Maintenance Mode

Maintenance Mode puts your whole front end behind a holding page — a maintenance screen (HTTP 503, for temporary downtime) or a coming-soon screen (HTTP 200, for a pre-launch site) — with one switch.

Where: WP Admin → Tiger Elements → Tools → Maintenance Mode.

Two modes

• Maintenance — returns a 503 so search engines know the outage is temporary and shouldn’t de-index you.
• Coming soon — returns a normal 200, right for a site that isn’t live yet, and supports an optional launch countdown.
• Off — the default; the gate is completely inert until you choose a mode.

Your choice of design

Pick where the holding screen comes from:

1. Built-in template — a fully-styled screen with a headline, a message and (for coming-soon) a launch countdown. Sensible defaults fill in if you leave the text blank.
2. Elementor page — point it at any page you built, so you can design a fully branded holding page with the normal builder.

Safe by design

• Admins never get locked out — anyone with manage_options always bypasses the lock, and you can whitelist extra roles.
• The gate runs on template_redirect, which never fires for wp-login.php, wp-admin, the REST API or cron — so logins, the dashboard and background jobs keep working.
• Admins can preview the locked screen with ?tiger_maintenance_preview=1 without disabling their own bypass.
• It stays inert until you flip the mode on, so enabling the module changes nothing by itself.

Troubleshooting

I turned it on but still see the normal site.

You’re logged in as an admin (or a whitelisted role) and are bypassing the lock. Open the site in a private window, or add ?tiger_maintenance_preview=1 to see exactly what visitors get.

The countdown doesn’t show.

The countdown only renders in coming-soon mode with a valid future date set. In maintenance mode there is no countdown.

My chosen Elementor page renders blank.

Confirm the page is published and selected as the template source. If it uses widgets that depend on the full theme header/footer, prefer a self-contained design or fall back to the built-in template.