Selective maintenance and service-status control for WordPress. Keep unaffected parts online with up to three independent Service Zones.
Alternatives to Gatekeeper
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WordPress plugins with similar use cases
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Mloun Site Offlinev1.0.0
Temporarily close the frontend while building. Visitors see an animated Coming Soon page; only admins, allowlisted IPs or logged-in users can view it.
Modern WordPress Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon suite with responsive templates, live countdown, lead capture, and advanced access controls.
Block unwanted email registrations on your site with this email blacklist plugin. Protect your site by preventing spam sign-ups.
Enhance Elementor Pro Forms with advanced email filtering capabilities including global blocklists/whitelist and per-form controls.
Dynamic Maintenance Modev2.0.0
Enable a flexible maintenance mode with scheduling, custom page redirection, and user scope options.
Lite Maintenance Modev1.0.4
A professional and highly customizable maintenance mode plugin with a modern Figma-inspired UI and social media integration.
MSBD Maintenance Modev1.0.3
Display a clean maintenance page to visitors and non-admin users while administrators and network administrators continue browsing normally.
Frontend Gatekeeperv1.0.5
Hide the public WordPress frontend behind a secret URL parameter. Anyone with the link gets in; everyone else sees a 404.
This minimalist plugin allows administrators to activate maintenance mode with fully customizable HTML and CSS.