Create Stunning Maintenance Mode Site With Elementor In 5 Minutes

Maintenance plays a very essential part in our day to day life. We maintain our electronics and our gadgets to ensure that they work correctly. But what about our website?  

We all need to make some changes to our website from time to time by putting our website in maintenance mode. Keeping a well-maintained website helps in engaging visitors and thus plays an essential part in our everyday business activity.

So why is it important to maintain your website? Think like this, if your website stops working, the visitors on your site won’t be able to read your blogs, download your resources, or make purchases, which will directly harm your business professionally.

Using maintenance mode is ideal for situations where some business maintenance may include:

• Testing Plugins
• Bug fixes
• Switching WordPress Themes
• Or, some minor tweaks in the design 

Whatever the reason may be for website maintenance, you will need to do it under the maintenance mode when performing those changes.

Key Takeaways

• Learn how to create a professional-looking Maintenance Mode page using Elementor templates.
• Explore the differences between Maintenance Mode and Coming Soon in Elementor.
• Discover how to keep your website SEO-friendly even during maintenance using the correct HTTP response codes.
• Read step-by-step instructions to customize and publish a maintenance page without needing any coding.
• Find out how to allow specific users (like admins) to access the website while others see the maintenance page.

How to Set Up Different Modes In Elementor

Although it is extremely easy to put a website in Maintenance mode with Elementor, it also provides some other advantages and options. When setting your site for maintenance, Elementor gives you two options to choose from: Maintenance Mode and Coming Soon.

Maintenance Mode: It will make your site tell search engines that your site is temporarily down for maintenance. It sends a temporary maintenance response (HTTP 503). This way, search engines know to come back a short time later to check again if the site is already online.

Coming Soon – Setting mode to Coming Soon, on the other hand, makes your site tell search engines everything is working as normal, and they can index the website as usual. This is done by returning a response of HTTP 200.

In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to enable Maintenance Mode in Elementor. So, without any delay, let’s just dive into the steps that are required to create and set up the maintenance mode for our WordPress website.

How to Create a Maintenance Mode Template in Elementor

• Open the WordPress admin dashboard and navigate to Elementor Templates -> Add New

• Then select the template type and give a name to the template

• After that, click on the Create Template button.

Choose a Layout for Your Elementor Maintenance Page

As soon as you click on the Create button, it will take you to the Elementor Editor. You don’t have to create a maintenance page from scratch; you can use the templates from the Elementor Template Library with a little customization.

• Click on the gear icon on the Elementor footer panel, and then select Elementor Canvas under the Page Layout drop-down menu.

• Now, click on the Add Template button.

• This will open the Elementor Template library inside the search bar, type Maintenance. You will get a bunch of Maintenance templates. Select the template as you wish and click on Insert. For example, let’s use the template Maintenance Mode 1.

Customize Your Maintenance Page Design

Now that we have finalized the template, we can modify it according to our needs. Click on the heading section to change the heading. We can also change the countdown element. Simply select the countdown element and make the desired changes.

Once you are done with the changes, click on the Publish Button.

Activate Maintenance Mode in Elementor Settings

Go to WordPress dashboard, navigate to Elementor>> Tools>> Maintenance Mode

Under the Maintenance Mode tab, you will see some setting options

1. Select Maintenance Mode from the first drop-down menu. Or you can also select Coming Soon mode.
2. Under Who Can Access, select Logged In to allow anyone who logs into your site to not see the maintenance mode template, or choose Custom to define the user roles who can bypass maintenance mode
3. Next, choose the template that you have created.
4. Once you are done, click on the Save button, and you are all set.

The maintenance mode is now activated. You will see a red button on the top of the WordPress bar with the text: Maintenance Mode ON.

To see if it works, just log out of your website and visit the frontend. After you are done with the changes to your site, don’t forget to switch it off.

FAQs on Maintenance Mode in Elementor