WordPress Ultimate Coming Soon Page Plugin

Posted on by John

Updated – Sept 14 2011
Pro Version now available with MailChimp Integration, Mobile Support and more.

I released a WordPress plugin a couple of weeks ago called the “Ultimate Coming Soon Page” plugin. My hopes with this plugin was to create an easy way for people to add a great looking coming soon page to their WordPress site as they built it out and to collect emails form their visitor.

So far I’ve received excellent feedback from the user of it. I plan to release a pro version of the plugin in the next few weeks to be able to provide better features and support. If there’s a feature you’d like to see in this plugin please leave feedback below.

  • Tarahantske

    hey there! this is great! i use it for http://www.theblifestyle.com perfectly, but with http://www.tarahantske.com, im getting an error message at the top & bottom… do you know how to fix this? thx!!

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Try to disable your other plugins. Looks like there might be a conflict.

      • Tarahantske

        ok thanks!

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Actually thats just a warning. Just disable warning in php. Do you have “WP-DEBUG” = true in your wp-config?

  • http://twitter.com/fusertx Chris

    I was using this on two sites that earlier today work working and now they are throwing errors and I can’t even get into the admin interface. Just checked Tarahantske 2 sites and he has similar errors. Any ideas how to get past this? My sites are atrickaday.com and thedailycultivator.com

  • http://www.facebook.com/1211photo Brandon Bartee

    Hey – so I just installed your plugin on http://www.HucksPalletsLLC.com, and logged out to test it, but now I cannot get back to my /wp-admin screen to log in and get past the coming soon page! Please Help!

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Looks like there might be an issue with your wp install. To disable the
      plugin ftp into your WordPress install and just delete the plugin
      “ultimate-coming-soon-page” from your plugins folder.

      • http://www.facebook.com/1211photo Brandon Bartee

        will that not mess the site up since the plugin is now enabled?

  • Eva

    Hi, I installed your plugin a few days ago and now I am getting a warning message when I try to access the site. http://www.30thursdays.com

  • Karin

    Hey – Warning Newbie question: when setting up feedburner for the plugin, i don’t get behind “identify feed source”. what do i have to do on my site, so feedburner accepts an address?

    I am actually only aiming at collecting interested readers’ mail addresses. But seem to lack some basic understanding of what I need to do.

    Pls give me a short guide … am sure I am not the only newbie interested in this, too;-))

  • http://www.uptimeboost.com/ Thompson

    Very nice work. Would you consider adding an ‘advanced’ mode/tab or something. Basically, an option to use 503.php, or some other specified file as the template instead of requiring a user to use the built in ‘easy’ controls. This would allow me to code the PHP, HTML, CSS with total flexibility. Then using a shortcode, the feedburner submit could be placed by users where needed on their template. https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API

    Would love if you’d consider it. Yours the only plugin with an email submit that I’ve found that works right now. And the ability to have manual control over the template itself would be awesome.

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Check out the file Inc/template/template.php. this might be what you are
      looking for. If not I’ll be back next week and I’ll take a look.

      Sent from gmail mobile

      • http://www.uptimeboost.com/blog Thompson

        Thanks. I’ll take a look

  • Darla

    Hi — Thanks for sharing your plug-in. I installed version 0.5 on WordPress 3.2.1. I’d like to use it, but I get this warning at the top and bottom of the page:

    Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ‘Array’ was given in /home7/darlawri/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 405

    Everything else looks fine. Please advise.

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Sounds like another plugin might be conflicting. Try to disable all your other plugins except for the coming soon plugin. See if the error goes away. Then start reenabling your plugin until the error occurs. Let me which plugin is causing the error and I’ll see resolve the conflict in my code.

      • Darla

        Thank you. I deactivated every plug-in but yours and get the same warning message (repeated three times). While testing this, I deleted my other “site under construction” plug-in, just in case that was the problem, but that didn’t seem to be the problem.

        • http://johndturner.com John Turner

          What’s your site’s url?

          • Darla

            It’s fixed now with today’s update. Thanks so much for your excellent technical support.

          • http://johndturner.com John Turner

            No problem :)

            Sent from gmail mobile

  • http://www.amagzine.com Amanda

    I hope that will be another functions than feedburner. i would like ( if possible) to add a newsletter suscriber from mailchimp…..
    I’m a wp beginner maybe it’s possible trough custum html ?

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Yep I have a pro version coming out next week that supports MailChimp and storing emails in the wordpress database. :)

      Sent from gmail mobile

  • eva

    Great plugin. I would like to add a Facebook and Twitter link…..

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Just add it in the custom html.

  • http://www.theistudio.com Judith

    Hey, John — love this plugin! Question…. how can I prevent UCSPP from blocking non related subdirectories that are in the root with WordPress? We are working on a new site but want other areas of the server to be accessible and UCSPP is blocking all access. Thanks for all your hard work!

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Sounds like you might have a config error in your .htaccess file which controls the request to the root. My plugin plugs into WordPress and does not affect any folder.
      You can look on my plugin in the file inc/config.php line 37 and see where the redirection happens for my plugin. Also if you logged in my plugin does not redirect as well.

