Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib vs Maintenance & Coming Soon Redirect Animation

Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib is a free WordPress plugin that lets you display a professional coming soon page, under construction page, or maintenance mode screen to your visitors while you work on your site behind the scenes. Set it up in minutes directly from the WordPress Live Customizer — no coding required. Choose from 15 fully responsive coming soon templates, each pre-designed with modern layouts and fully customizable through the Customizer. Add your own logo, background image, heading text, countdown timer, and social media links. Collect email subscribers with the built-in MailChimp integration so you can build your audience before launch day. Logged-in users can browse and edit the site normally while non-logged-in visitors see only the coming soon or maintenance page. The plugin also blocks the WordPress REST API for visitors to prevent content exposure while your site is under construction. Why Choose This Coming Soon Plugin? 100% free — no premium version, no ads, no feature restrictions 15 responsive templates — professionally designed coming soon, maintenance mode, and under construction page layouts Live Customizer — customize everything in real time without touching code Countdown timer — display a launch countdown with configurable date and 12/24-hour format MailChimp subscribe form — collect emails and grow your list while in maintenance mode Social media integration — add links to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, and email Custom logo and background — upload your brand logo and a custom background image Google Analytics 4 — track visitors to your coming soon page with GA4 Custom CSS — add your own styles for advanced customization REST API protection — blocks public API access while the site is under construction Developer friendly — use the ccsm_skip_redirect and ccsm_force_redirect filters to control redirect behavior Works with all WordPress themes — self-contained templates run independently of your active theme Privacy conscious — no tracking of its own. Note that enabling the optional Google Analytics field, and the Google Fonts each template loads, involve requests to Google, which you may need to disclose depending on your jurisdiction How It Works Install and activate the plugin Go to Coming Soon (in the WordPress admin menu) Pick a template and customize the content, colors, images, and countdown timer Enable coming soon mode — visitors see your launch page, you keep working Links Documentation and Support GitHub Repository This plugin is developed and maintained by Colorlib. If you enjoy using it, please leave a review — it helps other WordPress users discover the plugin.

This super lightweight plugin is intended primarily for developers, designers and site administrators that need to allow clients to preview the site before being available to the public or to temporarily hide it while undergoing major updates. Any logged-in user with WordPress administrator privileges will be allowed to view the site regardless of the settings in the plugin. The exact privilege can be set using a filter hook – see FAQs. The behaviour of this can be enabled or disabled at any time without losing any of the settings configured in its settings pane. However, deactivating the plugin is recommended versus having it activated while disabled. When redirect is enabled, it can send a different header types. A list of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses can be set up to completely bypass maintenance mode. IPv4 Class C wildcards are also supported. This option is useful when needing to allow a client’s entire office to access the site while in maintenance mode without needing to maintain individual access keys. Access keys work by creating a temporary cookie on the user’s computer that will be checked against when maintenance mode is active. When a new key is created, a link to create the access key cookie will be emailed to the email address provided. Access can then be revoked either by disabling or deleting the key. Whitelisted User Roles – user roles who see the site, instead of under maintenance page Whitelisted Users – users who see the site, instead of maintenance page Password Access – allow visitors to preview the site with a shared password. Password access lasts for 24 hours in each browser. Custom Maintenance Pages – select a published page from its post list actions to use it as the maintenance page, with an option to exclude individual public posts from maintenance mode. Custom Login URL – optionally restrict direct access to wp-login.php and use a custom login URL instead. Animations : Animation on the web is not only fun, but engaging in such a way that it has converted site visitors into customers even before will be available to the general public and it will make them eagerly await its launch. You can either choose your animation from the library or upload your own; this animation will be shown in front of your site when it is undergoing maintenance. The included Lottie Animation (WP Loti) Gutenberg block lets you insert an animation from the plugin library into posts and pages, with autoplay, loop, width, and height controls. Notes : ✔ This plugin will override any other maintenance plugin you use. ✔ All settings are auto-updated , you don’t need to save anything . WP-CLI Commands : Note : before you begin run these commands make sure you have wp-cli installed on your server and your are in your WordPress site Root folder ✔ To install the plugin via wp-cli : sudo wp plugin install maintenance-coming-soon-redirect-animation --allow-root ✔ To activate it : sudo wp plugin activate maintenance-coming-soon-redirect-animation --allow-root ✔ To deactivate it : sudo wp plugin deactivate maintenance-coming-soon-redirect-animation --allow-root ✔ To uninstall it : sudo wp plugin uninstall maintenance-coming-soon-redirect-animation --allow-root Note : before you can uninstall the plugin you have to deactivate it first ✔ To Update the plugin : sudo wp plugin update maintenance-coming-soon-redirect-animation --allow-root