Avada Maintenance Mode

Last Update: February 27, 2026

The Avada Maintenance Mode option is an integrated way to hide your site from public view while you are building or updating, removing the need for another third-party WordPress plugin. Combined with the ability to customise your Coming Soon or Maintenance page, this feature is very handy indeed. Read on to discover all there is to know about this feature, and watch the video below for a visual overview.

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Enabling Avada Maintenance Mode

You can find Maintenance Mode on the WordPress sidebar under Avada > Maintenance > Maintenance Mode, or from the Avada Dashboard at Maintenance > Maintenance Mode

Avada Maintenance Mode

Once you enable either Maintenance or Coming Soon mode, you will see a range of options to control what users see, and who can access the site, etc.

Maintenance Options

Enabling Maintenance Mode via the Avada Setup Wizard

If you run the Avada Setup Wizard, you will also find an option to activate the Maintenance Mode as part of the website setup. If you import an Avada prebuilt site, the option is on the last page when you are completing the setup, and if you are setting up a new site, you will find Maintenance Mode under “Features To Activate”, on the content page.

Maintenance Mode Active in Wizard Prebuilt
Maintenance Mode Active in Wizard

Maintenance Mode Page Template

Basically, you turn it on and set a template to display when a user visits the site. There is a default template, but this is a very basic page that just shows that the site is in Maintenance Mode or Coming Soon.

For full control of your Maintenance Mode, however, you can save any Avada Builder layout as a page template into the Avada Library, and these templates can then be selected for your Maintenance Mode/Coming Soon page.

These templates can have any content/design you wish and might incorporate an Avada Form, a background image, or any other content you wish to display. There are also a number of prebuilt templates you can use for quick implementation, at Avada Studio > Templates > Maintenance. Below is an example of an Avada Studio Coming Soon template.

When you are finished with your site maintenance or your site is ready to go live, simply turn off Maintenance Mode, and your site will be publicly accessible.

Maintenance Mode - Coming Soon Template

Maintenance Mode Options

Here are the full options for the Maintenance and Coming Soon Modes.

  • Mode – Set your site to Maintenance Mode to take it offline temporarily (status code 503), or to Coming Soon mode (status code 200), taking it offline until it is ready to be launched.

  • URL Redirect – If set, this option will redirect users without access to the URL given. Enter with protocol (e.g. https://).

  • Page Template – Select an Avada Library template for the Maintenance or Coming Soon page. To use your own, create a page in Avada Builder and save it in the Library as a Page Template.

  • User Role For Access – Select the user roles that should be able to access the site. NOTE: Administrators will always have access.

  • Exclude – Exclude parts of your site like feed, pages, or archives from Maintenance or Coming Soon mode. Add one slug per line.

  • Page Title HTML Tag – This will also be used in the default page template. Leave empty for default title.

  • Robots Meta Tag – Decide whether the Maintenance or Coming Soon page should get indexed by search engines. Choose from Noindex/Nofollow or Index/Follow.

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