WordPress Coming Soon Plugin: Why I Love It (and You Should Too)
The WordPress Coming Soon Plugin by CSSJockey.com is one of the niftiest little WP plugins that I have come across in quite some time and although it is very simple and elegant I think that you will love what it can do for you just as much as I do.
I actually just stumbled across this plugin just a few days ago as I was looking for a coming soon page to put up on the weight training site that John and I will be working on in the near future (and launching on 2/15/09). Of course, the domain name is WeightTraining.com and as its a great keyword domain name you can expect to see some “Case Study Friday” posts in the future covering our development efforts.
Anyway, you can read all of the features yourself by visiting the the link above but I just wanted to point out one little thing that I absolutely love about this plugin and that is –
As soon as you activate the coming soon page then anyone who is not logged in as a WordPress admin will see only the coming soon page while you and anyone else who is logged in as a WP admin will see your site live and 100% functional. This allows you to fix bugs and test the site out in a live environment to your hearts content without worrying about visitors seeing a partially finished site or getting turned off by bugs.
I have to say I wish that I would have come across this plugin a while ago as I could have certainly put it to good use but learn from my mistakes and if you are planning on spending some time developing an in depth/customized WordPress site (or even just doing some maintenance on an existing WordPress site) then head on over to check out the WordPress Coming Soon Plugin by CSSJockey.com right now!
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Perfect… Thanks for the link!!
This is going to be a big help. For me its been the biggest problem I deal with in putting up a new site. I’m sure coders already knew how to do this but a professional plant grower doesn’t
Nice plugin. I like it. I will dowload it and test it out for my future developments as well. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for your appreciation. I am glad you found what you were looking for and wish you both a great success for your future venture.
Would appreciate any feedback or suggestions you have for us to improve it or create better plugins in near future for the WordPress community.
Feel free to drop a line at http://support.cssjockey.com
Regards,
Mohit Aneja
CSSJockey.com
I have to admit, this plug-in is a great find.
I always was in a rush to spit out the site, especially when working on new development on a trafficed domain, which almost always resulted in errors and omissions and multiple revisions.
This one provides peace of mind and email capture to boot.
The under construction sign turns me off though. It’s so 90’s.
Thanks for the info, guys.
Thanks for the link. There’s also a pretty nice “coming soon” theme available here. Just activate the theme and you’re set.
http://web2feel.com/tempskin/