Lord’s Day Rest Plugin for WordPress
Labor Time to Prototype: about 15 minutes
Project Began: Saturday April 26, 2025
Working version: Saturday April 26, 2025
AI Models used: Grok 3, Venice.ai
Most Recently updated: Saturday, April 26, 2025
Lord's Day Rest Plugin
A Custom WordPress Plugin that has a website rest on Sundays, The Lord’s Day. You can visit the Github link to download and install it on your own website Instructions are on the page
- Automatically have your WordPress website shift to “rest mode” with friendly message explaining when the site will be back up.
- SEO-Friendly 503 message explains to robots crawling around that the site is only temporarily down and they can come back on Monday. The number of seconds is given to the crawling bot to help SEO stay on-top. This is different than 404 type messages saying page cannot be found.
- Test the mode by going to any page on our site and type at the end of the URL /?test_lords_day=1 this tells the browser to try the test mode which includes more information.