Easy Maintenance Setup
Quickly add a maintenance page to your blog or website with customizable colors, texts, and backgrounds.
Exclusive Access for Admins
Only registered users with admin rights can view the front end, ensuring privacy during maintenance.
Countdown and Subscription
Engage visitors with a countdown timer and collect their emails through a subscription form.
Compatibility with WordPress Multisite
Each blog in the network can have its own maintenance settings, making it perfect for multisite installs.
Version 2.6.10 (2024-02-28)
Fixes
Version 2.6.9 (2023-12-22)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed compatibility issue with WP 6.4
- Fixed broken templates layout issue on the Safari browser
- Enhanced security
- Fixed compatibility issue with WP-Optimize
Version 2.6.8 (2023-06-07)
- Fix the Save button Module tab not working
- Codebase updates
Version 2.6.7 (2023-04-01)
- Bug fix: Addressed an unnecessary ‘no maintenance page’ error occurrence.
Version 2.6.6 (2023-03-31)
- Remove error notice for users that use an overriding custom template
- Update dependencies
Version 2.6.5 (2023-03-01)
Update dependencies
Version 2.6.4 (2023-02-24)
- Add the option to manage maintenance status on all sites from the network dashboard
- Update dependencies
Version 2.6.3 (2023-02-06)
Version 2.6.2 (2022-12-16)
- Add the option in the wizard to skip importing a template and installing Otter
- Improve the quality of the template screenshots
- Fix the template overriding issue
Version 2.6.1 (2022-11-03)
- Add a notice to announce the rebrand of the plugin
- Adds Landing pages templates
- Adds more Coming soon and Maintenance mode templates
- Rebrand the plugin into LightStart
Version 2.5.4 (2022-10-10)
- Fix subscribers entry export for legacy forms.
- Fix PHP notice showing up on edge cases new installs.
Version 2.5.3 (2022-09-28)
- Fix wrong template loaded when the current post template is empty.
Version 2.5.2 (2022-09-27)
- Fix maintenance mode issue for previously logged users #321
- Allow comments into exclude textarea so that you can comment on the IP addresses for location, props @joostdekeijzer
- Fix PHP notice errors on specific scenarios #324
- Fix Otter for saving subscriber entry
Version 2.5.1 (2022-09-08)
- Fixes a bug which was causing error on some instances
- New Feature: Adds compatibility with Block Editor or any page builder for building the maintenance mode page.
- New Feature: Adds coming soon and maintenance mode starting templates.
Version 2.4.7 (2022-08-08)
Fixes
- Fix login form display
- Fix email collecting by the bot
- Improve accessibility of the maintenance page thanks to @SophieWeb
Version 2.4.6 (2022-06-15)
- Improve data sanitizations for custom css and contact module
Version 2.4.5 (2022-06-15)
- Harden security and improve release process
Version 2.4.4 (2022-02-10)
Update dependencies
Version 2.4.3 (2022-01-27)
- Change ownership to Themeisle
2.4.2 (18/01/2022)
- Misc: 900 000 Active Installs Celebrations!
- Misc: WordPress 5.9 compatibility
- Fix: jQuery UI CSS theme reference from jQuery CDN
- Misc: Text fixes in the dashboard
2.4.1 (20/07/2021)
- Misc: WordPress 5.8 compatibility
2.4.0 (13/05/2021)
- Design: add “Custom CSS” setting; Finally! 🙂
- Design: add “Footer links” color setting
- Design: add a list of available shortcodes under the “Text” editor
- Bot: make {visitor_name} placeholder work in all messages after the visitor types his name
- Misc: add [embed] shortcode for responsive video embeds; Compatible with YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion.
- Misc: make the exclude mechanism work with Cyrillic characters
- Misc: add
wpmm_maintenance_template
filter; It works the same way as the wpmm_contact_template
filter, but for the maintenance template.
- Misc: now you can override the
contact
email template too; Check /views/contact.php
for more details.
- Misc: better compatibility with translation plugins like Loco Translate
- Misc: the image uploaders (from the dashboard) are now translatable
- Misc: improve uninstall routine
- Misc: add
wpmm_delete_cache
action; It is called after each setting change.
- Misc: add support for cache plugins like WP Rocket, WP Fastest Cache, Endurance Page Cache, Swift Performance Lite, Cache Enabler, SG Optimizer, LiteSpeed Cache, Nginx Helper;
- Misc: remove
wpmm_count_where
helper function
- Misc: code improvements
2.3.0 (07/12/2020)
- Modules: add support for Google Analytics 4 measurement ID
- Design: enable media buttons on wp_editor (now you can add images from the editor)
- Bot: fix translation issue
- Misc: add filters for capabilities
wpmm_settings_capability
, wpmm_subscribers_capability
, and wpmm_all_actions_capability
(the last one can be used to override all capabilities)
- Misc: fix [loginform] shortcode redirect attribute
- Misc: a few CSS & Javascript improvements
- Misc: bump “Tested up to” version to 5.6
2.2.4 (20/05/2019)
- bump “Tested up to” to 5.2.0
- fix typo in Italian translation (it_IT)
- Bot: add a note about how you can export the list of subscribers #195
- Bot: add client-side sanitization to the input fields #176
2.2.3 (20/02/2019)
- bump “Tested up to” version to 5.1.0
- replace “wpmu_new_blog” action with “wp_initialize_site” action for WP 5.1.0 users because the first one is deprecated in the new version
- small improvement to “check_exclude” method from “WP_Maintenance_Mode” class
2.2.2 (27/11/2018)
- Google Analytics module: migrate from analytics.js to gtag.js + add ip anonymization #178
- GDPR module: accept links inside texareas + add policy link target #188
- add charset meta tag #200
- fix PHP Notice: Undefined index: HTTP_USER_AGENT
- add plural and single form translation for subscribers number (settings page)
Earlier versions
For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the full changelog.