Want to create a gorgeous, feature-rich WordPress coming soon page for your website?
With a coming soon page, you can build hype, attract visitors, collect email addresses, gain social media followers, and more, all before your website even goes live.
But what’s the best way to create a coming soon page that does all of those things?
There’s one plugin I love for this: SeedProd. In this article, I’ll explain why you need a coming soon page, why SeedProd is the best plugin for it, and how to create your page. Follow me as I go step-by-step through the whole process.
Why Do You Need a Coming Soon Page?
Using a coming soon page for your WordPress website has many benefits. How cool is it that you can get a head start on growing your business/brand/organization before your site even goes live?
Here’s why you should create a coming soon page:
- Generate Leads: You can capture leads before launching your website by collecting your visitors’ email addresses. If your page builds a lot of good hype and your product or offer is exciting, visitors will gladly give you their email addresses in exchange for letting them know when you go live. This is a smart, quick way to build your email list!
- Boost Social Followers: By adding your social media profiles to your coming soon page, you can grow your social following before going live. Make sure to count down on your social media profiles as well to increase your reach!
- Test Your Idea: If you’re looking for feedback on your upcoming product, coming soon pages can help you test your idea. Add product details and ask visitors to register for a first look. If you get a lot of registrations, that means users are interested in the idea.
- Build Brand Awareness: Just like creating buzz, you’re also creating a brand. Coming soon pages help promote brand awareness among your early users.
So, which plugin should you use to create a coming soon page that can do all of these things?
Which WordPress Coming Soon Plugin is Best?
There are quite a few WordPress plugins out there that can create coming soon pages. While several of them will create a nice, workable page, my favorite is SeedProd.
SeedProd is a drag-and-drop landing page and full WordPress theme builder that offers many really neat features. Its intuitive drag-and-drop builder allows you to design amazing pre-launch pages using a wide range of customization options so that they match your business or brand exactly.
If you’re on a strict budget, you can make a customized, effective coming soon page with just the free version of SeedProd. If you have a little wiggle room, you can grab one of the licenses for access to more of the features that’ll grow your business.
For example, the basic license is only $39.50 for a year, and it’ll open up your access to 90+ pro design blocks. For coming soon pages, I love these premium blocks:
- Optin form
- Countdown timer
- Social profiles
- Facebook embed
- Giveaway
- Gallery
- Counter
- Team members
Some other SeedProd features that make it the best WordPress page builder are:
- Easy integration with email marketing tools like Drip and Mailchimp
- Create coming soon landing pages within minutes
- Pre-built themes, color schemes, and block templates
- Control who can view your website
- Live preview your pages before publishing
- Use layout navigation to easily rearrange rows, columns, or blocks
- Protect your landing pages from spam and bots with ReCaptcha
- All pages are mobile-responsive
Ready to create your coming soon page? I’ll walk you through a step-by-step tutorial now.
How to Build a WordPress Coming Soon Page
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create your coming soon page. I’ll be using SeedProd Pro, but you can use whichever version you have.
Step 1: Install and Activate the SeedProd WordPress Plugin
If you’ve grabbed a license, you can find the download file in your Account area under the Downloads tab. Simply click the Download SeedProd Pro button to download the plugin file.
Next, log in to your WordPress website and go to Plugins. Then click Add New » Upload Plugin.
Then, click on the Choose File button and select the SeedProd download file from your system. Then hit the Install Now button.
On the next screen, click Activate Plugin.
After the plugin is active, you’ll be taken to SeedProd welcome screen in your WordPress dashboard. Here, you’ll need to enter your license key and verify it.
Once SeedProd verifies your license key, you’re ready to create your coming soon landing page.
Starting with SeedProd Lite? Search for SeedProd under Plugins » Add New Plugin and click Install Now, then click Activate:
Step 2: Create a Coming Soon Page in WordPress
After verifying your license, click the orange Setup SeedProd button:
To create a coming soon page, click the Setup a Coming Soon Page button.
SeedProd will now offer you different templates to choose from. You can click on a template you like or start with the blank template to build your page from scratch.
Step 3: Customize Your Coming Soon Page
After you’ve picked out a template for your coming soon page, you can customize using SeedProd’s drag-and-drop builder in the Design tab.
From the left-hand side, you can simply drag any item you want to add to your landing page.
