23 Stunning Coming Soon Themes and Plugins for WordPress
The pre-launch stage of a site, service, or product is a flawless chance to drum up excitement and capture advance interest.
In this article, we’ll introduce twenty three of the best free and premium theme and plugin solutions for treating coming soon content with style.
What Your Coming Soon Page Needs to Do
Before we step through the leading candidates for your attention, let’s shortly outline what your coming soon page generally needs to do:
- Match your branding. Your coming soon content should be in keeping with the rest of your overall suggesting in terms of design while still being capable of highlighting specific features you want to stress.
- Help capture leads. You’ll almost certainly want an integrated form prominently displayed on your page to encourage visitors to sign up for launch notifications.
- Encourage social sharing. Getting permission to contact visitors post-launch is step one in building whirr, but you’ll also want effortless to integrate options for people to share news of your site socially.
It’s a relatively ordinary set of requirements, and the implements we’ll cover will help you execute on all of them in style.
Before we crack on to the list, you may also be interested in some background resources to get your creative juices flowing. Kissmetrics’ article on launch strategies and Gleam’s round-up of pre-launch growth hacking strategies are both excellent resources, with a slew of interesting takeaways for you to explore further. Combine them with our own guide to creating the ideal coming soon page and you should have more than enough food for thought when it comes to planning your own treatment.
Free Coming Soon Themes
Getting back to our coming soon solutions, we’ve split our list of implements into three broad sections: four free coming soon themes, fourteen premium coming soon themes, and then two interesting plugin-based solutions to close things out. Let’s begin with the free solutions available!
Upfront
With Upfront, you can lightly re-create the coming soon page you’ve pictured in your head. Upfront comes with a bunch of starter themes, just pick one, wipe it of all the elements you don’t need, and add in fresh text, pics, and anything else you need to create your ideal coming soon page.
Upfront lets you haul, scale, position, customize and see every edit you make in real-time. It’s effortless enough to build a basic site with some text and a handful of pictures, but the real joy starts when you add gooey navigation, full-width movies, parallax, mega sliders, Google maps… It usually takes time to add these kinds of elements to a site, but with Upfront it’s all built-in so it only takes a duo of clicks.
The best thing about Upfront? It’s joy to use. Earnestly, I could waste days building sites with Upfront (and have…).
Interested in Upfront?
1. Lexiity
Lexiity from Theme Kingdom is a clean, no fuss, and fully responsive coming soon theme you can use to provide a countdown to your audience and quickly capture emails.
The theme integrates nicely with MailChimp and comes with a petite number of built-in color skins to pick from. If you’re looking for a elementary coming soon theme to get the job done quickly, this is is a solid beginning point.
Interested in 1. Lexiity?
Two. Felice
The Felice theme from Bluchic gives you a stylish and responsive solution for letting people know your site or service is on the way.
A progress bar enables you to showcase the headway you’re making towards eventual launch, and both the header and background design can be simply and conveniently customized. You’ll also find prominent space for including your social icons, and a handy launch notification form gives you an effortless way of capturing visitor interest.
Interested in Two. Felice?
Trio. Launch
The free Launch theme from WPKube is the brainchild of Jason Schuller (of Pickle fame), and enables you to get a stylish coming soon page up and running as quickly as possible.
You’re able to tweak pretty much every main feature directly from the Customizer, and the theme is lightly integrated with MailChimp by simply adding your API key. Social icons and a elementary lead capture form can both be lightly customized and enabled or disabled.
Interested in Trio. Launch?
Four. LaunchTime
The LaunchTime theme from Theme Warrior comes with a plain countdown timer, eight default color schemes, and an effortless to integrate signup form that should display sleekly across devices of all sizes. It’s not the most visually compelling theme on our list, but it will give you a solid base to build from if you’re in a hurry.
Interested in Four. LaunchTime?
Five. Launcher
The Launcher theme from MyThemeShop is a fully responsive, lightweight theme that packs an epic amount of functionality in for a free option.
You’ve got three slick default designs to choose from and a nicely integrated front end editor to make quick visual switches a snap. A countdown timer along with built-in contact and subscribe forms make capturing user details nice and ordinary, and the theme is designed to work well with marketing software such as MailChimp, AWeber, Campaign Monitor and GetResponse.
