Coming Soon Maintenance Mode
Coming Soon Maintenance Mode
Description
The Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode plugin enables WordPress users to set up a temporary landing page or a maintenance screen while working on their site. This tool helps site administrators manage visitor access during website construction, updates, or downtime.
Pro Version Demo: Coming Soon Maintenance Mode Demo
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Video Tutorial – Free Version
Detailed configuration options are available to customize the look and feel of your coming soon page without writing code. The plugin is designed to be responsive, ensuring that your temporary page looks functional on various devices, including desktops, tablets, and mobile phones.
Search engine optimization is a key consideration for this plugin. It allows search engines to crawl your coming soon page, which can help maintain your site’s presence even when the main content is not yet visible.
Key Features
- Coming Soon Mode: Activate a coming soon page to inform visitors about your upcoming site launch.
- Multiple templates: Comes with 35+ prebuilt templates ready to shine.
- Maintenance Mode: Display a maintenance message when performing updates or fixing issues.
- Responsive Design: Templates are built to adapt to different screen sizes.
- Customization: Adjust background images, colors, and text to align with your content.
- SEO Protection: Emits intelligent HTTP status codes (200 OK for Coming Soon, 503 for Maintenance) so search engines know exactly how to handle your site without dropping your rankings.
- Bootstrap 5 Interface: Uses a modern interface for backend settings.
- Countdown Timer: Optionally display a timer to indicate when the site will be live.
- Auto Launch: Schedule your site to go live automatically.
- Import & Export Settings: Easily export your plugin configurations as a JSON file and import them to another site.
- Factory Reset: Reset all plugin settings, template selections, and social media data to default state.
What You Get in the Free Version
- One Click Setup: Get started quickly without complicated configuration steps.
- Super Fast and Handy: Lightweight plugin that won’t slow down your site.
- Minimal Design: Clean, distraction-free templates that focus on your message.
- Free Responsive Templates: Choose from professionally designed templates that work on all devices.
- Customization Settings: Personalize colors, backgrounds, and content to match your brand.
- Website Auto Launch: Set a date and time for your site to go live automatically.
- Settings Management: Full support for exporting, importing, and factory resetting plugin settings.
Upgrade to Pro for More Power
The Pro version includes everything in the free version, plus:
- 35+ Premium Templates: Access a wide variety of professionally designed templates.
- Video Support: Add background videos to make your page more engaging.
- Pre Built Templates: Ready-to-use designs that require minimal setup.
- Advanced Plugin Settings: Fine-tune every aspect of your coming soon page.
- Social Media Profiling: Connect your social accounts to build your audience before launch.
- Custom CSS: Add your own styles for complete design control.
Video Tutorial – Pro Version
Use the Coming Soon mode when you are building a new website and want to collect leads or inform visitors before the official launch. The Maintenance Mode is suitable for existing websites that need to be taken offline temporarily for updates or troubleshooting.
Third-Party Libraries
This plugin utilizes several third-party libraries to provide its features. In accordance with WordPress.org guidelines, the source code for these libraries is documented below:
- Bootstrap (v5.2.3 and v3.3.7): https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap – License: MIT
- Font Awesome Free (v6.2.1): https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome – License: CC BY 4.0, SIL OFL 1.1, MIT
- Particles.js (v2.0.0): https://github.com/VincentGarreau/particles.js – License: MIT
- Slick Carousel (v1.6.0): https://github.com/kenwheeler/slick – License: MIT
- jQuery Countdown (v2.2.0): https://github.com/hilios/jQuery.countdown – License: MIT
- jQuery Placeholder (v2.1.2): https://github.com/mathiasbynens/jquery-placeholder – License: MIT
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
- Use the plugin settings panel to configure your Coming Soon or Maintenance Mode page.
- For detailed visual instructions, refer to the Plugin Documentation.
Screenshots
Faq
After installing the plugin, go to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to the plugin settings. You’ll find an option to enable either Coming Soon or Maintenance Mode. Simply select your preferred mode and save the settings.
