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Hi everyone this is Abhishek from Key2Blogging and in this video I will show you how can enable
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maintenance mode in your WordPress website. So suppose you have just installed a WordPress
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website and you want to put your website in maintenance mode. Then how you can do that
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So just follow the instructions as shown in this video. The process will be very simple
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you need to install a plugin called maintenance mode like that and the maintenance mode will be
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enabled in your website. But before that what is the benefit of enabling maintenance mode in
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your website? So suppose you have installed a fresh WordPress website and you want to make
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changes to this website. So if you don't enable maintenance mode then search engine crawlers may
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crawl your website and they can index content like placeholder text, placeholder links in search
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result. Then that will be not good for your SEO. So you need to put maintenance mode and stay away
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search engine bot and visitors until you have finished the customization of the work
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So to enable maintenance mode we are going to use the subdomain learn.key2blogging.com
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So I previously made a video on how to create a subdomain. So this is the main domain key2blogging.com
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and this is the subdomain learn.key2blogging.com. So I want to put maintenance mode in this website
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So how I can do that? So for this let me just go to the dashboard and we are going to use a
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plugin called WP maintenance mode. So you can just simply search for maintenance mode in
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plugin section. I will go to plugin and I will click on add new button
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Now I can simply search for maintenance mode and here you will see a lot of plugins like WP
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maintenance mode and coming soon and another one is seedpod and there are various coming soon and
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maintenance plugins. So let's install the first plugin WP maintenance mode by themeisle. So just
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install this plugin. Now let's activate this plugin. Now it will ask you to enable maintenance
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mode or coming soon page. So if you are doing it in your existing website then you can put
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maintenance mode and if you are just installing a fresh WordPress website then you can enable
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coming soon page like that. So let's click on continue. Now it will ask you to enter your email
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address. So let me just skip for this. Now let's click on view page. Now let's close this one and
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this is your maintenance page. So you can also add your email address and collect email address
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while you put your website in maintenance mode. So let's update this page. Now let's click on
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view page here. Okay this is how the maintenance page looks like and it will show the number of
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days time. So you can set this time here. So let's click on here. Now let's click on settings
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and you can change the time according to your choice. So let's change the year to
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let's change it to something like September 30. Now it will show the time like 6 days 14 hours and you can also put this image to the center
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So let's increase the width to around 1100 like this and you can add your social media links here
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like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and you can also collect emails from your visitors while you
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put your website in maintenance mode. So let's update this page. Now let's refresh this page
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So as you can see the maintenance mode is now live and you can see the day is changed to 6 days
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and you can add the social media links like that and if you want to check your website then you
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can do that by logging to your website. So let me just go to the dashboard and let me just visit
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this site here and as you can see it is showing the original webpage because you have logged into
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your WordPress admin panel but if you open the same website with other browser or other devices
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then it will show the maintenance mode. So in this way you can put your website in maintenance mode
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or commission mode like that and you can customize your website and after you finish the customization
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of your new WordPress website you can just go to the dashboard and let's go to the plugin and you
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can delete these two plugins and it will deactivate your maintenance mode and you will also see the
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deactivate button here. So this is how you put your maintenance mode in WordPress website and
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if you found this video helpful then make sure to hit the like button and do subscribe K2 blogging
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for more upcoming videos like this and I will see you in the next video. Thank you
