Coming Soon Amesso

A coming soon / maintenance mode plugin for WordPress. Four templates, no bloat.

What it does

• Blocks visitors from seeing your site while you work on it
• Shows a nice page instead (pick from 4 designs)
• Collects emails from people who want to know when you're ready
• Countdown timer, progress bar, custom colors, all that good stuff

Features

4 templates - Modern, Minimal, Creative, Business. Pick one, or add your own CSS on top.

Countdown - Set a launch date, it'll tick down and pop a "We're Live!" when time's up.

Email collection - Built-in subscriber list. No Mailchimp required (but you can hook one up if you want). Export CSV from the admin.

Social links - Add Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, whatever. Shows up on the frontend page.

Maintenance mode - 503 status toggle so search engines know you're coming back, not gone.

reCAPTCHA v3 - Optional, invisible to users. Keeps bots off your subscriber list.

Access control - Admins can see the site normally. Pick which roles bypass the coming soon page.

Analytics - Drop in your Google Analytics (or whatever) code. It'll load on the coming soon page.

Webhook - Got a Mailchimp, SendGrid, or custom endpoint? Plug in the URL and new subscribers get POSTed there automatically.

Quick setup

1. Install and activate
2. Go to Coming Soon in your admin menu
3. Flip the toggle to enable
4. Pick a template, set your title/text
5. Done. Preview it to see how it looks.

Requirements

• WordPress 5.8+
• PHP 8.0+
• MySQL 5.6+

Installation

Download the zip, upload through WordPress admin, activate. Or clone the repo and drop the folder into /wp-content/plugins/.

Changelog

1.1.0

• Social links UI + frontend rendering (facebook, twitter, github, etc.)
• 503 maintenance mode toggle for search engines
• Google reCAPTCHA v3 protection on email subscription
• Webhook support (Mailchimp, SendGrid, custom endpoints)
• Rate limiting on subscribe endpoint (5 requests / 15 min per IP)
• Admin notification emails now rate-limited (1 per email per 24h)
• Security hardening: host header sanitization, defense-in-depth CSS output escaping
• Template refactor: options loaded once, not on every render
• Removed dead upload_media AJAX hook (was unregistered → fatal error)

1.0.0

• First release. 4 templates, email collection, countdown, progress bar, SEO fields, custom CSS, role-based bypass.