WordPress Plugin – Custom Coming Soon Pages

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Custom Coming Soon Pages WordPress Plugin allows you to display a Customized Coming Soon Page or Under Construction page to normal visitors or regular members of your WordPress based website or Blog – while the Site Administrators see the fully functional website with the applied theme and active plugins as well as a fully functional Dashboard.

Custom Coming Soon Pages WordPress Plugin will enable you to perform upgrades, fix nasty bugs or preview jazzy enhancements to your design live on your WordPress based website or blog without letting your users and normal visitors see crappy error messages or changes to the design until you really want them to.

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Domain Age is a significant metric that is considered by many Search Engines among other factors while ranking your website. So if you have a unused domain, you can use the Custom Coming Soon Pages Plugin on a fresh WordPress install instead of your web host’s landing page. Restrict your host from pointing your domain to an ad-farm when you can make a mark with a Coming Soon Page customized to project your Brand even before you launch.

Custom Coming Soon Pages Plugin is also capable of displaying a Count Down Timer if you plan to launch on a Specific Date. You can also let your users subscribe to your website so that they can get notified via email whenever you launch. Integrated Twitter and Facebook features lets your visitors follow you on these social networks until you launch.

Features »

Controlled Access:
Only Normal Visitors and Regular Members will see the Custom Coming Soon Page. If the Site Administrators are logged in, they will not see the Custom Coming Soon Page but will be able to view the fully functional blog with the current applied theme and active plugins as well as full access to the WordPress Dashboard.
Customizable Content:
Customize the Title of the Coming Soon page as well as the coming soon message that is displayed from the Plugin Settings in your Dashboard.
Customizable Backgrounds:
Specify any color for the background or use an image of your choice from the Plugin Settings in your WordPress dashboard.
Create your own Custom Coming Soon Page templates:
You can create your own Custom Coming Soon Page templates using xHTML / CSS / PHP and plug them into the plugin for use.
Countdown Timer:
Going to launch your website on a Specific Date? Specify it in the Plugin Settings and Display a cool Count Down Timer on your Custom Coming Soon Page.
Know-When-We-Launch:
Let your users subscribe to your website and get notified via email when you launch.
Social Networks:
Integrated Twitter and Facebook features lets your visitors follow you on these social networks until you launch. Just specify your user ID in the plugin settings in your WordPress Dashboard.

Download Custom Coming Soon Pages WordPress Plugin by CSSJockey now !

Installation »

Extract the Plugin Folder from the downloaded ZIP file.
Upload cj-coming-soon folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin from the ‘Plugins’ page in your Dashboard.
Configure the plugin from Settings > CJ Coming Soon options page.

Plugin Support »

Report any Bugs or Request more Features at our Support Forums.

I believe you’ll find this plugin useful. Please let me know how do you like it. I’d appreciate your valuable feedback on Custom Coming Soon Page WordPress Plugin so please use the comments form below and keep your inputs coming…

Author: CSSJockey

Mohit is a freelance web designer/developer based in Chandigarh India. After serving some big brands like DELL, Convergys he founded CSSJockey.com in Jan 01, 2009. Follow on Twitter | Connect via Facebook | Read more »

158 Responses to “WordPress Plugin – Custom Coming Soon Pages”

08 Mar, 2010

Jason @ DEMAND! Racing says:

Love the plugin, but can’t get it to work!
Installed, activated, and enabled.
What I am doing wrong?

http://www.demand-racing.com

Thank you!

10 Mar, 2010

CSSJockey says:

I see a custom xHTML page installed on this website and I’m not able to find WordPress folders on this domain. Are you sure you have WordPress installed on this website.

08 Mar, 2010

Ali Hussain says:

Awesome plugin. Thanks for the freebie

08 Mar, 2010

Alvaro Garrido Z says:

Excellent! works like a charm! congrats! also beautiful site! I translate to spanish, easy to understand and full of features!

08 Mar, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Thanks, I am glad you like it

05 Mar, 2010

Ray says:

I installed this plugin and activated it but it didn’t work. I have it installed in one of my sub domoins. Do you think thats the reason why?

