Hello @beatnik,

There is no built-in option to exclude the homepage because what you need is a very particular case.

Anyway, you can try this snippet of code:

/**
 * Disable maintenance mode on homepage 
 * 
 * @param boolean $is_excluded
 * @return boolean
 */
function wpmm_disable_maintenance_on_homepage($is_excluded) {
	if (is_home() || is_front_page()) {
		$is_excluded = true;
	}

	return $is_excluded;
}

add_filter('wpmm_is_excluded', 'wpmm_disable_maintenance_on_homepage', 11, 1);

Place the snippet at the end of the functions.php file (located inside your active theme/child-theme directory). If there is a PHP closing tag ?>, make sure you add the code before it.

—
George

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by George J.

i’ve come across the same issue multiple times and it’s actually not a very particular case: when developing a site for a client on a dev server you usually get to a point when you’d like to let them review the front page and not necessarily other pages.
in another plugin this is possible by excluding the front page with a shortcode, [home] if i remember correct. maybe this solution could be implemented here as well?