Contributors: themeisle
Plugin Name: LightStart - Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder
Plugin URI: https://themeisle.com/
Author: Themeisle
Author URI: https://themeisle.com/
Tags: maintenance mode, admin, administration, unavailable, coming soon, multisite, landing page, under construction, contact form, subscribe, countdown
Requires at least: 4.7
Tested up to: 6.7
Stable tag: 2.6.15
Requires PHP: 5.6
License: GPL-2.0+
Easy Drag & Drop Page Builder that adds a splash page to your site that it's perfect for a coming soon page, maintenance or landing page.
Add a maintenance page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance, add a coming soon page for a new website or create a landing page for an existing site. User with admin rights gets full access to the blog including the front end.
Activate the plugin and your blog is in maintenance-mode, works and only registered users with enough rights can see the front end. You can use a date with a countdown timer for visitor information or set a value and unit for information.
Also works with WordPress Multisite installs (each blog from the network has its own maintenance settings).
- Fully customizable (change colors, texts and backgrounds).
- Subscription form (export emails to .csv file).
- Countdown timer (remaining time).
- Contact form (receive emails from visitors).
- Coming soon page;
- Landing page templates;
- WordPress multisite;
- Responsive design;
- Social media icons;
- Works with any WordPress theme;
- SEO options;
- Exclude URLs from maintenance;
- Bot functionality to collect the emails in a friendly and efficient way;
- GDPR Ready;
Please give us feedback, contribute and file technical bugs on GitHub Repo.
Developed by Themeisle
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- Unpack the download package
- Upload all files to the
/wp-content/plugins/
directory, include folders - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Go to
Settings
page, where you can change what settings you need (pay attention to Exclude option!)
- Maintenance Mode Example
- Maintenance Mode Example #2
- Bot Example
- Dashboard General Settings
- Dashboard Design Settings
- Dashboard Modules Settings
- Dashboard Bot Settings
- Contact Form
Check out our Snippet Library.
WP Maintenance Mode can be unstable due to the cache plugins; we recommend deactivating any cache plugin when maintenance mode is active. If you really want to use a cache plugin, make sure you delete the entire cache after each change.
If you change your login url, please add the new slug (url: http://domain.com/newlogin, then you should add: newlogin) to Exclude list from plugin settings -> General Tab.
Notice: wp-cron.php
is excluded by default.
Version 2.6.15 (2024-12-04)
- Codebase changes.
Version 2.6.14 (2024-11-11)
- Fixed conflict with WPForms
- Updated dependencies
Version 2.6.13 (2024-10-14)
- Codebase updates.
Version 2.6.12 (2024-09-17)
- Compatibility with Elementor: Fixes a compatibility issue with Elementor.
- Fixes Checkbox Styles: Fixes a styling issue with Checkbox in the wizard that makes it almost invisible on screen.
Version 2.6.11 (2024-04-18)
- Updated internal dependencies: Enhanced performance and security.
Version 2.6.10 (2024-02-28)
- Updated dependencies
Version 2.6.9 (2023-12-22)
- Fixed compatibility issue with WP 6.4
- Fixed broken templates layout issue on the Safari browser
- Enhanced security
- Fixed compatibility issue with WP-Optimize
Version 2.6.8 (2023-06-07)
- Fix the Save button Module tab not working
- Codebase updates
Version 2.6.7 (2023-04-01)
- Bug fix: Addressed an unnecessary 'no maintenance page' error occurrence.
Version 2.6.6 (2023-03-31)
- Remove error notice for users that use an overriding custom template
- Update dependencies
Version 2.6.5 (2023-03-01)
Update dependencies
Version 2.6.4 (2023-02-24)
- Add the option to manage maintenance status on all sites from the network dashboard
- Update dependencies
Version 2.6.3 (2023-02-06)
- Update dependencies
Version 2.6.2 (2022-12-16)
- Add the option in the wizard to skip importing a template and installing Otter
- Improve the quality of the template screenshots
- Fix the template overriding issue
Version 2.6.1 (2022-11-03)
- Add a notice to announce the rebrand of the plugin
Version 2.6.0 (2022-11-02)
- Adds Landing pages templates
- Adds more Coming soon and Maintenance mode templates
- Rebrand the plugin into LightStart
Version 2.5.4 (2022-10-10)
- Fix subscribers entry export for legacy forms.
