Advanced Settings 3 vs LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder

Advanced Settings is a powerful WordPress plugin that provides settings you would expect to find in the WordPress core. It is lightweight, performant and offers a modern, fast and user-friendly interface. 🚀 PERFORMANCE Advanced Settings 3 is optimized for extreme performance. It even loads only necessary PHP. → details in FAQ 🪶 LIGHTWEIGHT Advanced Settings 3 is lightweight (only about 0.5 MB) and discreet (no dashboard hijacking). → details in FAQ 🔒 SECURITY Advanced Settings 3 has been independently reviewed for security vulnerabilities via Patchstack. → details in FAQ ✳️ INFO ABOUT THE 2 BAD RATINGS Bad ratings occurred in 2017 because users used outdated PHP versions, but can’t happen again. → details in FAQ — FEATURES 🩷 FEATURE REQUESTS ARE WELCOME Advanced Settings 3 was developed to help as many users as possible. If you’d like to see a feature added to this plugin, please let us know. Don’t worry, we’ll keep the plugin fast and lean; this is a high priority for us. We’ll only implement features that don’t conflict with this. Admin Area Hide the top admin bar for all users in the frontend Hide WordPress update message in dashboard Hide the welcome panel in the dashboard Hide the default widgets in the dashboard 💥 new Customize the admin area branding 💥 new Frontend Remove PHP version from HTTP headers 💥 new Add security HTTP headers 💥 new Automatically add FavIcon (when favicon.ico, favicon.png or favicon.svg exists in template folder) Add Facebook Open Graph meta tags Remove shortlink meta tag Remove RSD (Weblog Client Link) meta tag Remove WordPress generator meta tag Automatically add description meta tag using blog description and post excerpt (SEO) Disable author pages Remove wptexturize filter Disable auto embed of external content 💥 new Limit excerpt length Add “Read more” link after excerpt Remove trackbacks and pingbacks from comment count Protect email addresses from spam bots Compress HTML code Remove HTML comments (except conditional IE comments) Disable emoji image replacement Editing Disable posts auto saving Limit post revisions 💥 new Allow SVG uploads for admins 💥 new Downsize images on upload to max size Set JPEG quality Add thumbnail support Automatically generate post thumbnail (from first image in post) System Hide default WordPress favicon Disable comment system Disable XML-RPC 💥 new Disable public REST API 💥 new Prevent installation of new default WordPress themes during core updates Disable email notifications for core updates Disable email notifications for plugin updates Disable email notifications for theme updates Create custom post types 💥 renewed Developer Display SQL queries and page load time Configuration Show/hide deprecated features Show/hide experimental features Configure tracking consent for feature usage statistics Configure visibility of user guide Contribute on github: github.com/eHtmlu/advanced-settings

Add a maintenance page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance, add a coming soon page for a new website or create a landing page for an existing site. User with admin rights gets full access to the blog including the front end. Activate the plugin and your blog is in maintenance-mode, works and only registered users with enough rights can see the front end. You can use a date with a countdown timer for visitor information or set a value and unit for information. Also works with WordPress Multisite installs (each blog from the network has its own maintenance settings). Features Fully customizable (change colors, texts and backgrounds). Subscription form (export emails to .csv file). Countdown timer (remaining time). Contact form (receive emails from visitors). Coming soon page; Landing page templates; WordPress multisite; Responsive design; Social media icons; Works with any WordPress theme; SEO options; Exclude URLs from maintenance; Bot functionality to collect the emails in a friendly and efficient way; GDPR Ready; Bugs, technical hints or contribute Please give us feedback, contribute and file technical bugs on GitHub Repo. Credits Developed by Themeisle What’s Next If you like this plugin, then consider checking out our other projects: Optimole – Optimole is your all-in-one image optimization solution for WordPress & beyond. WPShout – In-Depth WordPress Tutorials for Developers Revive Social – Revive Old Posts helps you keep your content alive and in front the audiences that matter. CodeinWP – CodeinWP stands for all-things-WordPress. From web design to freelancing and from development to business, your questions are covered. DomainWheel – Free Short Website name generator, with the help of AI, for instant ideas. Check-out our blog to learn from our WordPress Reviews and see other WordPress plugins.