Cool Coming Soon
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Fast, dependency-free Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode: layouts, countdown, local email collector, preview links and password previews.
Cool Coming Soon lets you put up a clean, fully customizable coming-soon or maintenance page in seconds — while you (and the people you choose) keep working on the real site behind it.
It is intentionally lightweight: no page builders, no bundled frameworks, no third-party services. Just core WordPress.
Main features
- Three layouts — centered card, split screen, full background
- Build the page in-plugin, or use any existing WordPress page (blocks supported)
- Logo, heading, description, live countdown and an optional progress bar
- Colour pickers, custom CSS, and self-hosted/system fonts (no external Google Fonts request — GDPR-friendly)
- Built-in email collector (“notify me at launch”) stored locally with CSV export and optional double opt-in — no Mailchimp
- Social icons, contact link, analytics (GA4 / GTM / Meta Pixel) and Open Graph/Twitter share cards
- Auto-launch and scheduled-start maintenance windows
- Live preview, settings import/export (JSON) and multisite support
- SEO-safe: serves HTTP 503 with
Retry-Afterandnoindex - Dependency-free front-end (vanilla JS, no jQuery) and translation-ready (7 locales bundled)
Access & preview
- Temporary preview links — share a tokenized URL that grants access without a login. Set an expiry (1 hour to never), an optional usage limit, and revoke any link instantly.
- Password preview — let clients preview the live site by entering a password, no account required. Access lasts for a configurable number of hours.
- Role-based bypass — choose which logged-in roles skip the coming-soon page (Administrators only, Editors, Authors, or any logged-in user).
All preview access is granted via a short-lived, HMAC-signed cookie. Passwords are stored hashed.