Top 10 WordPress Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode Plugins

Do you have a great website idea you’re planning on launching? A lot of creatives and business owners overlook one of the most important aspects of building a website. Many bloggers, photographers, artists, small business owners, and entrepreneurs overlook the pre-launch version of their site by leaving a generic splash page set as the default homepage or simply a blank page when a visitor goes to their website’s domain.

If you’ve generated a large following on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram then you’ll want to highly consider creating a beautiful and easy to use coming soon or maintenance mode page. Creating a coming soon page while your site is under construction will allow you to communicate to your fans and followers and let them know that you’re site will soon be launching. It will also give you the ability to collect their personal information (name, location, email address, phone number, etc.), which will allow you to build you newsletter list before going live with your new website.

Why is Collecting Personal Information Important?

We’ll call this lead generation. Sure, these people already follow you on social media sites but you don’t gain any benefit from them liking your pictures, tweets, or posts. Collecting user information while your site is under construction will allow you to follow up with your valued fans and followers to let them know of important milestone dates. For example, your site’s launch date, exclusive discounts for newsletter subscribers only, or a weekly or monthly newsletter with updates about your business or site’s progress.

You’ll eventually learn that collecting personal information from your fans and visitors will play a vital role in how you monetize your website in the future. This will allow you to effectively communicate with a highly targeted audience and drive them to perform a certain action on your site or go through a specific sales funnel.

Best Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode Plugins of 2016

We’ve scoured the internet and truly wish to see you succeed in your online endeavor. We’ve put together a top 10 list of what we believe are the top Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode WordPress plugins at the time of this writing. Please keep in mind that there are also many great coming soon, maintenance mode, and under construction WordPress themes available as well. This post only focuses on the available WordPress plugins for this topic.

This list of WordPress plugins offers a lot of amazing features that will give you the ability to customize the look of your coming soon or maintenance mode page. Some of these features include:

• Visible to non-logged in users
• MailChimp, Aweber, GetResponse Integration
• Beautiful and professional pre-made template designs
• Ability to customize what form fields are enabled
• Google Analytics tracking
• Conversion tracking
• Custom CSS and HTML
• Social media icons
• Fully responsive designs
• and much more!

Launch Your Site with Style!

How to create a coming soon or under construction page in WordPress is a simple process. You’ll first need to choose a coming soon, maintenance mode, or under construction plugin from the list below. Then, you’ll want to find a web host that supports your needs. PeoplesHost will automatically set up WordPress for you and help you install your plugin at no additional cost! Don’t hesitate to reach out to support if you have any hosting related questions.

Here is our top 10 list of WordPress plugins for you to browse and choose from:

SeedProd’s WordPress Coming Soon Pages & Maintenance Mode Made Easy

SeedProd has really outdone themselves with a great coming soon and maintenance mode plugin. This plugin works with any WordPress theme, is fully responsive, can be easily customized, uses HTML5 and CSS3, and can be set to show only to non-logged in users.

There’s a bunch of other built-in features, but one we haven’t seen with other coming soon plugins is the referral system. This allows for anyone who signs up to your site the option to use a specific referral to their account to share to their network of friends, family, and colleagues. Another great feature of SeedProd’s plugin is the option to use video or a background image on the page behind your content.

Website: www.seedprod.com/
WordPress: www.wordpress.org/plugins/coming-soon/

Chop Chop Coming Soon CC Pro

The Coming Coon CC plugin by Chop Chop is a very easy to use plugin. There is a free and Pro version available. The free version limits you to one design template however, if you decide to purchase the Pro version ($29 USD for Single License) you’ll have the ability to choose from 6 design templates and also integrate with MailChimp.

You can also integrate Google Analytics to track visitors that come to your coming soon page, set email notifications, and showcase your social media accounts.

Website: www.shop.chop-chop.org/coming-soon/
WordPress: www.wordpress.org/plugins/cc-coming-soon/

Supsystic Coming Soon Plugin

Supsytic has delivered a Coming Soon plugin that’s definitely worth it’s value. There’s a free version available however, if you choose to use the Pro version the pricing is as follows; one site license will cost $29, five site license $49, and unlimited sites $99.

