10 Best Maintenance Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Maintenance sits at #2 in the WordPress.org Coming Soon Plugins ranking. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Maintenance
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CMP
Closest matchCMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes
4.7 (326) 200,000+ active installsBeautiful Coming soon, Maintenance or Landing page on your website, packed with premium features for free.
#5 in the WordPress.org Coming Soon Plugins ranking. About a quarter of the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.4, last updated 15 days ago.
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Website Builder by SeedProd — Theme Builder, Landing Page Builder, Coming Soon Page, Maintenance Mode
4.9 (4,699) 700,000+ active installsEasy Drag & Drop Page Builder. A complete solution to create a WordPress Website, Custom Themes, Landing Pages, Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode Pages.
#1 in the WordPress.org Coming Soon Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, rated 4.9 against 4.4, last updated 14 days ago.
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LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder
4.3 (873) 400,000+ active installsEasy Drag & Drop Page Builder that adds a splash page to your site that it's perfect for a coming soon page, maintenance or landing page.
#3 in the WordPress.org Coming Soon Plugins ranking. About a third of the installs, rated 4.3 against 4.4, last updated 17 days ago.
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4.8 (316) 10,000+ active installsNifty Coming Soon & Maintenance Page creates awesome Coming Soon & Maintenance Pages.
#7 in the WordPress.org Coming Soon Plugins ranking. 10,000+ installs against 1 million+, rated 4.8 against 4.4, last updated 13 days ago.
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4.7 (3) 7,000+ active installsA Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode plugin to manage your site's availability with responsive templates and SEO-friendly features.
#9 in the WordPress.org Coming Soon Plugins ranking. 7,000+ installs against 1 million+, last updated 28 days ago.
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Ultimate Coming Soon Page, Maintenance Mode & Under Construction – Gutenberg Block Builder & Landing Page
4.5 (6) 9,000+ active installsThe Ultimate Coming Soon Page, Maintenance Mode & Under Construction plugin — powered by the Gutenberg Block Builder. Create stunning Landing Page …
#10 in the WordPress.org Coming Soon Plugins ranking. 9,000+ installs against 1 million+, last updated July 21, 2026.
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4.2 (83) 9,000+ active installsComing soon and Maintenance mode plugin is an awesome tool to show your website visitors that you are working on your website for making it better.
#8 in the WordPress.org Coming Soon Plugins ranking. 9,000+ installs against 1 million+, rated 4.2 against 4.4, last updated February 2, 2026.
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Under Construction, Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode
Paid version available4.6 (46) 10,000+ active installsUnder Construction is a simple plugin for setting up Under Construction, Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode using WordPress Customizer.
Shares the coming soon, maintenance, maintenance mode tags on WordPress.org. 10,000+ installs against 1 million+, last updated July 16, 2026.
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Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk
4.8 (3,211) 200,000+ active installsTop-rated antispam for contact forms, comments, WooCommerce, eCommerce, and login. No CAPTCHAs, no friction, just background anti spam protection.
About a quarter of the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.4, last updated 5 days ago.
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MailPoet
Paid version availableMailPoet – Newsletters, Email Marketing, and Automation
4.4 (1,432) 500,000+ active installsSend beautiful newsletters from WordPress. Collect subscribers with signup forms, automate your emails for WooCommerce, blog post notifications & more
About half the installs, last updated 6 days ago.
Maintenance against each of them
Head to head on installs, ratings, reviews and updates. Each measure names its own leader; there is no overall winner.
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Maintenance vs CMP1 million+ vs 200,000+ installs · 4.4 vs 4.7
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Maintenance vs Website Builder by SeedProd1 million+ vs 700,000+ installs · 4.4 vs 4.9
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Maintenance vs LightStart1 million+ vs 400,000+ installs · 4.4 vs 4.3
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Maintenance vs Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode Page & Under Construction1 million+ vs 10,000+ installs · 4.4 vs 4.8
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Maintenance vs Coming Soon Maintenance Mode1 million+ vs 7,000+ installs · 4.4 vs 4.7
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Maintenance vs Ultimate Coming Soon1 million+ vs 9,000+ installs · 4.4 vs 4.5
Switching from Maintenance: common questions
What is the best alternative to Maintenance?
CMP is the closest match: it shares the Coming Soon Plugins top 10 with Maintenance and has 200,000+ active installs with a 4.7 out of 5 rating.
Which Maintenance alternative has the most users?
Website Builder by SeedProd, with 700,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Maintenance alternative is rated highest?
Website Builder by SeedProd, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 4,699 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Maintenance alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Maintenance score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Maintenance on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
CMP is the closest match to Maintenance by the data we track, and Website Builder by SeedProd has the widest reach with 700,000+ active installs. CleanTalk shipped the most recent release, on September 2, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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