Don’t set this up unless you want to be locked out your own site!

  • What a complete waste of time… Set up maintenance mode as was needing to make updates. Come back next day to turn off the maintenance page and set the site live to find no way to login! The maintenace mode restricts access to all pages including the login page, so now have no access to the website at all! That is RIDICULOUS. Needed to go into my files on c-panel hosting to remove the plugin so I could access my own website again. Surely that should not be what is expected everytime I want to enable/disable a maintenance page?? I love OptinMonster but no way I will pay for this with such ridiculous function. A login option should be visible even for the free plugin??

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  • @chrisozon We are sorry about that.

    A possible reason is plugin conflict or theme because by default login page is excluded in our Coming Soon/Maintenance page.

    If possible you can try to deactivate each plugin to check the conflict or contact the hosting provider to check error logs related to our plugin.

    We hope the above helps.

    Thread Starter chrisozon

    (@chrisozon)

    Yes tried all of that. It simply does not recognise my login page , either the page I created at domain/login or the wp login page wp_login.php.

    This maybe because I have built the wordpress site in a folder rather than the main domain, ie the wordpress install is at domain/uk and the login page is at domain/uk/login and the wp login page is at domain/uk/wp_login.php but this makes it useless for me , and probably many others.

    @chrisozon Thank you for the update.

    In that case, make sure you clear your site cache. Most hosts have a caching layer that needs to be cleared when updates are made. Check with your host if you are unsure how to clear.

    Plugin Author SeedProd

    (@seedprod)

    @chrisozon Sorry for the issue, the plugin does not run on the login page so the default WordPress login page is always available even if it is in a subfolder. The login page for WordPress wp-login.php, no underscore. So you may be typing it wrong.

    domain/uk/wp-login.php

    If that does not work post the URL and I can send you the default login page address.

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