- Fix PHP notice showing up on edge cases new installs.
Version 2.5.3 (2022-09-28)
- Fix wrong template loaded when the current post template is empty.
Version 2.5.2 (2022-09-27)
- Fix maintenance mode issue for previously logged users #321
- Allow comments into exclude textarea so that you can comment on the IP addresses for location, props @joostdekeijzer
- Fix PHP notice errors on specific scenarios #324
- Fix Otter for saving subscriber entry
Version 2.5.1 (2022-09-08)
- Fixes a bug which was causing error on some instances
Version 2.5.0 (2022-09-08)
- New Feature: Adds compatibility with Block Editor or any page builder for building the maintenance mode page.
- New Feature: Adds coming soon and maintenance mode starting templates.
Version 2.4.7 (2022-08-08)
- Fix login form display
- Fix email collecting by the bot
- Improve accessibility of the maintenance page thanks to @SophieWeb
Version 2.4.6 (2022-06-15)
- Improve data sanitizations for custom css and contact module
Version 2.4.5 (2022-06-15)
- Harden security and improve release process
Version 2.4.4 (2022-02-10)
Update dependencies
Version 2.4.3 (2022-01-27)
- Change ownership to Themeisle
- Misc: 900 000 Active Installs Celebrations!
- Misc: WordPress 5.9 compatibility
- Fix: jQuery UI CSS theme reference from jQuery CDN
- Misc: Text fixes in the dashboard
- Misc: WordPress 5.8 compatibility
- Design: add "Custom CSS" setting; Finally! :)
- Design: add "Footer links" color setting
- Design: add a list of available shortcodes under the "Text" editor
- Bot: make {visitor_name} placeholder work in all messages after the visitor types his name
- Misc: add [embed] shortcode for responsive video embeds; Compatible with YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion.
- Misc: make the exclude mechanism work with Cyrillic characters
- Misc: add
wpmm_maintenance_template
filter; It works the same way as thewpmm_contact_template
filter, but for the maintenance template. - Misc: now you can override the
contact
email template too; Check/views/contact.php
for more details. - Misc: better compatibility with translation plugins like Loco Translate
- Misc: the image uploaders (from the dashboard) are now translatable
- Misc: improve uninstall routine
- Misc: add
wpmm_delete_cache
action; It is called after each setting change. - Misc: add support for cache plugins like WP Rocket, WP Fastest Cache, Endurance Page Cache, Swift Performance Lite, Cache Enabler, SG Optimizer, LiteSpeed Cache, Nginx Helper;
- Misc: remove
wpmm_count_where
helper function - Misc: code improvements
- Modules: add support for Google Analytics 4 measurement ID
- Design: enable media buttons on wp_editor (now you can add images from the editor)
- Bot: fix translation issue
- Misc: add filters for capabilities
wpmm_settings_capability
,wpmm_subscribers_capability
, andwpmm_all_actions_capability
(the last one can be used to override all capabilities) - Misc: fix [loginform] shortcode redirect attribute
- Misc: a few CSS & Javascript improvements
- Misc: bump "Tested up to" version to 5.6
- bump "Tested up to" to 5.2.0
- fix typo in Italian translation (it_IT)
- Bot: add a note about how you can export the list of subscribers #195
- Bot: add client-side sanitization to the input fields #176
- bump "Tested up to" version to 5.1.0
- replace "wpmu_new_blog" action with "wp_initialize_site" action for WP 5.1.0 users because the first one is deprecated in the new version
- small improvement to "check_exclude" method from "WP_Maintenance_Mode" class
- Google Analytics module: migrate from analytics.js to gtag.js + add ip anonymization #178
- GDPR module: accept links inside texareas + add policy link target #188
- add charset meta tag #200
- fix PHP Notice: Undefined index: HTTP_USER_AGENT
- add plural and single form translation for subscribers number (settings page)
For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the full changelog.