Saji

Hey there 👋

Yes, you can fully control where the Store Vacation notice appears, especially when using Elementor.

You can add the Store Vacation notice directly inside your Elementor page using either:

• Store Vacation Notice Elementor Widget
• [woo_store_vacation Shortcode

We’ve prepared a step-by-step guide here:
👉 https://mypreview.github.io/woo-store-vacation/#store-vacation-notice-elementor-widget

Once you insert the vacation notice manually (via shortcode or Elementor widget):

• The default automatic notice will be disabled
• The notice will only appear in the exact location you choose
• No more layout issues or split containers in Elementor

This gives you full layout control and avoids conflicts with Elementor’s container system.

If you need help choosing the best placement or styling it within your layout, feel free to ask.

Hi there,

Thank you for reaching out, and I understand how stressful a sudden deindexing issue can be. I want to reassure you with full confidence that Store Vacation for WooCommerce absolutely does not contain any functionality that can affect your site’s indexability, search visibility, or Google’s ability to crawl your pages.

Here are the key points to clarify:

✅ 1. The plugin does not touch anything related to SEO or indexing

Store Vacation does not modify:

• meta tags
• robots.txt
• sitemap files
• canonical URLs
• indexing directives (noindex, nofollow)
• .htaccess rules
• server headers

We simply do not have any code that interacts with those areas.

✅ 2. The plugin does not overwrite or alter your database outside its own settings

The plugin stores only a small set of its own configuration options under your WordPress options table (just like any other normal plugin).
It never:

• deletes WooCommerce tables
• modifies product data
• alters posts/pages
• applies global redirects
• injects code into templates

Uninstalling the plugin removes only the settings related to Store Vacation and nothing else.

✅ 3. Temporary “close store” behavior does not affect Google

Even when the store is in vacation mode, the plugin only controls frontend visibility for customers.
It does not:

• block Googlebot
• return 404/410
• return noindex headers
• password-protect content
• disable the cart for search engines

Search engines continue to access the site normally. Many customers use vacation mode regularly without any SEO impact.⚠️ About what you saw after reinstalling

If you reinstalled the plugin and it still recognized that you had configured the store to reopen in September, that simply means your earlier settings were still in the WordPress options table. This is normal for WordPress plugins unless you choose “Delete data on uninstall” — and even then, the data is limited only to the plugin’s own settings, not your site content.

Again, this cannot influence indexing or remove anything from your site structure.

📌 What you can do next

Since the issue involves:

• complete deindexing
• vague crawl errors
• timing overlap

I strongly recommend checking:

• Google Search Console → Coverage → Errors
• Server logs for spikes in 5xx errors
• Any caching/CDN/firewall (Cloudflare, Sucuri, etc.)
• Hosting provider for downtime during that period
• Whether any SEO plugin added global noindex (this happens surprisingly often)

If you are comfortable sharing screenshots of the crawl errors from Search Console, I can help interpret them.

Please be assured: Store Vacation cannot cause deindexing and does not modify your site’s database or SEO settings in any way.
We’re happy to help you look further into the issue.

Hello John,

Thank you for reporting this issue. At this time, the plugin does not have an option to automatically remove the default vacation notice when the shortcode is used. We appreciate you bringing this to our attention, and we’ll consider it for a future update.

For now, you can hide the automatically inserted notice on your product pages by adding this CSS to your site:

.single-product .main-content > #woo-store-vacation {
    display: none;
}

Thank you again for helping us improve the plugin!

Hi there,
Thank you for your message!

Unfortunately, setting specific hours and minutes for the start and end dates isn’t currently supported in the plugin. That said, I really appreciate you sharing this use case — I’ve added your request to our feature suggestions list for future consideration.

Thanks again for your feedback!

Hey Vladimir,
Thanks for reaching out!

At the moment, the plugin doesn’t offer built-in options to change the button styling. However, you can customize it with CSS using the .woo-store-vacation__btn selector. For example:

.woo-store-vacation__btn {
  background-color: #101010 !important;
  color: #fff !important;
  border-radius: 10px;
  padding: 6px 20px;
}

.woo-store-vacation__msg {
  vertical-align: middle;
}

Feel free to adjust the styles as needed to match your theme.

Hi there, thank you so much for reaching out.

Regarding the issue on your chicmouldings website:
If you’ve confirmed that there are no conditions set that would prevent vacation mode from activating, could you please double-check the following in the Vacation settings?

• Ensure that “Enable Vacation Mode” is checked.
• Also make sure “Disable Purchases” is ticked.

These two options are essential for preventing customers from adding products to the cart and completing checkout.

If everything is set correctly and you’re still seeing issues, feel free to send us a screenshot of your current Woo Vacation settings so we can take a closer look for you.

Hi Mark,

Thanks for reaching out! It sounds like the issue is likely related to caching. If you’re using a caching plugin, please try purging or clearing your site cache. Alternatively, you can go to the Store Vacation plugin settings, uncheck the “Enable Vacation Mode” option, save the settings.

Let me know if you need any help with that!