No, by default, logged-in administrators and users with appropriate permissions can view the live site while visitors see the coming soon page. This allows you to work on your site while it’s in maintenance mode.
Yes, the plugin offers extensive customization options. You can change backgrounds, colors, fonts, add your logo, customize text, and choose from multiple responsive templates to match your brand.
The plugin includes an auto-launch feature. In the settings, you can set a specific date and time for your site to automatically switch from coming soon mode to live mode without manual intervention.
Yes! The plugin uses intelligent HTTP status codes to protect your Google rankings:
– Coming Soon Mode returns a 200 OK status, telling Google that your new website is actively being built and should start being indexed.
– Maintenance Mode returns a strict 503 Service Unavailable status. This acts as a “Do Not Disturb” sign for search engines, telling them your site is just down for quick repairs and they should come back later without dropping your search rankings!
Yes, But only in Pro version many templates include built-in email subscription forms. You can collect visitor emails to build your audience before your official launch.
Yes, the plugin works independently of your WordPress theme. It displays a standalone coming soon page that doesn’t rely on your theme’s design.
Yes, you can preview your coming soon page while logged in as an administrator before making it live to visitors.
The plugin includes social media options in the settings panel. You can add links to your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social profiles in Pro.
Yes, the plugin is designed to work with popular caching plugins. However, you may need to clear your cache after activating or deactivating the coming soon mode.
Yes, the Pro version includes a custom CSS option that allows you to add your own styles for complete design control.
Coming Soon mode is typically used for new websites that haven’t launched yet, while Maintenance Mode is used for existing sites that are temporarily offline for updates or repairs.
Yes, this plugin is released under the GPL license, allowing usage on any website, including commercial projects.
Go to the plugin settings and change the status to “Live” or “Disabled” to deactivate the coming soon or maintenance page and make your site publicly accessible.
Yes, the plugin is compatible with WordPress multisite installations and can be activated on individual sites within your network.
Yes, the plugin includes countdown timer functionality. You can set a launch date and the timer will automatically count down to that moment.
If you deactivate the plugin, your site will immediately become publicly accessible again. All your settings will be saved if you decide to reactivate it later.
Yes, the plugin is translation ready and supports multiple languages, making it easy to create coming soon pages in your preferred language.
For support questions, please visit the WordPress.org support forum for this plugin. Pro version users receive priority support through our dedicated support channels.
Reviews
Limited templates on free plan
By blissings on May 22, 2023
Easy to use, but limited choices on free version. I didn't get the result I was looking for, for a quick/easy short-term fix.
An Effective Plugin for Creating a Professional Coming Soon Page
By FARAZFRANK on May 17, 2023
The Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode plugin for WordPress is an excellent tool that provides a simple and efficient way to create stunning Coming Soon pages or temporary maintenance mode screens for your website. As a user of this plugin, I have found it to be extremely useful and highly effective in managing the anticipation and expectations of my visitors during periods of website updates or new site launches.
Overall, I highly recommend the "Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode" plugin for WordPress. It offers a wide range of features, intuitive customization options, and excellent performance, making it an indispensable tool for any website
I also contributed for Hindi translation for this plugin.
Thanks
Faraz Khan
Good plugin!
By lauravardanyan on February 24, 2023
Very useful plugin, it has good quality.
Changelog
1.2.0
- New: Added dedicated “Our Plugins” and “Our Themes” dashboard pages with responsive showcase grids (June 29, 2026).
- Security: Bundled SweetAlert2 locally to eliminate remote CDN script execution for WP.org compliance (June 29, 2026).
- Update: Modernized admin banner action buttons with custom gradients and icon designs (June 29, 2026).
- Fixed: Resolved countdown date default initialization on plugin reset and activation to current date + 1 month (June 29, 2026).
- Cleaned: Completely removed deprecated “More Products” page and cleaned up legacy assets (June 29, 2026).
- Cleaned: Removed custom promo notice banner and updated Pro version pricing to $19.00 (June 29, 2026).
