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During theme or plugin upgrades, maintenance mode is enabled and then disabled once complete.

Is it possible to manually enable / disable maintenance mode?

Enabling Maintenance mode... Downloading update from xxxx Disabling Maintenance mode...

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WP-CLI now has native commands for it.

# Activate Maintenance mode
$ wp maintenance-mode activate
# Deactivate Maintenance mode
$ wp maintenance-mode deactivate

See wp-cli/maintenance-mode-command for more information.

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You can enable maintenance mode in WordPress by adding a .maintenance file to your root WordPress directory. It will need to include:

<?php
$upgrading = time();

With this file in place, your site will be in maintenance mode until you remove the file.

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    To add to that, WordPress looks at the timestamp of $upgrading and if it's more than 10 minutes old assumes the maintenance window has passed, and ignores the .maintenance file.
    – William Turrell
    Feb 10, 2016 at 15:54
  • Which is not what OP asked for. They want to know how to do that using WP-CLI.
    – leymannx
    Apr 25, 2019 at 20:23
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    @leymannx There wasn't a way to enable / disable maintenance mode with WP-CLI at the time of my posting.
    – Daniel Bachhuber
    Apr 26, 2019 at 21:02
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I use a plug-in for maintenance mode and always leave it "in" maintenance mode.

Practically you can then turn on/off the actual maintenance mode by turning on/off that plugi-in — which is easy through wp-cli:

# activate maintenance mode, flush caches and stuff
wp plugin activate ultimate-maintenance-mode
# do maintenance things
wp plugin deactivate ultimate-maintenance-mode
# flush caches again so the maintenance page does not show up
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    Great workaround! Although I can't believe there isn't a native feature in wp-cli that does that.
    – pagliuca
    Nov 19, 2017 at 21:04
  • There doesn't seem to be a native WordPress function that does this, so wp-cli has nothing to call on.
    – Slam
    May 18, 2018 at 22:07
  • The Plugin is removed now.
    – Steve Moretz
    Mar 28, 2022 at 22:14

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