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)

Curtains - Maintenance mode & coming soon pages