A secure maintenance, coming-soon, and private construction mode with administrator bypass and correct HTTP behavior.
- Price
- Free. No premium tier.
- Current release
- 2.2.0
- Support
- Manuals, guides, and registered community forum
See the product at work
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Capabilities, not locked upgrades
The complete feature set ships in the free download.
- Short maintenance profile with HTTP 503 and configurable Retry-After
- Prelaunch profile with a meaningful HTTP 200 homepage and real 404s elsewhere
- Private staging protection for the front end, REST, feeds, oEmbed, and XML-RPC
- Limited-operation profile with a banner and optional commerce, forms, and comment restrictions
- Schedules, backing pages, role and IP allowlists, trusted proxies, and webhook exclusions
- Shared-password sessions, one-time invite links, and emergency bypass
- Combined IP, email, and site-wide login throttling
- Managed draft pages excluded from WordPress sitemaps
- Configurable retention and daily cleanup
- WordPress privacy export and erase callbacks
- Cache/CDN headers, diagnostics, and expected response-code guidance
- Bounded activity logging without retaining raw client IP addresses
Before installation
This product follows normal WordPress permissions and APIs. Optional integrations fail gracefully when their companion plugin is absent.
Requirements
- WordPress and PHP versions listed in the included readme
- An administrator account for installation and setup
- A current backup before changing a production site
Set it up
- Upload the ZIP under Plugins > Add Plugin and activate it.
- Review its settings before publishing ministry content.
- Test with sample content or on staging before changing a live site.
- Keep the matching manual and community support links nearby.
Version history
This current release is the starting point for public release notes. Future updates will be added here with compatibility notes and a concise change summary.
Version 2.2.0
Starting release record. This is the current package distributed by DIY Church Website and the baseline for all release notes going forward.
- Short maintenance profile with HTTP 503 and configurable Retry-After
- Prelaunch profile with a meaningful HTTP 200 homepage and real 404s elsewhere
- Private staging protection for the front end, REST, feeds, oEmbed, and XML-RPC
- Limited-operation profile with a banner and optional commerce, forms, and comment restrictions
Download, read, then test.
Keep a current backup and use staging for important changes. Start with the manual and guides; search the forum before opening a registered support topic.