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Simple Coming Soon Mode

Display a customizable coming soon screen with your logo, headline, and supporting text. Admins can toggle visibility without affecting their own view.

by Jackson Lee · github.com/jaxnz/wordpress-coming-soon-plugin

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/jaxnz/wordpress-coming-soon-plugin/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/jaxnz/wordpress-coming-soon-plugin ↗

Custom coming soon screen you can toggle on/off, including logo, headline, and supporting text controls.

Features

  • Toggle coming soon mode while letting admins view the live site.
  • Upload/select a logo from the media library.
  • Set a headline and rich text message (links/paragraphs supported).
  • Optional contact form on the coming soon page.
  • Built-in spam protection for contact submissions (honeypot, timing checks, rate limiting).
  • Optional Cloudflare Turnstile support for stronger bot protection.
  • Mailgun delivery support for contact submissions, including To, CC, and BCC recipients.
  • SEO metadata support for the coming soon page (title, description, Open Graph/Twitter tags, JSON-LD).
  • Optional indexable mode (HTTP 200) so search engines can index the coming soon page when desired.
  • Export and import the plugin's saved settings as JSON, including passwords and API keys.
  • Lightweight inline front-end styling; no dependency on your theme.

Installation

  1. Create a zip (optional): run ./package.sh to generate simple-coming-soon-mode.zip in this folder.
  2. Upload the zip via Plugins > Add New (or copy the folder to wp-content/plugins/simple-coming-soon-mode).
  3. Activate Simple Coming Soon Mode in the WordPress Plugins screen.

Usage

  1. Go to Settings > Coming Soon Mode.
  2. Toggle Enable Coming Soon, choose a logo, add your headline and message.
  3. (Optional) Enable Contact Form and configure Mailgun:
    • Mailgun Domain (example: mg.example.com)
    • Mailgun API Key (key-...)
    • From Name / From Email
    • To / CC / BCC recipients (comma-separated)
  4. (Optional) Configure Spam Protection:
    • Built-in protections are enabled automatically for the contact form.
    • For stronger filtering, create a Cloudflare Turnstile widget (Cloudflare Dashboard > Turnstile > Add Site) and paste the Site Key and Secret Key into the plugin settings, then enable Turnstile.
  5. (Optional) Configure SEO & Crawling:
    • Add an SEO title/description for search and social previews.
    • Enable Allow Search Indexing if you want Google to index the coming soon page itself (this switches the response from HTTP 503 to HTTP 200).
  6. (Optional) Use Export & Import to download the plugin settings as JSON or restore them later.
  7. Save changes. Visitors see the coming soon page; admins can still browse the site normally.

Export / Import Notes

  • The export contains the plugin's full saved settings, including the access password, Mailgun API key, and Turnstile keys.
  • Importing replaces the current plugin settings with the values from the export file.
  • The selected logo is stored as a WordPress attachment ID. If you import onto a different site, the logo will only restore if that attachment ID exists there too.