Title: QB Maintenance Mode
Author: Quiet Bolt
Published: <strong>July 25, 2025</strong>
Last modified: July 26, 2025

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# QB Maintenance Mode

 By [Quiet Bolt](https://profiles.wordpress.org/quietbolt/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/qb-maintenance-mode.1.1.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/qb-maintenance-mode/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/qb-maintenance-mode/#developers)

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

## Description

**QB Maintenance Mode** allows WordPress site admins to easily enable a customizable
maintenance mode page while the site is offline or under construction.

No coding required — just pick a style, set your title and message, upload a logo,
and go live with one click.

**Perfect for:**
 – Temporary maintenance windows – Development or redesign – Staging
environments – “Coming Soon” pages

**✨ Features:**

 * ✅ Enable/disable maintenance mode with one click
 * 🎨 Choose from **3 pre-built design styles**:
    - Style 1: Simple
    - Style 2: Modern
    - Style 3: Professional
 * 🖼 Upload or choose a **custom logo** from the Media Library
 * 📝 Set your own **page title** and **message**
 * 📱 Fully **responsive and mobile-friendly**
 * 🔒 Only **admins see the site normally** while maintenance is active
 * ⚠️ **Red admin bar alert** when maintenance mode is on
 * 🧩 Clean, modular code and WordPress Coding Standards compliant

## Screenshots

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 * Plugin Settings Page with live options
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 * Example of Style 1 (Simple)
 * [[
 * Example of Style 2 (Modern)
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 * Example of Style 3 (Professional)
 * [[
 * Admin bar indicator showing “Maintenance Mode ON”

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin folder to `/wp-content/plugins/qb-maintenance-mode/` or install
    via Plugins  Add New.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. Go to **QB Maintenance** from the admin menu.
 4. Customize your maintenance page and enable maintenance mode.

## FAQ

### Can logged-in admins still access the site?

Yes, the site remains fully accessible to logged-in administrators.

### Will this affect my SEO or users?

Maintenance mode returns a **503 Service Unavailable** header, which is safe for
SEO and tells search engines it’s temporary.

### Can I use it as a “Coming Soon” page?

Yes! Just leave maintenance mode enabled and customize your message and style.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ Quiet Bolt ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/quietbolt/)

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

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.1

 * Simplified “Page Message” field in admin settings to a plain text area.
 * Ensured HTML is automatically stripped from the message for security and consistency.

#### 1.0

 * Initial release with 3 design styles
 * Logo upload/select via media library
 * Settings page with title/message customization
 * Maintenance mode toggle
 * Red admin bar alert when active

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **10 months ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 *  PHP version ** 7.2 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/qb-maintenance-mode/)
 * Tags
 * [coming soon](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/coming-soon/)[maintenance](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/maintenance/)
   [maintenance mode](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/maintenance-mode/)
   [site down](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/site-down/)[under construction](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/under-construction/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/qb-maintenance-mode/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Quiet Bolt ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/quietbolt/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

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

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