What happened?

  • wolfj

    (@wolfj)


    3 years, 6 months ago

    This plugin used to be great, just a simple maintenance page was all I needed with a background image. Now I start a new site, reinstall what I thought was a perfectly functional plugin only to be greeted with horrible-looking templates and forced to choose what template I want before it lets me get to the plugin settings! Another classic example of if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Glad I was able to roll back to when the plugin was decent and worked. Honestly, the dev of this plugin should take a long hard look into the mirror and see they are just destroying this plugin and its original functionality which didn’t need changing. Such a shame.

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  • Plugin Support Vytis

    (@bvytis)

    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hi @wolfj,

    Thank you for using WP Maintenance Mode plugin and for sharing your feedback with us.

    I’m sorry that recent changes don’t look helpful for your use cases.

    We have made changes in the recent version of the plugin to make the user experience better and give more flexibility in customizing the maintenance page, as you can now use Gutenberg editor or a page builder to easily customize the page and select a pre-created design or create your new custom one.

    The extra plugin (Otter) is only needed if users want to use any of the pre-designed templates that are created with the help of this plugin. In case you do not want to use the pre-design templates, you can remove the plugin and continue using WP Maintenance plugin without it.

    The last thing is that if you already had the WP Maintenance Mode plugin installed before, you can opt-out of this change after the update of the plugin and keep everything as it was before (You see Migrate button that could be clicked to switch to the new version and you also have a Rollback button after in case you want to switch back).

    Let me know if you have any other questions.

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