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StackMime Maintenance documentation

Show a maintenance or coming soon page the SEO-safe way, and check what visitors really get.

Free download coming soon Product page

Install and activate

  1. Download the zip from the product page, or search for “StackMime Maintenance” under Plugins → Add New once it is listed on WordPress.org.
  2. Install and activate it. Nothing changes for visitors yet: the page stays off until you switch it on.
  3. Open Settings → Maintenance.

Choose a mode

Maintenance is for a live site that is briefly down. It sends HTTP 503 with a Retry-After header, so search engines come back later and keep your pages.

Coming soon is for a new site before launch. It sends HTTP 200 with noindex, so the page stays out of Google.

Write the page and add contacts

Change the heading and message if you like, and add your email, WhatsApp or up to two phone numbers with labels, so people can still reach you.

The look

Choose the dark or light style, your accent colour and your logo. Without a logo, the page uses your theme’s logo. The page uses system fonts and loads nothing from other servers.

A second language

Choose a second language. Addresses under its folder, such as /ar/ or /fr/, get the translated version, right-to-left where needed, with a language switch.

Who sees the real site

Choose whether editors and admins, or admins only, see the real site while the page is on. While you’re logged in with access, you always see the real site; use Preview or a private window to see what visitors see.

Switch it on and check

  1. Click Preview to see the page exactly as visitors will.
  2. Turn on Show the page to visitors and click Save and check.
  3. The check confirms the status code a logged-out visitor really gets.

The toolbar shows a red label while the page is on, so it’s hard to forget.

Caches and CDNs

Page caches are cleared automatically when you switch on or off: LiteSpeed, WP Rocket, WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, SiteGround, Breeze, WP Fastest Cache, and Super Page Cache for Cloudflare.

If Check what visitors get shows the wrong result, a cache or CDN is answering before WordPress. Purge it there (for Cloudflare: Caching → Purge Everything).

If you're locked out

The login page always works at /wp-login.php, and robots.txt and the sitemap stay reachable. You can also deactivate the plugin by renaming its folder over FTP.

External services

None. The plugin connects to no outside service. Check what visitors get sends one request from your server to your own home page to read the status code.

Changelog

1.2.1

  • New: a Getting started guide and a one-time welcome notice after a fresh install (no redirect).

1.2.0

  • New: coming soon mode (HTTP 200 with noindex).
  • New: a redesigned settings screen, light and dark styles, accent colour and logo picker.
  • New: any second language, and a choice of who sees the real site.
  • Changed: off when the plugin is activated, with no business details pre-filled.

1.1.1

  • Visitor check with cache detection.

1.0.0

  • First release.

Still stuck?

Email us with what you tried and what you see. A person replies within one working day.

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