Maintenance

Show visitors a holding page while you work on the site.

Setting	Default	What it does
Turn on maintenance mode	Off	Visitors see the maintenance page instead of the site.
Title	“We’ll be back soon”	Main heading; also the browser tab title.
Subtitle	“We’re doing some scheduled maintenance.”	A short line under the title.
Body	—	Optional longer text (expected return, contact). Line breaks kept; basic HTML allowed.
Background colour	#1e1e1e	Page background. With an image it becomes a tint over the image.
Background image (Pro)	—	Covers the whole page behind the text.
Text colour	#ffffff	Colour of the title, subtitle and body.

Who sees what

• Logged-out visitors and logged-in users who can’t edit content (e.g. customers) get the maintenance page, sent with a 503 status and a Retry-After header — search engines come back later instead of dropping your pages.
• Anyone who can edit posts (contributors and up, shop managers) sees the site normally, with a red Maintenance mode badge in the toolbar.
• The admin, the login screen, the REST API, AJAX and cron keep working.

Preview

Preview the maintenance page (bottom of the card) opens /?airy-maintenance-preview=1. It works for administrators at any time, even while maintenance mode is off. Save first.