06 Mar, 2010

CSSJockey says:

@Ray: I hope you have activated this plugin from the Plugin Settings. Let me know if you get it working.

01 Mar, 2010

Clara says:

Hi,

Thanks for the great plugin! I tried this at locally and worked great but then when I uploaded to my site, I couldn’t get the xhtml option to work. It says the theme file index.php doesn’t exist but it does.

Thanks for any help!

02 Mar, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Hi Clara, Please share the site where you are installing this Plugin so I can check for any errors.

23 Feb, 2010

free plugins says:

i must say, it was interesting to browse trough so many great plugins on your blog. I must bookmark your site now as the stuff here on your site looks to be very helpful.

20 Feb, 2010

eyal says:

Hi,

Thank you for this plugin.

I have tried to set it up and at first it worked.

However, now all you can see is the text and the countdown.

I have a different image then your contentbg.png which i have placed but I can’t see it.

All I want to do is to change the picture to my contentbg.png

What am I doing wrong ?

Thank you

Eyal

everything is enabled and running.

20 Feb, 2010

eyal says:

HI,
I did a new install.
I have put on my own file name contentbg.png and placed it in every image folder (just in case because didn’t know where to put it).

The moment I do it – all i get is text and not image.

Please help me

Thank you

20 Feb, 2010

CSSJockey says:

You can specify the image URL in settings, no matter where its is uploaded on your server. Update the Plugin settings and specify the URL there itself.

20 Feb, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Try restore defaults and update the image URL under Plugin Settings.

20 Feb, 2010

eyal says:

thanx but which one ?
which of the images should i modify and direct too ?

23 Feb, 2010

CSSJockey says:

There’s an option for both logo and background image in Plugin Settings. Read the info provided with the options and update accordingly.

20 Feb, 2010

eyal says:

all is good.

can I also add a link to click and play music track ?

22 Feb, 2010

CSSJockey says:

@eyal: If you know xHTML/CSS and a bit of PHP coding you can edit the templates as per your requirements.

18 Feb, 2010

Toni says:

You can use http://LaunchSoon.com if you don’t have WordPress.

For inspiration you can check out the gallery:
http://LaunchSoon.com/gallery.php

19 Feb, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Its nice, thanks for sharing. Hope you can get a free version of this page as well

12 Feb, 2010

Steve says:

Hello, I’m using your plugin and it’s working fine right now; I have two questions:

-Is there a way to set it up so that only admins can login using the footer? If the footer is not displayed, how do admins log back in?

-Can the e-mail notification feature be disabled?

Thanks

12 Feb, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Hi Steve, You can login to your website admin panel by typing the URL in address bar http://www.Your-Website.com/wp-admin. Currently disabling the email notification feature is not available however, its good to have this option so I’ll include this in future release.

11 Feb, 2010

Kelley Zhou says:

I’m logged in as administrator but I still see the Coming Soon page like everyone else instead of the fully functional blog. Am I overlooking a setting or something?

08 Feb, 2010

Softsahre says:

Nice plugin, will need to install.

05 Feb, 2010

Jeannie says:

I have installed the plugin and updated all the settings. It is also activated in Plugins however, it is not working. I’ve logged out, used another browser, etc. and it is still not working. Any suggestions? Much thanks in advance.

06 Feb, 2010

CSSJockey says:

I hope you have enabled it from the Plugin settings as well. Please send me the URL so I can check and get back to you with more inputs.

06 Feb, 2010

Jeannie says:

Yes, it has been activated. When you say “Plugin Settings” I am assuming you mean where all the Plugins are listed in the admin panel, correct? If so, it is activated there. You can click on my photo for the URL but I will list it for you as well: http://www.pgnew.com.

Thanks so much and have a great day.

08 Feb, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Jeannie, This plugin needs to be enabled under Settings >> Custom Coming Soon. I hope this will help.

09 Feb, 2010

Jeannie says:

That was it!!! Thank you.

04 Feb, 2010

Robert says:

Great plugin, thanks! I have always been looking for a flexible custom coming soon page like this one!

