How to customize the WordPress maintenance page with WP Toolkit

Vincent Lauton

Updated June 21, 2024 00:43

kb: bug Plesk for Windows kb: fixed Plesk for Linux ABT: Group A

Applicable to:

Plesk for Linux
Plesk for Windows

Question

How to customize the WordPress maintenance page with WP Toolkit?

Answer

Maintenance mode pages can be personalized for each domain individually, and on a main template that applies to the entire server. Detailed information can be found in: Customizing the maintenance page | Plesk Obsidian documentation.

One website

Log in to Plesk
Open WP Toolkit, expand the site to customize, and press the settings button next to Maintenance mode
Press Customize
Go to wp-content/maintenance and edit template.phtml
Press OK

All websites (Linux)

Note: The default (or customized) server-wide maintenance page template will only be applied to WordPress sites that have never been put into maintenance mode. To apply it to a WordPress site that has already been put into maintenance mode, select Restore Default from the Maintenance Mode configuration menu.

Connect to the server via SSH
Back up the current template:

# mv /usr/local/psa/var/modules/wp-toolkit/maintenance/template.phtml{,.orig}
Edit /usr/local/psa/var/modules/wp-toolkit/maintenance/template.phtml

# vi /usr/local/psa/var/modules/wp-toolkit/maintenance/template.phtml

All websites (Windows)

Connect to the server via RDP
Make a copy of the current template: %plesk_dir%\var\modules\wp-toolkit\maintenance\template.phtml
Edit %plesk_dir%\var\modules\wp-toolkit\maintenance\template.phtml in a text editor.