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Stillgate — Editorial Freeze for Deployments
Freezes editing during deployments and migrations, optionally pauses comments and forms, ends on a timer, and reports what changed.
Stillgate ranks #70,475 among WordPress.org plugins with 0+ active installations, is #1,260 of 1,633 in the Performance category, and was last updated Oct 19, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1.3
v0.2.0
Current Version v0.2.0
Updated 4 days ago
Last Update on 19 Oct, 2026
Refreshed 10 hours ago
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#1,260 of 1,633 in Performance
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- Version
- 0.2.0
- Last Updated
- Oct 19, 2026
- Requires WP
- 6.6+
- Tested Up To
- 7.1.3
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- 8.1 or higher
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Stillgate — Editorial Freeze for Deployments
No. Stillgate only restricts editorial writes from logged-in users without the bypass capability. Anonymous visitors, logged-in customers, and every other frontend read or write that is not editorial content stay unaffected. The only exception is one you choose: pausing visitor comments and form submissions for the length of a freeze, which is off by default.
No. Stillgate enforces its freeze through WordPress's own request handling (admin screens, REST, XML-RPC, WP-CLI, WP-Cron), capability checks and content functions. A direct database edit, a raw SQL script, or a separate application writing to the same database is outside anything a WordPress plugin can see or prevent.
No, and it deliberately does not try. Merging two databases that both changed needs knowledge of every plugin's tables and of which side wins each conflict; a plugin that guessed would eventually overwrite the wrong thing. What Stillgate does is make the risky moment safe: it keeps the database still while you copy it, and the receipt tells you afterwards whether anything changed, with the exact post IDs if it did. See the documentation in the repository.
Contact Form 7, WPForms, Ninja Forms, Fluent Forms, Forminator, Formidable and Everest Forms were each checked on a real site. Gravity Forms and Elementor Pro forms are recognized by their known request shapes but were not tested, because they are paid plugins. Any other form can be added with the deployment_guard_form_requests filter, which the repository documents.
Checkout, orders and order notes keep working during a freeze. Pausing comments also pauses product reviews from visitors. Stock, sales counts and ratings change by themselves while a shop sells, so on a shop the receipt will list products as changed; the deployment_guard_receipt_post_types filter can leave them out.
No. Commands that create, update or delete protected posts, pages, media and terms are blocked and exit with an error. Lower-level commands that write post meta, term assignments, widgets, menu locations, theme mods or other options directly are not blocked. Stillgate's own wp stillgate commands keep working because they only change the freeze state itself.
A protected post scheduled to publish during an active freeze stays scheduled instead. It publishes normally, through WordPress's own mechanism, once the freeze ends.
Yes, per site. Each site's freeze is configured and enforced independently; there is no network-wide screen in this version. A Super Admin is always treated as a bypass holder.
No. Stillgate makes no outbound HTTP requests and has no telemetry. Everything it stores stays in your own site's database.
Stillgate keeps the earlier release's stored settings, so nothing needs to be reconfigured, but both copies share them and only one can run. Install the new ZIP without activating it, deactivate Deployment Guard (this ends a freeze that is active), activate Stillgate, and then delete the old copy while Stillgate is active: Stillgate keeps the freeze configuration, the activity log and every role's bypass capability through that deletion. Do not delete the old copy while Stillgate is inactive, which erases them. If you activate Stillgate first, it stays idle and says so on the Plugins screen until you deactivate the old copy. With WP-CLI: wp plugin install stillgate.zip, wp plugin deactivate deployment-guard, wp plugin activate stillgate, wp plugin delete deployment-guard.