      Here’s a test I did on my system.
      http://screencast.com/t/wdCsopwIGLCU

      • http://www.theistudio.com Judith

        Hey, John:

        Thanks for the fast response and the video — you rock!! You are the type of plugin developer I gravitate toward working with! ;-) And why “I Love You Man” and sent you a small donation of my appreciation.

        Come to find, after double-checking that the .htaccess is as it should be that the subdirectory is password protected. Could that be why it keep defaulting to the UCPSS page?

        Thanks again!

        • http://johndturner.com John Turner

          Thx :)

          That very well could have been the case, it’s hard to tell however with out being on the system to trouble shoot. If the .htaccess was return control back to the top level validation then the plugin would have activated via WordPress.

  • dahamsta

    Great plugin, however it prints an empty TITLE tag. The content of TITLE in template-coming-soon.php should be something like the following:

    –

    I’d also like to see local storage of email addresses, Feedburner is a bit crap and I don’t want to be setting up a new account for every customer I use this for.

    Apart from those small problems, I’m very happy with it, thanks very much.

    Adam

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Thx, I’m aware the title bug and the next release will address it. If you are using a seo plugin such as wp seo or all in one seo the title should be set. I have new release coming out in about a week. Until then you can manually set it in the file inc/template-coming-soon.php on line 13.

      I have a pro version of the plugin coming out in about 2 weeks wich has local storage and MailChimp Integration along wiht some other features.

      • dahamsta

        Already have it fixed John, but thanks for the fast reply. Glad to see it’s still under development, I’ll be back for the pro version if I can get the customers to cover the cost and still make a few quid. Just bear in mind when pricing that one-pagers have to be sold cheap. The one I did today was worse, a freebie! :)

        • http://johndturner.com John Turner

          I going to A/B test a few pricing schemes. The number 1 complaint this year from the WordPress survey was plugins. I think people are ready to pay for quality support backed plugins :)

          • dahamsta

            Can’t argue with you there John. Thanks again.

  • Mike

    Hoping you can make this plugin buddypress-compatible

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      I’ll look into it. It should be that hard :)

  • Disappointed

    I tried your plug-in. I just wanted to display a simple jpg/png image and a custom background color to match the image. I didn’t work because you’re doing something to the background color to change it. I never could get it to match my image. Off to try another plug-in…

  • http://www.monazu.com Rishi Patel

    This is a great plugin! Thanks for creating it.

  • http://www.maximumbalancefoundation.com/ True2texas

    love the tool, would love to discuss a simple hyperlink

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      thx, can you give me some more details on your request :)

      • http://www.maximumbalancefoundation.com/ True2texas

        Sure it is the same as before and on the feature list, which is a email link under the logo to allow us to know who came by while under development.

        • http://johndturner.com John Turner

          I’m not sure I understand. Can you give me more details

          Sent from gmail mobile

  • Jay_147

    Hi there!! Love the plugin however once activated it doesn’t give me the option to log in as the admin when I type /wp-admin or /wp-login? I’ve got two computers so I already had wp open on one computer and the site showing on another computer in a separate browser (which is why I didn’t lock myself out, lol). I’ve deactivated the plugin to make sure this doesn’t happen. Can you help please as I’d love to use it!!! Many thanks, Jamie

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Sounds like you have another plugins that’s conflicting with my plugin. This has been the case when other people have had this issue.

      Can you let me know which theme you are using and the plugins.

      • http://www.alizesmarketing.com raquel

        Hi John,
        I have the same issue. When I’m logged in to build the site, when I click view page I see the Under construction page.
        I have several plugins installed:Breadcrumb NavXT, Twitter for WordPress, WordPress Importer. My theme is PageLines free version with some customization in header and footer. Thanks in advance for your help.
        Raquel

        • http://johndturner.com John Turner

          Thx for letting me your theme and plugins. I’ll try to recreate the issue to tonight and roll out a fix.

          • http://www.alizesmarketing.com raquel

            Thanks John, look forward

          • http://www.alizesmarketing.com raquel

            Hi John, any fix to the issue? when logged in WP I cannot view the pages, only your Under construction page, beautiful btw. I need to deactivate it to see my pages. Thanks Raquel

        • http://johndturner.com John Turner

          If you change to another theme like Twenty Ten do you still have an issue?

  • Adam

    Hi John,

    I really like the page, however, is there a way to just simply send their email to a specified email?

    Cheers,

    Adam

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      There’s no built in way right now. I’ll add it to the feature list.

  • http://twitter.com/pontovisual Alexandre Pereira

    I translate the plugin to portuguese, however, isn’t working, wich name must files be save? I put it pt_PT bus is not working. Can you help me, please. later i will put download link here, but first i msut see if everything is working fine.

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Let me try to create test translation and I will get back to you. In the mean time try naming your file:
      ultimate-coming-soon-page-pt_PT.mo

      • http://twitter.com/pontovisual Alexandre Pereira

        I already tryed John, it’s now working fine. Download link here.

