While your website is under development, you might want to enable the coming soon mode to notify your visitors that your website is not ready to release yet. You want to add a countdown timer and an email opt-in form to collect the email addresses of your visitors so that once the development process is done, you can send a mass email to tell your visitors that your site is ready.
In WordPress, you can easily enable the coming soon mode using a plugin. We have collected the best coming soon plugins that you can use to enable coming soon mode on your WordPress site.
The main purpose of enabling the coming soon mode is to notify your visitors that your website is not ready to release. That said, the ability to add an email opt-in form and connect it (the form) to an email marketing tool such as Mailchimp or MailerLite is one of the features you need to notice when choosing a coming soon plugin.
Here are some of the best WordPress coming soon plugins.
1. Brizy
Looking for a free coming soon plugin? If yes then Brizy is one of the options you can opt to. Brizy itself is basically not a plugin that is designed specifically to be a coming soon plugin. Instead, it is a page builder plugin. Brizy comes with a feature that you can use to turn your site into both coming soon mode and maintenance mode.
You can go to the Brizy settings page to enable the coming soon mode. Before enabling the coming soon mode or maintenance mode, you need to create a page using the Brizy visual editor first. When creating the page, you can add elements like form, countdown timer, image, video, and so on.
Brizy itself is released as a freemium plugin and the feature to enable the coming soon mode is available on both the free version and the pro version. Unfortunately, the free version doesn’t allow you to connect your form with any email marketing tool.
2. Elementor
If you use Elementor on your WordPress site, you don’t need to install a new plugin to enable the coming soon mode or maintenance mode as Elementor comes with a built-in feature to enable those modes. You can go to the Elementor settings page to enable the modes. Read this article to learn more.
Same as Brizy, Elementor is not also designed specifically to become a coming soon plugin. It is a page builder that you can use to create beautiful pages on your WordPress site without dealing with CSS or HTML. After creating the page, you can go to the Elementor settings page to turn your site into a coming soon mode.
You can also add any element to your coming soon page just like Brizy. However, the free version of Elementor doesn’t allow you to add a form element. You need to upgrade to the pro version to add a form element and connect it with Mailchimp or your favorite email marketing tool. Learn more Elementor Free vs Elementor Pro.
3. Verde
If you prefer a paid solution of a coming soon plugin then Verde is one of the plugins you can opt to. The plugin, which is available on CodeCanyon for $16, allows you to add an email opt-in form to your coming soon page and connect it with popular email marketing tools like Mailchimp and Campaign Monitor. The plugin is integrated with FontAwesome to allow you to add unique icons to your page.
4. Arnica
If you are looking for a coming soon plugin that supports integration with Mailchimp then Arnica might is the plugin you are looking for. You can add an email opt-in form to your coming soon page and connect with your Mailchimp account via an API key. I
n addition to email opt-in form, you can also add a countdown element to your page. Arnica offers three style variations to make your coming soon looks more eye-catching:
- Fullscreen single image backround
- Fullscreen image slideshow background
- Fullscreen YouTube video background
Furthermore, Arnica is integrated with Google Fonts and FontAwesome to allow you to add beautiful, free fonts and icons.
5. IgniteUp
IgniteUp is one of the best options if you are looking for a free coming plugin that offers Mailchimp integration. You don’t need to create the coming soon page from scratch as IgniteUp offers premade templates you can choose from. The free version of IgniteUp comes with 5 premade templates. T
o get more templates, you can upgrade to the pro version. IgniteUp has no fancy editor like Brizy or Elementor as it is not a page builder plugin, but you can customize the components like text color, background color, background image, social media icon colors, and so on. When the coming soon is enabled, you can set the users with a certain role to access your website.
6. Coming Soon and Maintenance by Colorlib
As you can guess, this plugin is developed by Colorlib, a WordPress theme developer company. The Coming Soon and Maintenance by Colorlib is another great solution if you are looking for a free coming soon plugin that supports integration with Mailchimp. The plugin itself allows you to add the following elements to your coming soon page:
- Email opt-in form
- Countdown
- Text
- Social media icons
The Coming Soon and Maintenance by Colorlib also supports integration with Google Analtyics. There are 15 premade coming page templates you can choose from. The plugin itself makes use of the WordPress theme customizer (Appearance -> Customize) to customize the coming soon page.
7. SeedProd
SeedProd is one of the most popular coming soon plugins, with over 1 million active installations. You can use it for free although with limited enough features. The free version of SeedProd doesn’t allow you to integrate your coming soon page with any email marketing tool. Plus, you can’t select any template. Meaning that you need to customize the page yourself.
You can customize the coming soon page using SeedProd editor, which offers a live preview feature. You can set things like the background color or image, text color, font family, and so on. SeedProd comes integrated with Unsplash to allow you to add images to your page for free. Unfortunately, the integration is only available on the pro version.
8. Coming soon and Maintenance mode
Coming soon and Maintenance mode is a plugin developed by WpDevArt, a WordPress plugin developer company. It is also a feature-rich coming plugin, but you need to use the pro version to unlock features like the ability to disable the coming mode to logged users, the ability to change the text color and typography, the ability to integrate your coming soon page with an email marketing tool and so on.
9. Fancy Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode
Fancy Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode is another great option if you are looking for a free coming soon plugin that allows you to integrate your Mailchimp account with the aim to collect email addresses of your visitors. The plugin has no editor to edit the coming soon page. Instead, it makes use of the WordPress theme customizer to customize the page just like Coming Soon and Maintenance by Colorlib.
You can set things like the background, the development progress indicator (in a line), and social media accounts. There is no option to customize the typography. You can’t even set the text color.
10. Minimal Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode
Minimal Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode is a feature-rich coming plugin developed by WebFactory. It is released as a freemium plugin with the free version allows you to connect your page with your Mailchimp account. The plugin offers premade customizable templates. After applying a certain template, you can change the elements like background color, text color, button size, typography, and so on.
If you use the pro version, you can also apply an animation effect to your page. The plugin also offers an option to ignore the coming soon mode to the logged users. There is also an option to integrate your website with Google Analytics.
11. Rocket Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Page
Rocket Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Page is a plugin that you can use to enable both the maintenance mode and the coming soon mode on your WordPress. This plugin is especially a great option if you are looking for a free plugin that supports Mailchimp integration.
There are no premade templates available, but you can set components like background color, heading color, text color, link color, hover color, and typography. Also, you can add the following elements to your coming so on page:
- Email opt-in form
- Progress bar
- Countdown timer
- Social media accounts
12. Coming Soon by Dazzler
Coming Soon by Dazzler is another plugin that you can use to enable the coming soon mode on your WordPress site. It has a built-in design tool that you can use to set things like background image, background color, typography, text color, and social media icons color.
If you have CSS knowledge, you can also add your design via CSS as the plugin supports custom CSS. You can also connect your page with Mailchimp, GetResponse, Campaign Monitor, and Madmini, but you need to upgrade to the pro version to do so.
13. EZP Coming Soon Page
You can also use EZP Coming Soon Page to enable the coming soon mode on your WordPress. The plugin comes with a simple design tool where you can set the background image, text color, and other components of the page. You can use EZP Coming Soon Page for free with an option to upgrade to the pro version to unlock more features like Mailchimp integration, Google Fonts integration, the ability to apply an animation effect, and so on.
The free version of EZP Coming Soon Page also allows you to collect email addresses of your visitors (it has a built-in tool to manage the email addresses list). But, you need to take some extra steps to use the email addresses to send emails as the plugin has no built-in feature to send emails.