The Pro version of this plugin has 9 templates you can choose from, under construction and maintenance mode options, subscription option, coming soon page live preview, and different modes you can set for your page (Coming Soon page, redirect to URL, and 503 Header Response).

Website: www.supsystic.com/plugins/coming-soon-plugin/
WordPress: www.wordpress.org/plugins/coming-soon-by-supsystic/

SunshineSites Coming Soon Pages Made Easy

SunshineSites claims you don’t have to be a design expert. They offer 12 pre-defined templates to choose from with their Coming Soon pages Made Easy WordPress plugin. They offer a free and Pro version of the Coming Soon Pages Made Easy. The Pro will cost you $39 dollars and gives you extra features such as MailChimp integration, countdown option, and additional tracking.

You’ll also receive 1 year of support and 1 year of updates when you upgrade to Pro.

Website:
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MyThemeShop Launcher WordPress Plugin

Launcher by MyThemeShop is a great WordPress plugin for anyone looking to launch their website, product, or service. It’s a free plugin and some features you see as Pro features with other plugins such as, form field and countdown ticker, comes free with Launcher.

It’s a lightweight and easy to use plugin that allows you to customize three templates out of the box with the frontend editor. The built in contact form supports MailChimp, AWeber, GetResponse, Campaign Monitor, and Mad Mimi.

Website: www.mythemeshop.com/plugins/launcher/
WordPress: www.wordpress.org/plugins/launcher/

SmartCat Design WP Construction Mode

SmartCat has released Construction Mode V2, which is a clean, fully responsive, coming soon plugin. The free version gives you everything you need to create your coming soon page, but they also offer a Pro version. The Pro version retails for $15 on a single site, $24 on 2-5 sites, and $39 for unlimited sites.

The upgrade to WP Construction Mode Pro will give you a circular countdown timer where you can showcase the date and time of your site’s launch. You can also add more content in your About sand Contact sections in the Pro version.

Website: www.smartcatdesign.net/downloads/construction-mode-v2-pro/
WordPress: www.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-construction-mode/

Designmodo WP Maintenance Mode

Designmodo’s WP Maintenance Mode has been installed over 400,000+ according to the WordPress.org page. WP Maintenance Mode is fully customizable, has a subscription form, social icons, a selection of responsive templates, SEO friendly, and allows you exclude URLs from maintenace mode.

Website: www.designmodo.com/wp-maintenance-mode/
WordPress: www.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-maintenance-mode/

Easy Coming Soon by Webriti

The Easy Coming Soon plugin by Webriti features 4 design templates, access control configuration, newsletter integration, custom thank you message, and allows you to integrate your form field with MailChimp, Constant Contact, AWeber, FeedBurner, Campaign Monitor, and Mad Mimi.

You can upgrade to the Pro version, which also gives you 1 year of support and 1 year of updates along with access to all of the 4 design templates. The Pro version for a single site costs $29.

Website: www.easycomingsoon.com
WordPress: www.wordpress.org/plugins/easy-coming-soon/

IgniteUp Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode

If you’re looking for a flexible plugin you’ll want to consider IgniteUp. They’ve released a coming soon and maintenance mode plugin with lots of great features. There’s 4 templates to choose from with the free version of their plugin. You can choose to purchase 4 additional templates that range in price from $2.99 to $5.99.

Their plugin allows you to fully customize templates, set a 503 response to notify search engines that your site is down for maintenance, whitelist IP addresses, MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, and Mailpoet integration, and show video for desktop backgrounds.

Website: www.getigniteup.com
WordPress: www.wordpress.org/plugins/igniteup/

Under Construction / Maintenance Mode from Acurax

Acurax is a design and development agency that released their Under Construction and Maintenance Mode plugin a few months ago. This plugin is free and gives you 5 themes to choose from, customize, and add content to. You can collect visitor emails by having them subscribe on your page, show a countdown timer, and set restriction settings.

Website: www.acurax.com/home.php
WordPress: www.wordpress.org/plugins/coming-soon-maintenance-mode-from-acurax/

Now that you’ve chosen a WordPress plugin to use for your coming soon, maintenance mode, or under construction page you’ll want to choose a web hosting plan that best fits your needs. PeoplesHost offers perfection hosting options to help you scale and grow your website with ease.