How to Put WordPress in Maintenance Mode?

WordPress is a powerful and popular open-source platform for building websites that too without writing long codes. It is easy to use and build websites within minutes.

Sometimes website owners want to make some changes to their website, in this situation, they turn on the maintenance mode of the website. The maintenance mode is visible to the users or website audience while the administrators can access the backend to make the changes.

There are two ways to enable maintenance mode in WordPress:

Using Maintenance Plugin

In this approach, we will be using the Maintenance plugin that is provided by the WordPress. That will help you to set the WordPress into Maintenance mode.

Step-by-Step Process To Put Maintenance Mode On Your Website With Plugins

Step 1: Login to your WordPress account.

Step 2: Open your WordPress website dashboard.

Step 3: Find "Plugins" button on the side panel on the left side on the webpage

Step 4: Then click on Add a New Plugin

Step 5: In the search bar on the top right side write Maintenance

Step 6: Click on Install Now > Activate

Step 7: Then click on Plugins > Installed Plugins , check if it is properly installed and activated

Step 8: Find "Maintenance" button on the side panel on the left side on the webpage

Step 9: In the plugin dashboard, Click on the toggle button to turn maintenance mode On or Off

Step 10: Now, you can perform changes on website as per your requirement

Step 11: Make sure to click on Save Changes

Example:

Output:

Using the custom code

In this approach, we will be using the custom code. That will help you to set the WordPress into Maintenance mode.

Step-by-Step Process To Put Maintenance Mode On Your Website using custom code

Step 1: Login to your wordpress account

Step 2: Open your wordpress website dashboard

Step 3: Find "Appearance" button on the side panel on the left side on the webpage

Step 4: Then click on Theme Editor

Step 5: Click on function.php , it is located on the right panel of the webpage

Step 6: Copy and paste the code below on the 1st line of the php code.

<?php
    // code
  function wpmaintenance_mode() {
    if (!current_user_can('edit_themes') && !is_user_logged_in()) {
        wp_die('Under Maintenance. Website under planned maintenance. Please try back later.');
    }
}
add_action('get_header', 'wpmaintenance_mode');
?>

Step 7: Scroll down and Click on Upload Files