Whether you are designing a brand new website or a blog or a mobile app, it is important to greet your visitors in a proper manner. In today's world, a really simple preview is enough to communicate what your service is all about. Your potential customers may think that you are out of business seeing a broken website, whereas you are redesigning your web pages.

A Brief Guide on Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode plugin

Coming soon page is often underrated but in fact, it is the first thing you have to do on a brand new WordPress site or for any website for that matter. Coming soon page is no more just a simple page which informs that your website is coming soon. It is a medium from which you can collect the emails of potential customers and also build the hype for your about to launch products. Moreover, an under construction website without a coming soon page looks like a mess and it directly hurts your brand's reputation.

Thankfully, it's super easy to put on a great looking coming soon page on WordPress using the plugins. There are over a dozen plugins for creating a coming soon page. Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode plugin by Web Factory is a special coming soon plugin as it comes with lots of other handy features.

In this article, we'll explore the features of Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode plugin and also see how easy it is to create stunning coming soon and maintenance mode pages using it. Let's dive in without any delay!

Features: Ease of Use

Coming Soon plugin is simple and intuitive to use. It has all the features that you and it has no complications involved. The process is straightforward and it just takes a few minutes to set up a grand coming soon page on your website.

It has more than 650,000 themes for free. It's easy to find a stunning theme which blows your visitors away. All these themes are professional, responsive and easily customizable themes that are suitable for various kinds of businesses both online and offline.

Email Box

You can start collecting the emails of potential customers even before your website is ready. The coming soon page also acts like a landing page and the plugin supports CRM, webinar, autoresponder and other marketing software that will help you to grab the customers. Moreover, you can also integrate Zapier using this plugin.

SEO

You need not to wait for the whole website till you complete building the website to get the traffic. It's great to get traffic from day one. Coming Soon plugin uses new-age SEO techniques, built-in tests, guidelines and checks that'll provide you will all the opportunity to position your website on the top place in search results.

Drag and Drop

There are over 10 modules in the drag and drop builder. They can be used to customize the page according to your requirements. It is super simple to use the 10 modules. You can create animation, transparent backgrounds and many other things using Drag and Drop Builder.

You can also choose an animated video background or an image background from the vast library of over 400,00 images.

Design

Probably there is no other plugin in the WordPress repository which gives the provision to customize the coming soon as this plugin. You can design the layout, background, logo, header, content, video, progress bar, map, subscription form, social icons, countdown timer, etc.

Instructions for Creating a Coming Soon Page

Step 1: Login your WordPress account and on WordPress Dashboard to the Plugins menu.

Step 2: Under the Plugins menu, click on the Add New button.

Step 3: Search for Minimal Coming Soon in the search box. You'll see the plugin in the search results.

Step 4: Click on the Install button and click on the Activate button once the installation is completed.

Step 5: Go to Plugin Settings and click on the Maintenance mode. Choose the theme which best suits your blog. Free users can access only a few themes.

Step 6: Click on the Design tab. Here you can change the background image of the page. You can also upload your favicon and logo. There are tons of other options which you can use to make your maintenance mode or coming soon page look more attractive.

Step 7: As mentioned earlier, Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode is not just a typical coming soon plugin. You can integrate email box on the coming soon page. However, only pro users can add email function using the plugin. If you have purchased the pro version, go to the email box settings and follow the instructions there to integrate it with the MailChimp plugin.

Step 8: Once you complete all the settings, enable the Maintenance mode on your blog. Save changes.

Head on to your website and you'll see a stunning coming soon page! As you have seen, it is extremely easy to put on a beautiful coming soon page on your blog. It takes only a few minutes and the best part is you can also integrate it with the email subscription box.

Wrapping up...

Overall, Coming Soon and Maintenance mode plugin is a package of brilliant features which are useful for the WordPress users. The free version is cool, but the Pro version is awesome. It has received the positive reviews on curated WordPress repositaries like Tidy Repo. It is also a great tool in the web developer's arsenal, as they can quickly put on a Maintenance Mode page while they are developing the website.

It works without any issues on all the popular WordPress themes. The plugin has a dedicated support team who would love to help you. Their support forum is active and you get answers to your questions in a short time.

We hope our guide has helped you on how to use Coming Soon and Maintenance mode plugin. Keep visiting this space as we'll introduce you to some more interesting plugins in our upcoming writeups.

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