Getting Started — Dev Maintenance Lite

Requirements

• WordPress 6.4 or later
• PHP 8.3 or later

Installation

1. Download the plugin ZIP from your LittleBig account.
2. In WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
3. Upload the ZIP and activate.

Database charset conversion

Caution

Always take a full database backup before running a charset conversion. This operation modifies every table in your WordPress database.

1. Go to Dev Maintenance → Database.
2. Review the list of tables and their current charset/collation.
3. Click Convert to utf8mb4 to begin conversion.
4. A progress log appears as each table is processed.

Maintenance mode

1. Go to Dev Maintenance → Maintenance Mode.
2. Toggle Enable Maintenance Mode on.
3. Visitors see a maintenance page. Logged-in administrators see the site normally.
4. Toggle off when maintenance is complete.