=== WP Symposium Scheduled Maintenance ===
Contributors: wpsymposium
Tags: utility, wordpress
Requires at least: 6.8
Requires PHP: 7.4
Stable tag: 1.0.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Schedule a visitor maintenance page with automatic expiry.

== Description ==
Open Tools > WP Symposium Maintenance. Enable a schedule in the site timezone, set the visitor message, and preview it. Purge page and CDN caches after settings changes. Administrators bypass maintenance; visitors receive HTTP 503 only inside the enabled window. Expiry is evaluated per request, without WP-Cron.

No WPSymposium account, subscription, tracking, or external service is required. This initial release has not been submitted to the WordPress.org directory.

== Installation ==
1. In WordPress, select Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
2. Upload the ZIP, install and activate it.
3. Test on staging before using on a live website.

== Usage ==
Open Tools > WP Symposium Maintenance. Enable a schedule in the site timezone, set the visitor message, and preview it. Purge page and CDN caches after settings changes. Administrators bypass maintenance; visitors receive HTTP 503 only inside the enabled window. Expiry is evaluated per request, without WP-Cron.

== Changelog ==
= 1.0.0 =
Initial release.
