Title: Maintenance Countdown
Author: Phil Niehus
Published: <strong>October 21, 2015</strong>
Last modified: October 22, 2015

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Maintenance Countdown

 By [Phil Niehus](https://profiles.wordpress.org/phil-niehus/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/maintenance-countdown.1.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/maintenance-countdown/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/maintenance-countdown/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/maintenance-countdown/#installation)
 * [Development](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/maintenance-countdown/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/maintenance-countdown/)

## Description

The Maintenance Countdown plugin adds a maintenance countdown page to your wordpress
installation. This gives you the
 opportunity to tell your users what you are doing
and how long they need to wait until your site is back online. Users with the ‘edit_themes’
capability are still able to access the site when maintenance is enabled.

Features:

 * Enable/disable maintenance mode
 * Page title, headline, maintenance information and check back message are customizable
   through the dashboard
 * The end date and time for the countdown can be set through the settings page 
   on the dashboard
 * The countdown starts counting upwards if the end time is exceeded
 * Includes 2 different designs
 * Has an option to use custom css, for more information take a look at the faq

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * This is the look of the maintenance countdown page with the ‘gray out’ design
 * [[
 * This is the plugins administration menu.

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Unpack the plugin from its zip-file and upload all its files into a subdirectory
    of the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Configure the plugin through the ‘Maintenance Countdown’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

  How can i edit the custom design?

 1. Navigate to the directory of your wordpress installation
 2. Navigate to /wp-content/plugins/maintenance-countdown/styles
 3. Edit the custom.css file

  Can i change the capability a user needs for entering the site when maintenance
mode is on?

Yeah you can, just open up the ‘maintenance-countdown.php’ and change the capability
in line 34

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Maintenance Countdown” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Phil Niehus ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/phil-niehus/)

[Translate “Maintenance Countdown” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/maintenance-countdown)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/maintenance-countdown/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/maintenance-countdown/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/maintenance-countdown/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/maintenance-countdown/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.7

 * The first version of my plugin

#### 1.1.0

 * Added a second design
 * Added an option for custom designs

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.0**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.3.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.3.34**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/maintenance-countdown/)
 * Tags
 * [administration](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/administration/)[information](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/information/)
   [maintenance](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/maintenance/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/maintenance-countdown/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Phil Niehus ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/phil-niehus/)

## Support

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