How to Put WordPress Into Maintenance Mode

The safest way to update a website is to make changes on a staging server and then migrate them over (which you can usually do through your host).

But if there’s something wrong with the site or it appears “broken” to visitors, the live site should be taken down and replaced by a maintenance mode page regardless of where you’re working.

There are three ways to do this:

  • Put WordPress Into Maintenance Mode Using Code
  • Put WordPress Site Into Maintenance Mode Using Plugin
  • Put WordPress Site Into Maintenance Mode Using Theme/Page Builder