by Heinrich Franz 4.6 (5 reviews)

Holiday Mode for WooCommerce

Name: Holiday Mode for WooCommerce
Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Author: Heinrich Franz

Set your WooCommerce® shop to holiday mode. Schedule closures and keep customers informed automatically.

Holiday Mode for WooCommerce ranks #7,646 among WordPress.org plugins with 800+ active installations, is #263 of 2,958 in the Discussion & Community category, a 4.6/5 rating from 5 reviews, and was last updated Sep 26, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.2

v3.1.0 Current Version v3.1.0

Updated 1 month ago Last Update on 26 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on

#263 of 2,958 in Discussion & Community Top 10% by installs Downloads +17.2% this week

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Plugin Details

Version: 3.1.0
Last Updated: Sep 26, 2026
Requires WP: 6.0+
Tested Up To: 7.2
PHP Version: 8.0 or higher
Author: Heinrich Franz

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6
Reviews: 5
Support Threads: 0
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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WooCommerce store owners who need to close their shop temporarily for holidays, vacations, or maintenance. It solves the problem of managing store closures by scheduling holiday mode to automatically disable ordering and display a custom absence message during the closed period.

Disables add-to-cart button
Disables shopping cart
Disables checkout
Custom absence message
Scheduled start and end date
Automatic deactivation after holiday period

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Holiday Mode for WooCommerce

Yes, if the "Disable purchasing" setting is enabled. As soon as Holiday Mode becomes active, existing cart contents are removed automatically so nobody can check out with items added before your break started.

Yes. Once today's date is past your configured end date, Holiday Mode stops being active on the next page load - you don't need to log back in and switch it off manually. You can also turn it off early at any time from the settings page.

Yes. Set "Advance notice" (under WooCommerce -> Settings -> Holiday Mode) to the number of days before your start date you'd like to give customers a heads-up. During that window, a separate, distinctly styled notice is shown - purchasing stays fully enabled until Holiday Mode itself becomes active on the configured start date.

No. Holiday Mode only disables purchasing and displays your absence message - it doesn't hide pages, add noindex tags, or otherwise change how your site is treated by search engines.

Yes. Saving your Holiday Mode settings automatically flushes the page cache of all major caching plugins (W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, WP Fastest Cache, Cache Enabler, Breeze, WP-Optimize, Hummingbird, SiteGround Optimizer, Swift Performance), and pages are marked as non-cacheable for as long as Holiday Mode is active, so visitors always see its current status.

Yes. New orders are blocked the same way for headless storefronts as for a regular WordPress theme: products become non-purchasable and adding to cart or checking out is rejected while Holiday Mode is active. Your frontend can also ask the WooCommerce Store API directly whether Holiday Mode is active and what your absence message is, so it can be displayed even though it never renders any WordPress page. No setup is required for this - it is available as soon as the plugin is active, using your existing Holiday Mode settings.

Holiday Mode is included automatically in the Cart and Checkout endpoint responses (/wc/store/v1/cart and /wc/store/v1/checkout), under extensions.holiday-mode-woocommerce: { "active": true, "purchasing_disabled": true, "message": "We are on vacation, back on 1 September.", "notice_type": "error" }