How to Create Coming Soon Pages in WordPress

Do you want to launch a website or a blog? or Do you just want to create a coming soon page for the people to tell them about your upcoming site? You need to design a beautiful coming soon page for your WordPress site or blog. But do you know how to create coming soon page for your website?

Pre-launch or coming soon page is a strategy that webmasters run before they complete launch the content of their websites. The coming soon page helps you to get attention and spread the word about your upcoming project.

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Today I am going to share about how you can create a beautiful coming soon page using Under Construction page Pugin for WordPress.

Under Construction page Pugin for WordPress

To create a beautiful coming soon page in WordPress, you need to use a plugin which can make this job quite easy for you. WordPress Under Construction page plugin is here for you.

Under Construction, page plugin is a plugin which comes with both free and paid versions. You can get it for $70.

Features of under construction plugin:

• beginner-friendly, simple & fast
• new designs 2 times a month
• 130k+ active users, with 10k/month growth
• support for most caching plugins so there's no need to manually purge
• over 1000 five-star reviews
• email support
• optimized for SEO
• various social media icons available
• Google Analytics support

How to create coming soon page in Wordpress?

• Download this plugin and activate it.
• Now go to the Settings page to manage the look and behavior of under construction page or coming soon page.

You will see 6 tabs, such as; Main, Design, Content, Access, Support, and Pro.

Main tab:

It is actually the main tab of under construction page plugin. Here you will see options to on/off Under construction mode, Prevent Search Engines from Indexing the Temporary Site, Automatic End Date & Time, Google Analytics Tracking and Reset Settings.

Design Tab:

Under design tab, you will various templates or designs that you can use as a free or pro user. To use any of these WordPress themes, you just need to click on the theme.

You can also use your CSS code to manage fonts, margins, color etc.

Content tab:

The content tab is there for you to help you easily add the content on your coming soon or under construction page. You can easily write Title, Description, Headlines, Content and also add various social media buttons such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Linkedin, and YouTube.

The best thing is that all the content is SEO optimized and it will easily index.

Access tab:

You may have many moderators or admins on your blog. You can easily allow them to access or block their access by using Access tab options.

All you need is to choose the user role to define his access to the site.

Pro tab:

If you want to use the premium features then pro tab is for you. You can easily build coming soon pages, under construction pages and landing pages faster by becoming a pro user.

PRO version offers:

1. Drag and Drop page builder
2. Improved access control
3. Custom links with custom expire rules
4. MailChimp and Zapier support
5. Support for local database autoresponder
6. Import and Export settings
7. Unsplash API integration - get access to more than 200k photos
8. Newsletter module- Countdown timer and much more!

• Go through all the tabs to create what you need in your coming soon page.
• Now Go to Main tab and click on "On" to activate your coming soon page.

Final Words:

Landing pages and coming soon pages are now an important part of webmasters arsenal. I have used under construction page plugin to create coming soon pages and landing pages on many blogs. They worked in a great way with no stress.

You can easily setup coming soon page with the help of under construction page plugin.

Have you ever used under construction page or coming soon page? Do you want to try it?

Do share your experience? If you have any question, feel free to ask me via comments.