Coming Soon Maintenance Mode vs Maintenance Redirect

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 Buy Pro Version: Buy Coming Soon Maintenance Mode 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

This plugin is intended primarily for designers / developers that need to allow clients to preview sites before being available to the general public or to temporarily hide your WordPress site 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 plugin 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 2 different header types. “200 OK” is best used for when the site is under development and “503 Service Temporarily Unavailable” is best for when the site is temporarily taken offline for small amendments. If used for a long period of time, 503 can damage your Google ranking. A list of IP addresses can be set up to completely bypass maintenance mode. 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. See FAQ below about working through a proxy. Access keys work by creating a cookie on the user’s computer that will be checked for 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. This plugin allows three methods of notifying users that a site is undergoing maintenance: They can be presented with a simple message. They can be presented with a custom HMTL page. They can be redirected to a static HTML page. This static page will need to be uploaded to the server via FTP or some other method. This plugin DOES NOT include any way to upload the static page file. Any URL can be used here, and it doesn’t need to be on the same server (so you could redirect back to the client’s current site if you’re working on a dev site, for example). However, it should NOT be the URL of a WordPress page or post on the same site as this will result in an infinite redirect loop.