SoftGlaze Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon

Description

SoftGlaze — Coming Soon Pages, Maintenance Mode & Pre-Launch Lead Capture for WordPress

SoftGlaze Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon was built around one simple belief: your site’s downtime should never look like an apology. Whether you are launching something brand new or performing maintenance behind the scenes, the page your visitors see is a marketing opportunity — a chance to look professional, build anticipation, and capture your first subscribers before you even go live.

Most “under construction” plugins give you a gray box and a sad message. SoftGlaze gives you 12 vibrant, professionally designed templates (including modern Neon and Glass effects), countdown timers with smart finish actions, a built-in drag-and-drop lead capture form builder, and access controls precise enough for agency work — all configured in under five minutes, with no coding and no page builder required.

And when you do want full design freedom? SoftGlaze Landing Pages are fully compatible with Elementor and other popular page builders, so you can design any layout you can imagine and serve it in Coming Soon or Maintenance mode.

Two Modes, Done the Right Way for SEO

Many plugins get this wrong and quietly damage your Google rankings. SoftGlaze handles it correctly:

• Coming Soon Mode (HTTP 200): Tells Google “this site is new — please index this page.” Perfect for launches: search engines start indexing you from day one while you build in private.
• Maintenance Mode (HTTP 503): Tells Google “we’re temporarily down — check back soon.” Your hard-earned rankings stay fully protected while you update, redesign, or migrate.
• Live Mode (Off): One click from the status bar and your site is back for everyone.

Switching between all three takes a single click from the professional Status Dashboard — no digging through settings. And with built-in scheduling, the switch can even happen automatically at the exact date and time you choose.

Launch With a List, Not From Zero

The biggest mistake site owners make is launching to silence. SoftGlaze’s Visual Form Builder turns your waiting page into a subscriber machine:

• Drag and drop custom fields — Text, Email, and Phone — in any combination.
• Every lead is stored securely in your own WordPress database. You own your data; no third-party service, no monthly fees.
• Export to CSV anytime and import into any email platform.
• Already using a form plugin? Switch the Form Type to Shortcode and drop in your WPForms, Contact Form 7, or Gravity Forms shortcode — it renders beautifully inside every template.
• GDPR ready out of the box — consent notices and data export tools are built in, because privacy compliance shouldn’t be an afterthought.

Countdowns That Build Real Anticipation

Nothing drives launch-day excitement like a ticking clock. SoftGlaze includes three distinctive countdown styles — Neon, Glitch, and Pill — plus something most premium plugins don’t have: Countdown Finish Actions. When your timer hits zero, choose what happens next:

• Display a custom “We’re live!” message, or
• Automatically redirect visitors to any URL — flip straight to your launched site the second the countdown ends, even while you sleep.

Set It and Forget It — Scheduled Mode Switching

Planning maintenance for 2 AM on Sunday? You don’t have to be awake for it. SoftGlaze includes built-in scheduling and automation: set the date and time, and the plugin switches modes for you automatically — flip into Maintenance mode when your window begins, and back to Live when it ends. Your visitors see a polished page, search engines get the correct 503 signal, and you get to sleep. This is the kind of feature most plugins reserve for their paid tiers; here, it’s simply included.

Access Control Built for Agencies and Client Work

If you build sites for clients, this is where SoftGlaze earns its place in your standard toolkit:

• Whitelist by User Role — let all Editors or Administrators through automatically.
• Whitelist Specific Users — grant access to exactly the accounts you choose.
• Whitelist IP Addresses — with full CIDR range support for offices and teams.
• Secret Bypass Link — generate a private URL and send it to your client. They preview the full site without logging in, without an account, without any friction. No more “can you make me an admin account just to look?”
• Front-End Password Access — a clean, styled password modal for anyone else who needs a key.

Your Brand, Automatically

• Design Inheritance: flip on “Inherit Theme” and your landing page automatically uses your site’s own fonts and colors — instantly on-brand, zero configuration.
• 20+ Content Presets: professionally written headlines and messages for launches, redesigns, and maintenance windows. The smart preset picker shows Coming Soon or Maintenance presets based on your active mode — with a live preview of the headline and message before you apply.
• Social Media Icons in Official Brand Colors: 10+ platforms including Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube, WhatsApp, TikTok, and Telegram — rendered as crisp, fast SVG.

Analytics & Marketing Integrations Without the Hassle

Your pre-launch page should be measuring from day one. SoftGlaze includes dedicated, paste-and-save fields for:

• Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
• Google Tag Manager (GTM)
• Meta (Facebook) Pixel
• Search engine site verification tags (Google, Bing, and more)
• Advanced header/footer script boxes for anything else — chat widgets, heatmaps, custom tracking.

Built Fast, Built Clean

• The landing page only loads on the landing page itself — your live site’s performance is completely untouched.
• Lightweight, dependency-free front end with SVG icons and clean markup.
• Works with any theme. Works with any host. Plays nicely with caching plugins.

Who Is SoftGlaze Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon For?

• Founders & startups building anticipation (and an email list) before launch day.
• Agencies & freelancers who need clients to preview work-in-progress sites via a simple secret link.
• Store owners protecting SEO during redesigns and migrations with a proper 503.
• Bloggers & creators who want downtime to look intentional, polished, and on-brand.
• Site managers & DevOps-minded owners who schedule maintenance windows in advance and let the plugin handle the switching automatically.
• Anyone who believes “under construction” should never mean “unprofessional.”

Free Forever — Built by SoftGlaze

SoftGlaze Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon is free, and every feature listed above is included — no locked buttons, no nag screens pretending features exist. It is built and actively maintained by SoftGlaze, a web development studio that ships real products: strong underneath, refined on the surface.

Found a bug? Have a feature idea? We answer every thread in the support forum — tell us what to build next.

Credits

This plugin is created and maintained by Azhar Ali and the team at SoftGlaze.

What’s Next

If you like SoftGlaze Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon, check out our other work:

• SoftGlaze Screen Recorder — a free Chrome extension for fast, clean screen recording.
• SoftGlaze Web Development — custom WordPress, WooCommerce, and Shopify development for businesses that want websites that win customers.

Visit softglaze.com/insights for tutorials and guides on WordPress, web development, and digital growth.