If you grabbed a license, scroll down in the list to find the pro blocks. Here’s where you can get really creative!
You can create and embed a giveaway contest to encourage sharing, add an opt-in form to gather email addresses, insert a countdown timer to create urgency, and much more.
Every block that you add can be customized in the way you want. For example, if you add an opt-in form, you can edit the fields, change their size, customize the button, and even specify a success action when a user hits the button.
Besides adding blocks to your page, you can also add entire new sections, like headers, footers, hero sections, FAQ, and more. To explore all of the sections, go to the Sections tab. Click on any section to add it to your coming soon page.
Need to edit the background or other global settings? Click on the Global Settings tab in the bottom left:
Once you’ve made your page look and function as you want it to, you can proceed to the next step.
Step 4: Connect Your Coming Soon Page
In the next step, you can connect your coming soon page with different marketing automation tools.
Click on the Connect tab at the top to connect SeedProd with tools like Constant Contact, Drip, Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor, and more.
SeedProd also integrates with Zapier, so you connect with virtually any platform that connects with Zapier.
Step 5: Change the Page Settings
Finally, you’ll want to adjust the settings in the Page Settings tab.
First, let’s take a look at the General tab.
Here you can edit your page title, change the status of your page from Draft to Published, enable the Powered by SeedProd link at the bottom, enable isolation mode to help remove third-party styling, redirect your coming soon page to another URL, and more.
In the Access Control settings tab, you can manage who can see the coming soon page and who can view the rest of your website while it’s under construction.
You can enable the Exclude Default mode, which automatically excludes URLs that contain login, admin, dashboard, etc. Or you can choose from other options like filtering users based on IP address, cookies, and user roles.
In the SEO settings tab, you can add an SEO title tag, description, favicon, and social media thumbnail and turn on the option to enable no index on your coming soon page.
No index means search engine bots will not crawl your page and they won’t show it in search engine page results (SERPs).
The last Page Settings tab is Scripts. This tab allows you to add different scripts in the header, footer, or body of your coming soon page.
Once you’re satisfied with your settings, click Save.
Now, you can publish your coming soon page by enabling the option under the General settings tab, or click the X in the upper right corner to bring up this message. Click Yes, Activate to push your page live.
How to Track WordPress Visits on Coming Soon Pages
Want to know how many users are visiting your coming soon page? To track visitors on your coming soon page, you’ll need to install Google Analytics. The best way to do that is with a plugin.
MonsterInsights
MonsterInsights is the best Google Analytics plugin for WordPress. It installs Google Analytics on your site in just a couple of clicks, tracks all of your most important metrics, and shows you your data in easy-to-read reports right inside your WordPress dashboard.
MonsterInsights tracking goes beyond what you get in Google Analytics alone. Just a few of the features and reports you get include:
- Form submission tracking (yes, even the form on your SeedProd coming soon page!)
- eCommerce tracking
- Campaigns report
- Author tracking
- PPC ad conversion tracking
- Media (video) tracking
- And more
To use MonsterInsights for maintenance mode page tracking, you’ll first need to install and set up MonsterInsights. For a full tutorial on that, check out How to Add Google Analytics to WordPress the Right Way.
Then, in your coming soon Page Settings tab, make sure that Isolation Mode is switched OFF. This makes it possible for MonsterInsights to track your page.
That’s it! Your page is now being tracked. If you have a form on your page and you grabbed MonsterInsights Pro, you’ll also see form submissions in your Forms report:
That’s it!
I hope you liked this walkthrough on creating a coming soon page in WordPress. You might also want to check out:
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FAQ
How do I activate my coming soon page on WordPress?
When your coming soon page is designed and ready, head to SeedProd » Landing Pages in your WordPress dashboard and toggle the Coming Soon Mode switch to Active.
How to design a coming soon page on WordPress?
The best way to design a coming soon page on WordPress is with a page builder plugin like SeedProd. It helps you design a high-converting page, then can hide the rest of your website while your coming soon page is active.
How do I disable the WordPress coming soon page?
To disable your coming soon page, head to SeedProd » Landing Pages in your WordPress dashboard and toggle the Coming Soon Mode switch to Inactive.
How to create an under construction page on WordPress?
An under construction page on WordPress is the same as a coming soon page. To create a coming soon page, use a landing page builder plugin such as SeedProd.
I love this tutorial. Thanks 🙂