This plugin adds option to your WordPress Back-End which allows you to control the maintenance mode.
After enabling the maintenance mode, all visitors will see small page which shows short notice about why your site is maintenance.
If you don't like the default look of this page, you can change all the texts and some other things like the background or the user roles.
It's also possible for other theme- or plugin-developers to customize the appereance of the page by hooking into curtain's code and adding custom stylesheets...
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security bug which allowed users to enable disable the maintenance mode without logging in has been fixed.
The bar icon will now also be shown on the front-end.
bug was fixed which disallowed some users to activate the maintenance mode. 1.0.1.
You can now allow visitors with IPs to skip the maintenance mode.
The login link is now also visible on Tablets like iPad mini.
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