Planned Outage for Block Themes

Planned Outage for Block Themes is a lightweight plugin that enables maintenance mode for WordPress block themes. When enabled, logged-out visitors see your custom maintenance template while logged-in users can browse the site normally.

Features:

• Uses native block theme templates
• Create maintenance pages in the Site Editor or as theme files
• Schedule outage windows with a start and end time — maintenance turns on and off automatically
• Logged-in users bypass maintenance mode
• Configurable expected duration (Retry-After header); during a scheduled window the header reflects the time remaining automatically
• Pre-launch mode for sites that aren’t live yet
• Optional search engine bot access during maintenance
• Bypass link to let non-logged-in users preview the site during maintenance
• Admin bar indicator when maintenance mode is active
• Duration warning after 3 days of maintenance (except in pre-launch mode)
• Returns proper 503 status code for SEO
• Cache plugin detection with admin warning and automatic cache flushing

Requirements:

• WordPress 6.6 or higher
• A block theme (like Twenty Twenty-Five)