{"id":418,"date":"2018-07-31T06:53:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T06:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/woocommerce\/how-to-enable-maintenance-mode-in-woocommerce\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T03:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:26:43","slug":"how-to-enable-maintenance-mode-in-woocommerce","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/woocommerce-migration\/how-to-enable-maintenance-mode-in-woocommerce\/","title":{"rendered":"How to enable maintenance mode in WooCommerce?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WooCommerce refers to its built-in maintenance mode as Coming soon mode. When enabled, it hides your website or store pages behind a Coming Soon page while administrators continue working in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To enable it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Log in to your WordPress Admin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to <strong>WooCommerce > Settings > Site visibility<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select <strong>Coming soon<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enable <strong>Apply to store pages only<\/strong> if you want to hide only WooCommerce pages, such as Shop, Cart, and Checkout, while keeping the rest of the website visible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/coming-soon-mode-woocommerce-1024x281.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/coming-soon-mode-woocommerce-1024x281.png 1024w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/coming-soon-mode-woocommerce-300x82.png 300w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/coming-soon-mode-woocommerce-768x211.png 768w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/coming-soon-mode-woocommerce-1536x422.png 1536w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/coming-soon-mode-woocommerce.png 1908w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If needed, enable <strong>Share your site with a private link<\/strong> to give selected people access.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click <strong>Save changes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When your store is ready, return to <strong>Site visibility<\/strong>, select <strong>Live<\/strong>, and save your changes. You can find more details in the official <a href=\"https:\/\/woocommerce.com\/document\/configuring-woocommerce-settings\/coming-soon-mode\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WooCommerce Coming soon mode guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In case you have any other questions, please email us at\u00a0<strong>litextension@support.litextension.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[1069,1280,1283],"class_list":["post-418","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_tag-litextension","doc_tag-maintenance-mode","doc_tag-woocommerce"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7912,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/418\/revisions\/7912"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/21"}],"next":[{"title":"Can I preserve order IDs while migrating to WooCommerce?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/woocommerce-migration\/can-i-preserve-order-ids-whilst-migrating-to-woocommerce\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/515"}],"prev":[{"title":"Can I migrate metadata from\/to WooCommerce?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/woocommerce-migration\/migrate-metadata-to-from-woocommerce\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}