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Why use the Divi Site Visibility extension?

Sometimes the site is not ready for visitors: a launch in progress, a redesign mid-flight, an urgent fix. This extension hides it behind any published page you choose, designed in the Divi Builder like everything else you make.

It also gets the part most maintenance plugins ignore right: search engines. Coming Soon answers HTTP 200 so a pre-launch teaser can be indexed; Maintenance answers 503 with a Retry-After header so a temporary outage never damages rankings.

Included in Divi Torque Pro, along with every module and extension.

Why site owners pick it

Divi Builder pagesThe holding page is a normal published page. Design it with any module, your fonts, your presets.Correct SEO signalsComing Soon serves 200 and can rank. Maintenance serves 503 with Retry-After, the status search engines expect for downtime.You always see the siteLogged-in users who can edit the theme browse the live site normally while visitors see the holding page.Impossible to forgetA red badge sits in the admin bar on every screen while a mode is on, linking straight to the setting.Armed deliberatelySwitching it on asks for a typed confirmation, so nobody hides a live site by accident.Nothing else breakswp-admin, AJAX, cron, REST, feeds, and robots.txt all pass through untouched.

Everything the Divi Site Visibility extension does

Three settings and a set of guardrails, each one verifiable.

Master switch with a typed confirmation dialogComing Soon mode: HTTP 200, indexableMaintenance mode: HTTP 503 with Retry-After 3600 and no-cache headersAny published page as the holding page, picked from a listThe page renders through its own template, so Divi layouts work as designedUsers who can edit the theme always see the live sitewp-admin, AJAX, cron, REST, XML-RPC, feeds, and robots.txt bypass itRed admin-bar badge on every screen while a mode is activeA persistent settings notice reminds you to check in an incognito windowDeveloper filters for custom bypass rules and template override

See Divi Site Visibility in action

Two modes, one honest difference: the HTTP status your site answers with.

Coming Soon

For pre-launch. The teaser page can be crawled and indexed, so the launch starts with a head start.

HTTP 200

Maintenance

For downtime. Search engines are told the outage is temporary and when to come back.

HTTP 503 + Retry-After

Who sees what

The rules are enforced server side, before the theme even loads.

Visitors

See the holding page you designed, wherever on the site they land.

You and your editors

Anyone who can edit the theme browses the real site and keeps working.

Search engines

Get 200 or 503 with Retry-After, so indexing matches your intent.

Three steps to going dark gracefully

1Build the pageCreate and publish the holding page in the Divi Builder: logo, message, anything you like.2Pick mode and pageComing Soon or Maintenance, then select your page from the list.3Confirm and armType the confirmation, save, and the badge appears in your admin bar until you switch it off.

Divi Site Visibility FAQ

What is the difference between the two modes?The HTTP status. Coming Soon answers 200 so the page can be indexed before launch. Maintenance answers 503 with a Retry-After header, which tells search engines the site is temporarily down and protects rankings.Can I design the holding page with Divi?Yes. It is any published page on your site, rendered through its normal template, so the full Divi Builder is available.Will I lock myself out?No. wp-admin always passes through, and any logged-in user who can edit the theme sees the live site.Does it include a countdown or email signup?Not built in. The holding page is a Divi page, so you can place a countdown module or a form on it yourself, and we would rather be clear about that than imply a separate feature.Will it break my forms, feeds, or integrations?AJAX, REST, cron, XML-RPC, feeds, and robots.txt are all excluded from the takeover, so background machinery keeps running.How do I see what visitors see?Open the site in a private window. As a logged-in admin you deliberately see the live site, and the settings screen reminds you of exactly that.