1.3.1

 * Minor UI improvements

#### 1.3

 * Added option to Add/Remove custom HTML content
 * Fixed issue causing the Heading/Sub-Heading to break when HTML tags were used

#### 1.2

 * Added option for admin to choose User roles who can see the actual site even 
   when Maintenance mode is enabled

#### 1.1

 * Replaced the Enable/Disable Maintenance Mode checkbox with radio button
 * Addded option to revert to default heading, sub heading
 * Added option to delete the custom maintenance mode image

#### 1.0

 * Set Maintenance Mode
 * Choose custom messages for Maintenance Mode page
 * Choose custom images for Maintenance Mode page
 * Allow your IP to access actual site
 * Disable Maintenance Mode
 * Create IP ranges
 * Delete IP ranges
 * Enable/Disable IP ranges
 * Completely FREE
 * Licensed under GNU GPL version 3
 * Safe & Secure

## Meta

 *  Version **1.5.3**
 *  Last updated **1 year ago**
 *  Active installations **1,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 * Tags
 * [allow ip](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/allow-ip/)[customize](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/customize/)
   [ip](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ip/)[maintenance mode](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/maintenance-mode/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-maintenance-mode/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.2 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  7 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-maintenance-mode/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-maintenance-mode/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  1 3-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-maintenance-mode/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-maintenance-mode/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  6 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-maintenance-mode/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ brijeshk89 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brijeshk89/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-maintenance-mode/)

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