Maintenance Notice

• by: Codevibrant

Maintenance notice plugin shows the maintenance information while performing updates on themes and plugins or fixing minor bugs on your website.

Maintenance notice is a WordPress plugin that allows you to put the maintenance notice on your website. It helps to inform the visitors that your site is in maintenance mode without showing the broken site to the users.
Additionally, it has the option to add a coming soon page for a new website with date and countdown timer settings. The maintenance notice will only be visible to the users who are  not logged in. Other users can login and continue browsing your site. Fully customization options to add social media icons, colors, preloader, countdown timer and many more.

Installing WP Maintenance Notice Plugin (Free)

Download the plugin from the WordPress directory or official website and save the "wp-maintenance-notice.zip" file. You need to login to your WordPress then,

• Go to Dashboard > Plugins > Click on Add New.
• Click on the Upload plugin button.
• Browse for the plugin you've have downloaded.
• Click on Install and Activate the plugin.

Installing Maintenance Notice Plugin (Premium)

• After purchasing Maintenace Notice Plugin from the official site and receiving the "maintenance-notice.zip" file.
• Go to Dashboard >> Plugins >> Add New.
• Click on the Upload Plugin button at the top and browse the maintenance-notice.zip file and press the Install Now button.
• After installing, make sure you activate the plugin.

• Fully customizable ( change colors, texts and backgrounds )
• Countdown timer ( remaining time )
• Shortcode option
• Login Form field
• Coming soon page
• WordPress multisite
• Responsive design
• Social media icons
• Preloader Settings
• Toggle Sidebar Option
• Features Listing features
• Background Overlay
• Background Types ( color, static image, video, gradient color, crossfade images )
• Animation Settings
• Works with any WordPress theme
• Exclude posts and pages from maintenance

Once you logged in to WordPress and activated the maintenance notice, you need to visit WP Maintenance Notice >> Dashboard page to setup maintenace notice.

The first thing you need to do  "Enable maintenance mode" to display your website as the maintenance mode. It will hide your all content of your website to the visitors.

You have option to preview the maintenance mode without enabling the mode in your website. Click on the link.

The plugin comes with preloader feature. To enable preloader and select the types of preloaders provided by the plugin you need to purchase Maintenance notice pro version. Pro Version

After enabling maintenance mode, click on the "save settings" button.

Maintenance Notice allows you to create beautiful maintenance screen to display during the downtime. Navigate to the Content Settings section. Here you'll be able to add logo, headline, messages and buttons.

• First you need to upload the logo to your maintenance screen.
• Enter the Page Title onthe box.
• To show toggle bar on the sidebar of your wesite then enable the show toggle bar. The toggle bar includes the many options to display including countdown timer, features listings, login form and social icons content.Pro Version
• Similiarly, enter the heading and description to provide message to the visitors.
• If you want to add the button showing subscribe us and its URL then you can use those option.
• The pro version provided two options to add button where you can show contact us button. Pro Version
• You can add the custom shortcode and footer copyright text. Pro Version
• Click on the "save settings" button.

Follow the step-by-step guide and build a great looking maintenance screen.

Maintenance Notice also included the countdown timer module to letting the users know when your site will be up.

Countdown Settings

• Enable the countdown clock to show in your maintenance screen.
• Here you can set countdown date upto and countdown time upto.
• You can also add popup content which will display after countdown time ends.
• Click on the "save settings" button.

Features Settings:Pro Version

You can choose to display your countdown content or display the listing of features. Hidding all the other website content.

• First enable the features listing section to show on your site.
• Add the Features Section Title on the box.
• Next, Features List Items comes with the singlelist where you can select the icons and add the title of the list.
• Click on the "save settings" button.

Background Settings allows you to style your maintenance screen using various background options.

• First you need to choose the background type including:
  • Color Background: Select the color for your background from the color picker option.
  • Static Image Background: Upload your own background image.
  • Fullpage Slider Background: Upload the more than two images to display slider background. Once you uploaded the images, choose the Slide animation type from the avaliable dropdown option. Enable the infinite loop and auto slide option. You can also set the speed and pause time to display the slider background.Pro Version
  • Video Background: To play video as a background on the maintenance screen, you can add the URL of the video.
  • Gradient Color Background: Select the first and second color to make your background gardient from color picker option.Pro Version
• Choose the Background Overlay Type and Overlay Opacity as you want.
• Click on the "save settings" button.

Here you can change the font, font size, style of text as you want on your site.

• Enabling the button will inherit all the default static styling enquequed in plugin.
• You can edit the Font Family, Variant, Text Transform, Text Decoration and Set the Font Size and Font Color of Page Title, Page Heading, Page Description, Count down and Button One.
• Button have options to change the color of Background, Border,Hover Text, and Hover Background.
• The Features listing and Footer Copyright have options to edit Font Family, Variant, Text Transform, Text Decoration and Set the Font Size and Font Color.Pro Version
• The pro version comes with two button options.
• Click on the "save settings" button.

LogIn Form Settings:

• Enable the button to show Login Form and add Form Title in the box.
• Choose the Login Form Styles from the drop down options.Pro Version
• Click on the "save settings" button.

Social Icons Settings:

• Enable the button to show Social Icons.
• Social Settings comes with the single item where you can select the icons and add the Icon url.
• Click on the "save settings" button.

Animations Settings:Pro Version

• Enable the button to show animations.
• Choose the Animation Styles and Set the Animations Delay, Duration and Iteration.
• Click on the "save settings" button.