Just one suggestion: please include in your themes as by now, the site is not tracked via Google Analytics, clicky…
I had to manually insert the tracking code into /themes/default/index.php

It would also be great if you could choose a custom background without timer.

05 Feb, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Sure Robert, I’ll try to include these options in up-coming releases. Thank you for your suggestions.

19 Jan, 2010

as3k says:

Hi I installed this plugin on a site im building and the email feature will not send the emails from the form. in the emails it sends the from email is “please” any pointers as to how to get this working again??

16 Jan, 2010

manda says:

hi, tried adding the plug-in to the site, but it’s not even loading. the basic theme is showing instead. i’m using the latest version of wordpress. help?

18 Jan, 2010

CSSJockey says:

I hope you have enabled it from the plug-in settings page. Also this plugin will show the Coming Soon page to users who are not logged in so you can test it opening in another browser or simply logging out from the WordPress Dashboard. Let me know if you still face any issues, here at http://support.cssjockey.com.

13 Jan, 2010

T Miller says:

Using latest install of WP and getting white screen with:

Error 500 – Internal server error
An internal server error has occured!
Please try again later.

15 Jan, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Please share the link so I can check and research on the same.

11 Jan, 2010

SBA says:

I tried to use your plugin on a new site, but it did not give me custom background, the time I set and the email submission stayed on the screen forever (had to cancel). Could this be caused by a conflict with the ‘maintenance mode’ plugin. Of course I had deactivated maintenance plugin before I activated yours. Any ideas???

12 Jan, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Please de-activate any cache plugins if you are using. Try to restore settings to default and save them again, This solution was provided by one of the users. I hope it works with you as well. Do let me know the status.

I will be releasing an update soon and will take care of the known issues so far.

10 Jan, 2010

RUSev says:

Thank you!
Is useful when making new project. Earlier to this effect used simple HTML-stub.

08 Jan, 2010

Jerret says:

Doesn’t seem to work in WP 9.1

Settings changed. All I hear are crickets.

08 Jan, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Hi Jerret, I’ve been busy for last few weeks.. will update the plugins asap.

08 Jan, 2010

Charles Brindle says:

Email submission form crashes in IE 8 on WP 2.9.1, haven’t tested any other IE versions though. Works fine in FireFox at the least.

08 Jan, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Hi Charles, I’ve been busy for last few weeks. Will update the plugin asap.

07 Jan, 2010

alohabobs says:

I am interested in using the plug in for a static page with in my existing blog. For example I am building a store section on my wordress blog and would like a static registration page, will this work?

08 Jan, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Currently this plugin shows the Coming Soon page on all pages however, will try my best to include this feature as well.

01 Jan, 2010

Jorge says:

Great plug-in especially to launch a new website. It give anticipation =)

30 Dec, 2009

Fujilives says:

this is great!

29 Dec, 2009

Alex says:

I’ve spent the best part of an hour playing around with this to get it to work but it’s just not responding no matter what I do.

The two main issues I have with the plugin are that it won’t display my own logo (no matter which URL / service I host it with) and the countdown timer always shows 54 days, 10 hours, 6 minutes & 20 seconds.

I’ve altered themes, played with the plugin code. It just doesn’t want to work. It’s a fantastic idea but for now I’d try to find another solution or build your own landing page (which still makes it possible to work in Wordpress behind that page).

30 Dec, 2009

Fox says:

I agree. Doesn’t work and the support forums are of little help

23 Dec, 2009

ThisGuy says:

FOR ANYONE OUT THERE HAVING ISSUES WITH THIS PLUGIN:

Try changing your site’s ‘Appearance->theme’ to the default one (WordPress Default 1.6 by Michael Heilemann). However, be aware that once you do so, the options you have saved under the ‘Settings->CJ Coming Soon’ WILL BE LOST and you WILL HAVE TO RE-ENTER ALL YOUR OPTIONS AGAIN! So make sure you remember/write them down somewhere before you change the theme. Afterward, everything should work properly.

Hope this helps and THANK YOU CJ for your wonderful plugin!