{"id":5764,"date":"2020-01-10T16:26:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T10:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/?p=5764"},"modified":"2025-02-03T17:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T11:35:26","slug":"how-to-add-coming-soon-page-to-a-website-under-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/how-to-add-coming-soon-page-to-a-website-under-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add \u201cComing Soon Page\u201d to a website under construction?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Coming-Soon-1.png\" alt=\"Add 'coming soon' info to your website with a plugin \" class=\"wp-image-5765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Coming-Soon-1.png 560w, https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Coming-Soon-1-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><figcaption>Coming Soon Plugin <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New websites are budding up like mushrooms. Once a domain name is purchased and hosted with a WordPress or some other application it, the website starts appearing for people with a default theme in it. However, the default theme may not go along with the domain name and concept of the website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may look chaotic to the visitors. People may wonder \u2018why would someone visit a website when it is still in the making\u2019? The people who want to buy a new domain name keep trying for new names. If some one tries for your domain name which is under construction, they may visit the site which has a domain name that doesn\u2019t suit the theme. Your friends also may visit the new site out of curiosity. Whoever wants to check the website may get annoyed if it is out of proportion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To avoid this awkward situation, you can notify people that the website is under construction and will open soon. Budding entrepreneurs would really appreciate such concept but many of them don\u2019t know how to add this to a website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two ways to have this feature on your website. You can install a plugin or some themes have this as a feature in their layouts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> Through plugin: <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming Soon Page, Under Construction &amp; Maintenance Mode by SeedProd is the most famous plugin in this segment with one million plus active installations. If you install the plugin, it will notify the users as \u2018Get Ready\u2026Something Really Cool Is Coming Soon! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to the\ndashboard of your website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/add_new.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5780\" width=\"263\" height=\"292\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Plugins &#8212; Add New &#8212; Search for \u2018Coming Soon Page, Under Construction &amp; Maintenance Mode by SeedProd\u2019 in the plugin repository page <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"554\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/coming_soon.png\" alt=\"The icon indicates a high speed rocket\" class=\"wp-image-5781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/coming_soon.png 554w, https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/coming_soon-300x133.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><figcaption>The coming soon plugin icon <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Install and activate <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"577\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Enable_coming_soon_.png\" alt=\"Save changes after selecting the options \" class=\"wp-image-5782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Enable_coming_soon_.png 577w, https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Enable_coming_soon_-300x128.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><figcaption>choose an option <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Choose among the following options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Disabled <\/li><li>Enable coming soon mode<\/li><li>Enable maintenance mode <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> option and click on save all changes. That\u2019s it! The website will be seen with the \u2018coming soon\u2019 message for the visitors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Through themes<\/strong>: <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Many themes have inbuilt templates with coming soon messages. Choose the template you like and save it to get an informative page on your site while it is under construction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is easy to install a plugin during the construction mode. Once the build is complete, the plugin can be de-activated or deleted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New websites are budding up like mushrooms. Once a domain name is purchased and hosted with a WordPress or some other application it, the website starts appearing for people with a default theme in it. However, the default theme may not go along with the domain name and concept of the website. It may look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[255,256,257,174,186],"class_list":["post-5764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-comingsoon","tag-comingsoonpage","tag-comingsoonplugin","tag-wordpressplugin","tag-wordpresswebsites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}