1.1.9
- New: Added a dedicated Tools tab with Factory Reset and Import/Export configuration capabilities (June 17, 2026).
- Update: Replaced browser alerts with beautiful, modern SweetAlert2 popups for all confirmation dialogs (June 17, 2026).
- Update: Perfected vertical centering layout for Template 1 (June 17, 2026).
1.1.8
- Update: Overhauled responsive layouts, fixed vertical centering bugs, and perfected mobile spacing and font scaling for Templates 3, 4, and 5 (June 17, 2026).
1.1.7
- Update: Added default countdown date to current date + 1 month on plugin activation.
1.1.6
- SEO: Added proper HTTP status codes (200 OK for Coming Soon mode and 503 Service Unavailable with Retry-After for Maintenance mode) to comply with SEO best practices (June 17, 2026).
1.1.5
- Requirement: Renamed all generic function, class, constant, and variable prefixes to ‘comisoma’ for WP.org guideline compliance.
- Update: Implemented database option migration to preserve user settings during prefix rename.
- Update: Fixed case consistency for plugin constants and renamed internal JS functions.
- Update: Adjusted admin menu position to a lower priority (position 81) to comply with WordPress.org guidelines.
- Compliance: Documented third-party library sources in readme.txt for human-readable code compliance.
- Update: Replaced background videos with statically served images (
temp-11-fg.webp,temp-15-fg.webp) for Template 11 and Template 15 as per the latest requirements. - Update: Removed redundant
templates/videos/directory to further optimize plugin weight. - Update: Pruned unused third-party libraries (Lity, Pace, Modernizr, Bootstrap) and CSS to reduce plugin file size.
- Compliance: Removed restricted Pro functionality code (Custom CSS logic) from the free version.
- Update: Minimalist layout refinements for Templates 11 and 15.
1.1.4
- Security: Updated Modernizr library to 3.13.1 to resolve outdated footprint vulnerabilities.
- Update: Refactored inline scripts and styles from all templates to use WordPress core
wp_enqueue_*functions for better performance and compliance.
1.1.3
- Security: Fixed broken nonce verification in AJAX save handler
- Security: Removed unauthenticated AJAX endpoint (wp_ajax_nopriv_csmm_save)
- Security: Used require_once for core file includes (plugin-install.php, theme-install.php) per WP.org guidelines
- Fixed: Removed auto-activation of plugins after install — install and activate are now separate user actions
- Fixed: Added proper capability checks to all AJAX handlers for plugin/theme install, update, and activate
- Update: Removed duplicate inline JavaScript in favour of properly enqueued external script
1.1.2
- Update: Cleaned up plugin dashboard for WordPress.org guidelines compliance by removing Pro up-sells
- Update: Added a dedicated Pro Features menu page
- Update: UI modernization for Pro features layout
1.1.1
- Fixed: Logo upload not showing preview after selecting image
- Fixed: Logo setting not saving on form save
- Fixed: Mismatched Requires PHP version in readme.txt
- Fixed: Added direct file access protection to all template files
- Fixed: Removed offloaded remote video URLs from templates 11 and 15
- Security: Added nonce verification for logo upload AJAX request
1.1.0
- Plugin is migrated to new website
- All interlinks updated
- Plugin Check plugin all error fixed.
1.0.9
- Favicon Icon bug fixed.
1.0.8
- Testing WordPress 6.7.1
- Template 11, 15 Added
- Bug Fix: Fixed.
1.0.7
- Logo upload issue fixed
- Promo banner size issue fixed
- All PCP error fixed
1.0.6
- Vulnerability issue fixed, reported by Wordfence.com
- Admin banner code sanitized and escaped properly
1.0.5
- Updated to latest version of WordPress
- Add info banner to admin
1.0.4
- The truck version was not committed so recommitted with that version
1.0.3
- Plugin now available into 15 language translations: Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Dutch, Russian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese.
1.0.2
- Update
1.0.1
- video tutorial added and docs tab updated
1.0.0
- starter version









