Soonpage Documentation

Overview

An elegant coming soon or maintenance page with countdown, email collection and social links, while you and your team keep working on the real site.

• A clean page while your site is being built
• Maintenance mode that keeps your Google rankings
• Secret link to show the site to clients

Best for: New sites, launches and agencies

Installation

1. Download soonpage-coming-soon.zip from My account › My plugins or from your order email. Do not unzip it.
2. In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add New Plugin › Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now, then Activate.
3. Open your site in a private window to see what visitors see.

Requires WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+. Works with any theme, block themes and page builders.

Features

• Three modes: Off, Coming soon, Maintenance (sends HTTP 503 + Retry-After so Google keeps your rankings)
• Logged-in editors keep seeing the real site (choose who)
• Secret link for clients: they see the real site for 30 days, without an account
• Modern glass design, 6 gradient backgrounds or your own image, your logo and accent color
• Countdown to your launch date (the page reloads by itself at the end)
• Email collection with spam protection, CSV export
• Social and contact links
• Pages that stay open (legal notice, privacy policy…)
• "Coming soon mode ON" reminder in the admin bar
• Content routes of the REST API are closed to visitors too
• Preview button, no page builder needed
• Lightweight: one HTML page, no jQuery, no external service, no tracking
• Translation-ready (French included)

For developers

Customize the plugin from your theme’s functions.php or a small plugin, without editing its files (your changes survive updates).

Filters

• soonpage_block_rest_route
• soonpage_show

add_filter( 'soonpage_block_rest_route', function ( $value ) {
	// Change $value here.
	return $value;
}, 10, 1 );

Actions

• soonpage_subscribed

Updates

Updates are free. When a new version is out, it appears in Dashboard › Updates of your WordPress site and you can install it in one click, or turn on automatic updates in Plugins. This works for the zip downloaded from your Woo-Plugins account; older copies can be replaced by downloading the latest version from My plugins. See the changelog.

Frequently asked questions