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Maintenance Mode WP Plugin

A lightweight WordPress plugin that lets developers serve their own maintenance-mode template instead of relying on generic page-builder screens. It was built for simple setup, clean control, and predictable behavior during site updates.

Role
Backend
Scope
2022 / Plugin / Personal Project
Stack
PHP, CSS3, HTML 5
custom maintenance wp plugin

Why It Exists

Most maintenance-mode plugins hand you a fixed template with a few color options. This one does the opposite: it intercepts front-end requests before the active theme renders, and serves whatever template the developer points it at, so the holding page can be a plain HTML file, a themed template, or something that shares nothing with the site’s page builder. Activation and deactivation are single-purpose actions with no settings to misconfigure, which matters for a plugin that’s usually installed in a hurry, during an actual outage or deploy.