Activating Maintenance Mode

Soft Maintenance

Soft maintenance disables the store for visitors but allows administrators to work on it.

To activate or deactivate run the WP-CLI command:

wp wcd soft_maintenance activate

wp wcd soft_maintenance deactivate

Click restart PHP workers in WP-CLI for the changes to take effect.

WordPress Maintenance Mode

To prevent any activity on the store, including admin logins, use the WordPress built-in maintenance mode. This creates a .maintenance file in the root of the store which activates the maintenance mode.

To activate or deactivate run:

wp maintenance-mode activate

wp maintenance-mode deactivate

For status, run:

wp maintenance-mode status

Click restart PHP workers in WP-CLI for the changes to make effect.