Create a coming soon page or maintenance mode screen with 15 responsive templates, countdown timer, MailChimp subscribe form, and social media links.
As of April 2026, Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib is a WordPress coming soon plugin with 7.0K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 42 reviews. It has been downloaded 277K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 30% this week. Support resolution rate: 50%. Top alternative: Maintenance.
Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib is a free WordPress plugin that lets you display a professional coming soon page, under construction page, or maintenance mode screen to your visitors while you work on your site behind the scenes. Set it up in minutes directly from the WordPress Live Customizer — no coding required.
Choose from 15 fully responsive coming soon templates, each pre-designed with modern layouts and fully customizable through the Customizer. Add your own logo, background image, heading text, countdown timer, and social media links. Collect email subscribers with the built-in MailChimp integration so you can build your audience before launch day.
Logged-in users can browse and edit the site normally while non-logged-in visitors see only the coming soon or maintena…
The only thing missing is the option to indicate excluded pages or IPs.
Easy, useful & do the job
Facile à installer. J’utilise ce plugging depuis plusieurs années car il est très facile de modifier les templates .php pour obtenir exactement la page dont j’ai besoin.
I’m new to WordPress and all that goes with it. This plugin makes it easy to place a coming soon page as I build my site, which will probably take much longer than it should, but I am learning as I go. Grateful for something so easy for a change.
Thank you for implementing such functional, yet easy plugin to use. Does what it’s meant to do, and does it well with much complication.
Well appreciated!
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Updated: Minimum PHP version raised to 7.4 (compatible up to PHP 8.5)
Updated: Minimum WordPress version raised to 6.0
Fixed: PHP 8.x strict type comparison warnings throughout
Fixed: Uninitialized variables causing PHP warnings
Fixed: Missing capability checks on AJAX handlers
Fixed: Input sanitization on superglobal access
Fixed: wp_enqueue_scripts() misuse (was using hook name as function)
Fixed: Trailing spaces in default settings array keys
Fixed: Missing return value in review check method
Fixed: Template path validation for security
Improved: Proper escaping of AJAX nonces in inline scripts
Improved: Uninstall cleanup now removes plugin options and transients
Improved: Updated Google Analytics placeholder to GA4 format
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