Curtains

Curtains lets you draw a polished "curtain" over your site — a maintenance screen or a coming-soon launch page — while keeping admins, allow-listed IPs, and people holding a secret preview link working as normal. It ships with a custom control-panel section, CLI commands for your deploy scripts, a deploy banner, email signup capture, a countdown timer, and two designed layouts.

Features

Maintenance

• Enable/disable from the control panel or the command line
• Correct 503 Service Unavailable response (with Retry-After when an end time is scheduled), or 200 if you prefer
• Optional no-cache headers so the curtain is never cached by browsers or proxies
• Admin bypass — logged-in users with CP access keep browsing
• IP allowlist with CIDR range support (toggleable)
• Named secret preview links with an optional expiry (or never) — listable and revocable on demand
• Optional automatic start and end times for scheduled deployment windows
• Custom heading and message

Deployment

• CLI commands: curtains/on, curtains/off, curtains/status — drop them straight into your deploy pipeline
• Deploy banner shown to admins across the CP (e.g. "Maintenance mode enabled by John Doe 5 minutes ago"), toggleable

Launch / coming soon

• Countdown timer to a target date (its own field, falling back to the scheduled end)
• Email signup capturing name and email, stored in Craft and exportable to CSV, with honeypot + per-IP throttle to deter spam
• Configurable signup button text and success message
• Social and contact icons (Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, WhatsApp, email, phone)
• Analytics (GA4 measurement ID or a custom snippet)
• SEO controls (title, description, X-Robots-Tag / noindex)

Design

• Minimal layout — background image, logo, message, countdown, email form, social links
• Split screen layout — image on the left or right, content on the other side
• Configurable background colour, text colour, accent colour, background image, logo, and favicon

Extras

• Device preview mode (desktop / tablet / mobile) so you can check the curtain before raising it
• Dashboard "Curtains" widget (status, enabled at, scheduled off at, allowed IPs, subscribers)
• Granular permissions so you can scope access per user group
• Fully translatable (all strings run through the curtains translation category)