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Cookbook Maintenance SeedProd

Check your site is live and switch off SeedProd coming soon with AI

Your AI checks what visitors really see, then switches off coming soon or maintenance mode on your yes.

Difficulty Beginner
Time ~5 min

Prerequisites

A site connected to WPVibe with SeedProd 6.20 or newer (free or Pro) on WordPress 6.9 or newer, and an administrator account.

The prompt
My site uses SeedProd and I think it should be [live now / ready to launch]. Check what visitors actually see, and change nothing until I say yes.

1. Run SeedProd's seedprod/get-status ability. Tell me whether coming soon mode or maintenance mode is on, and the page id each one uses. Ignore the license fields in get-status: on the free SeedProd they can show an old Pro license. Go by build (lite or pro).
2. Anyone logged in usually sees the real site, so check what visitors see with get_page_html, which fetches the page as a visitor. If visitors see a different page from the one get-status names, stop and tell me. Fetch my homepage and [one more page, e.g. /contact/]. Tell me what a visitor gets now: the coming soon page, the maintenance page (which also tells search engines the site is down, with a 503 code), or the real site. If they get one short line asking to create the Coming Soon Page or the Maintenance Page, say so: the mode is on with a page id that has no SeedProd layout. If get-status shows both modes off but visitors still see a holding page, it is a cache or another plugin: change nothing and tell me.
3. Read the search engine setting with run_wp_cli: option get blog_public. If it is 0, tell me that Discourage search engines from indexing this site is ticked in Settings, Reading. That is a separate switch from SeedProd; don't change it unless I ask.
4. Stop and tell me what you will change. On my yes, switch off whichever mode is on with seedprod/toggle-coming-soon or seedprod/toggle-maintenance and enabled false. Don't pass page_id, so the same page stays ready for next time, and don't delete any page.
5. Run seedprod/get-status again and fetch the homepage again with get_page_html. Confirm a visitor now sees the real site. If the old page still shows, tell me to clear my host's or caching plugin's cache, then fetch it again. Tell me that turning the mode back on is one request to you.
Already connected?

Skip pasting the full prompt. Drop this into your AI on a site that already has WPVibe:

Run the “Check your site is live and switch off SeedProd coming soon with AI” recipe from the WPVibe cookbook on my connected site.

You launched weeks ago, or you think you did. SeedProd shows you the real site while you are logged in, so from your own browser everything looks live while customers still get the coming soon page, or a maintenance page that tells Google the site is down. It is a common way to lose the first weeks of traffic without noticing.

Ask your AI assistant and it checks SeedProd’s status, fetches your homepage the way a visitor sees it, and reads the WordPress setting that asks search engines to stay away. It tells you in plain words what customers get today and changes nothing until you say yes. Then it switches the mode off, keeps your coming soon page for next time, and fetches the homepage again to prove the real site is showing.

Run it on launch day and again whenever someone says your site looks closed. If your host or a caching plugin caches pages, clear that cache after the switch. To design a new coming soon page, use the coming soon page recipe.

Outcome

You know what visitors see, and on your yes the site is out of coming soon or maintenance mode with the real homepage showing.