        • http://johndturner.com John Turner

          Awesome! I’ll include this translation in the official plugin. I will give you credit and a link back to your site :)

          • http://twitter.com/pontovisual Alexandre Pereira

            Thank you John. If ou like i can translate another plugins.
            Oh by thw way nice job with this plugin and sorry for my bad english. :)

          • http://johndturner.com John Turner

            Will you send me your email address on my contact page and I’ll send you a preview of the pro version in about 1 week.

          • http://twitter.com/pontovisual Alexandre Pereira

            Done John.

  • Flo

    Hi there,

    I’m using your plugin and it was looking beautiful – really loved it thanks :)

    However! I was using the 2010 Theme and now I have installed the child theme 2010 Weaver and the teaser image and text are now off to the left of my page instead of being displayed in the middle… any idea why?

    Thanks

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Post a link and I’ll take look.

      Sent from gmail mobile

  • Flo
    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      There is a conflict in your themes style sheet and the coming soon stylesheet. I’ll release a bug fix tonight.

      • Flo

        Thank you John :)

  • KMS

    I love the look of the page and am thankful for it, but have had no success with setting up FeedBurner despite days of searching forums. This plugin asks for the FeedBurner address, but I can’t get FeedBurner to set up (keeps finding two addresses and won’t move past that screen, even when I select one). You say for install to click “my feeds” and continue, but if I have none and can’t set it up either, this is futile. I am ready to abandon this. All I need is for the coming soon page to collect email addresses so as to compile a mailing list, but this is proving far to complicated and time consuming. Like Adam, I just need the email addresses. Very disappointing (for my purposes and skill level.)

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      I have a pro version being released this weekend that will allow you to collect emails to your local database, plus other cools features. :)

  • George

    Hi John. I’ve quickly scanned a number of these posts looking for some insight on how to customize this plugin. No luck for me so far. I’ve tried going thru my dashboard and thru the settings but I can’t seem to upload an image successfully, even though my image size is well below the allotted size amount. Can you advise?

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      I’ll send you a screencast tonight :)

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Check out this video on how to insert an image http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJXKzJrcIJ4

  • MF

    hi,

    This plugin is not working on my wordpress blog. I upload it, went to the settings, check enable and made my settings and finally saved all my work. When I see the preview its all perfect, but then I logout ans return go see if the coming soon page work, I only see my template ( my wordpress theme). No coming soon page…please help!

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      can you post your link?

  • Agewithattitude

    Hi John, I think I successfully created a Coming Soon page but can’t figure out how to apply it so it appears when you open my url. I’m new to this so please don’t laugh! :) Thanks for your help.

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Once it’s enabled only visitors who are not logged in will see it. Log out of your admin and you should see it.

      • Agewithattitude

        Duh! That works. Thanks…. Will let you know if I have more questions. Cheers.

  • Phil Morgan

    Hi John, Great plugin. Thanks! Is there a way to add the Google Analytics script to the page in order to track stats on it? I’m in pre-launch, and I’m running a couple of promo campaigns to get people opted in for opening day alert. I’d like to be able to track response and see how many actually click through to the  Coming Soon page. :) Phil.

  • http://www.sparringmind.com Gregory Ciotti

    Really, really nice work!

    This and the upcoming theme for Startups by 8bit.io are by far the two best options I’ve seen for WordPress.

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Thx , if you have any features suggestions let me know.

  • Andre Costa

    What a great plugin.
    Newbie question here: how can I set the background image to take the whole page only once, without tiling?
    I know I have to use the largest image I can find, but is there a way to apply the largest image and have it adapt to the screen resolution of the visitor’s screen?

    Thank you!

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      I have this feature coming in the next version of the Coming Soon Pro. But you can do it with css. http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/absolute-center-vertical-horizontal-an-image/

  • Bryan Alfaro

    When I switch from portrait to landscape mode with the iPad, the image does not adjust properly to the center.  However, when switching from landscape to portrait it pops in the center as expected.  My image size is 612×400 and I added text stating “Website and Blog Coming Spring 2012″.

    This plugin works great and is very simple to setup.

    Thanks

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Do you have the Pro Version?  What’s your url?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OEPCBPEVN4OTJ4ILQZAMTQKXQ4 cheska

    I installed your plugin. It works but when i login back to backened using http://mysite.com/wp-admin, i can’t able to do that.  still the coming soon page are still showing?
    I’m using “theme my login” plugin. Do you think it conflicts here?
    please let me know how to do this… thanks!

    • http://johndturner.com John Turner

      Yes, there is a conflict with theme my login since theme my login does not use the wp-admin to do the actual login. I’ll release a fix this week :)

      • kelona hamilton

        I am having the same issue. How can I log into my wp dashboard??? i also have theme my login installed.

        • http://johndturner.com John Turner

          Theme my Login and Ultimate Coming Soon Plugin are currently not compatible. I’m working on a resolution. You’ll need to uninstall one of the two plugin via ftp.