Interested in Five. Launcher?
Premium Coming Soon Themes
If you have a little bit of budget to deploy, the following list of premium themes can help you add a little more pizazz and functionality to your pages and, in many cases, are limber enough to treat your overall theming needs post-launch.
6. Verko
Priced at $44, Verko is a slick, responsive one-page WordPress theme that lends itself enormously well to setting up an appealing coming soon page with a concentrate on visual influence.
A series of nicely put together demo pages – including an app launch demo and a more traditional coming soon example with integrated countdown timer – provide sample implementations to get your teeth into.
Interested in 6. Verko?
7. Magnium
One thing you won’t be stuck for with Magnium is options – the theme comes with fourteen multi-concept demos, over one hundred pre-built pages, and fifteen bundled plugins. Magnium is also fully optimized for WooCommerce, so if you’re looking to tout the wares of your e-commerce site in advance, this is an excellent theme to consider.
The single-page and landing page demo layouts should give you some inspiration for putting together your own stylish coming soon page, and the theme is available for $59.
Interested in 7. Magnium?
8. xTime
The xTime theme from Mojo Themes will set you back a very reasonable $16 for which you get a fully responsive coming soon theme based on the Bootstrap framework.
The theme ships with an effortless to treat admin panel that enables you to lightly switch inbetween options, such as incorporating a full-screen slideshow, static pic or YouTube movie as your main background.
An integrated jQuery countdown is also available to build a sense of anticipation into your suggesting, and social icons and a newsletter signup form are there for you to capture user details and encourage sharing.
Interested in 8. xTime?
9. Applay
If you’re looking to showcase your upcoming smash on the App Store, the Applay theme is just the right instrument for the job. $59 gets you an utterly polished, responsive and retina-ready environment to place your product in.
A series of professionally produced app showcase demo pages highlight features such as the theme’s support for parallax scrolling and feature sliders, and comprehensive online documentation means you’ll never be stuck for answers when it comes to implementing.
Interested in 9. Applay?
Ten. Dikka
For $59, the Dikka theme gives you the plasticity to tackle almost any type of website, and its single page and app landing demos give a clear idea of just how well it can be adapted to providing a clean and responsive coming soon page.
Based on the Bootstrap framework, Dikka is fully optimized for WooCommerce, includes useful demo data content to get you up and running quickly, and ships with the popular Revolution Slider and Cube Portfolio plugins bundled in.
Interested in Ten. Dikka?
11. Level UP
The Level UP theme from WP Bean packs a lot of value into its affordable price of $25. You’ll get an integrated countdown timer, support for Contact Form seven to capture user details, parallax and background sliders to catch the eye, and support for highlighting upcoming features and integrating social icons.
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Interested in 11. Level UP?
12. Landy
The Landy theme retails at $39 and gives you a reliable option for quickly assembling a coming soon page for your product or service.
The theme is fully responsive, has excellent support for tweaking via the Customizer, and incorporates a range of homepage options together with slick animated header features to grab the attention of users.
Interested in 12. Landy?
13. Rozana
Retailing at $49, the Rozana theme gives you enough options to both set up your initial coming soon page and broaden the design out to a finished site.
The fully responsive and retina ready theme ships with light and dark variations, six blog layouts, and eight portfolio layouts.
The theme is also fully compatible with WPML, MailChimp and Contact Form 7, and bundles the popular Revolution Slider and Visual Composer plugin in with its price.
Interested in 13. Rozana?
14. Startuply
Startuply puts seven homepage layouts at your fingertips, including options for integrating slider content and movie backgrounds.
You can also take advantage of a slick series of ten pre-made contact form pages, along with three coming soon pages that are there for you to customize as you see fit.
The Visual Composer plugin is bundled with the theme to help make dialing in your custom-built designs as elementary as possible, and a powerful admin panel keeps you in charge of all options with just a few clicks.
Interested in 14. Startuply?
15. xLander
The xLander theme is another popular premium option that includes Visual Composer by default to give you as much control as possible over your coming soon pages.
You’re free to commence from six default layouts, including attractive options with integrated contact forms, movie backgrounds, and five default color themes. Options for parallax sections and eye-catching CSS3 animations are also included.
Interested in 15. xLander?
