I experienced most site offline plugins as bulky, intrusive and annoying. Super Simple Site Offline is as light as a feather and has no paid options. The nav item is neatly tucked away within the settings menu so it feels like it is part of Wordpress. The relative simple options makes this plugin a good choice for quick maintenance work on your website, longer under construction signalling or even forwarding entire websites to another URL.
Super Simple Site Offline contains the following features:
- Simple enable and disable button and settings page to toggle the offline mode of your entire website.
- Custom background, display text and the option to add a logo to your offline landing page.
- A redirect option for if you want to close a site and make sure all the trafic is forwarded to the new site. Of course with the proper HTTP headers so Google knows what your intentions are.
- Put a form below or in your message using shortcode to gather emailadresses or other important information so that your offline page turns in to a simple temporary landing page and you do not mis out on leads.
- Add the ip addresses of your clients or other people so they have unrestricted access to the website while the rest of the world will see an 'offline message'. [NEW!]
- Whitelist pages so that they are not affected by the offline-mode. [NEW!]