16. EOS
Available for just $39, EOS’ fresh, modern design will help you to create appealing coming soon pages with a minimum amount of fuss while ensuring maximum design influence.
There are four basic layout styles to choose from, and eight pre-defined accent colors to help ensure overall visual harmony. Parallax effects, movie backgrounds, and sleek CSS3 animations further seal the deal and give you a finish set of options for engaging users’ interest while letting them know what’s in store with your site.
Interested in 16. EOS?
17. Verde
If you’re shopping for a bargain, the no-frills $8 Verde coming soon theme could be just the ticket. This Bootstrap-based theme keeps things deliberately elementary with an integrated timer, five built-in text display options to choose from, and the capability to incorporate YouTube and Vimeo content.
Interested in 17. Verde?
Legitimate. WooPress
If you’re running an e-commerce store and looking to tee up your big launch, WooPress is an appealing option that can serve identically well pre- and post-launch on WooCommerce sites.
The theme ships with twenty fully responsive, retina ready layouts, including a default coming soon option that looks excellent straight out of the gate. The theme’s developers have also thrown in an incredible range of premium plugins for free with the $59 purchase price – including favorites such as Visual Composer, Slider Revolution, and Essential Grid – so you’ve slew of room for perfecting your layouts once the site goes live.
Interested in Legitimate. WooPress?
Coming Soon Plugins
We’ll round out our selections with a look at five popular contraptions that take a plugin-based treatment to providing coming soon functionality on your site.
Nineteen. Coming Soon Page & Maintenance Mode
If you’re looking for a finish solution packaged up in one effortless to configure plugin, it’s hard to look beyond SeedProd’s premium plugin. Advertising itself as “WordPress coming soon pages and maintenance mode made effortless”, the plugin more than supplies on that promise.
Coming Soon Page & Maintenance Mode is available in a number of different licensing options commencing at $49 depending on whether you’re a developer or site possessor. There’s also a free version of the plugin available on WordPress.org.
You’ll find an amazingly finish feature set available, including comprehensive design options and utter integration with a host of email and marketing solution providers such as Campaign Monitor, AWeber, Run in rivulets and many more.
You can also take advantage of fine-grained access control and the plugin should work slickly with any well-designed theme. If you need further proof of the merits of the SeedProd plugin, a quick glance at their testimonials and showcase pages may be enough to seal the deal.
Interested in Nineteen. Coming Soon Page & Maintenance Mode?
20. Launchpad
Launchpad is a fully free plugin solution for treating coming soon pages that provides you with an integrated countdown timer, lightly integrated social linking, and a plain newsletter subscribe form to capture interest. The plugin should integrate sleekly with the majority of themes and also treats well responsively.
Interested in 20. Launchpad?
21. Effortless Coming Soon
The Effortless Coming Soon plugin gives you an effortless to integrate option for quickly creating either a coming soon or under construction page for your site that should play nicely with the vast majority of themes. The plugin also gives you the handy option of providing different content to logged in and logged out users.
The free version of the plugin gives you one default template that can lightly be modified and customized to match your site’s overall look. A premium version is also available for $29 and includes more advanced options for integrating with MailChimp and Campaign Monitor.
Interested in 21. Effortless Coming Soon?
22. Ultimate Landing Page and Coming Soon Page
The Ultimate Landing Page and Coming Soon Page is designed with marketers and designers in mind and gives you an intuitive means of putting together landing and launch pages. You’ll have no trouble quickly putting together your pages, collecting data, and taking advantage of the straightforward customization options the plugin makes available to you.
An advanced version of the plugin is available with licenses ranging from $29 to $149 and provides extra customization functionality and enables you to integrate more closely with marketing software such as AWeber and MailChimp.
Interested in 22. Ultimate Landing Page and Coming Soon Page?
23. Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode
The Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode plugin more than adequately covers your requirements in setting up ordinary ways to promote your wares and capture visitor data. The plugin works slickly with existing themes, gives you responsive templates out of the box, and offers handy extra functionality, such as being able to demonstrate the coming soon page only to logged out users or disable for specific IPs.
A premium version of the plugin is also available, with licenses ranging from $14 to $50. The pro version includes extra features such as integrated sliders, movie embedding, a range of countdown timer designs, and more advanced customization options.
Interested in 23. Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode?
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