LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder

LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder

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.
Rating:
4.3
Active Installations:
700000+
Last Updated:
Apr 03, 2024
WordPress Version:
4.7 or higher
Tested up to:
6.5.2

Easy Maintenance Setup

Quickly add a maintenance page to your blog or website with customizable colors, texts, and backgrounds.

Exclusive Access for Admins

Only registered users with admin rights can view the front end, ensuring privacy during maintenance.

Countdown and Subscription

Engage visitors with a countdown timer and collect their emails through a subscription form.

Compatibility with WordPress Multisite

Each blog in the network can have its own maintenance settings, making it perfect for multisite installs.

Version 2.6.10 (2024-02-28)

Fixes

  • Updated dependencies

Version 2.6.9 (2023-12-22)

Bug Fixes

  • 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)

Fixes

  • 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

2.4.2 (18/01/2022)

  • 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

2.4.1 (20/07/2021)

  • Misc: WordPress 5.8 compatibility

2.4.0 (13/05/2021)

  • 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 the wpmm_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

2.3.0 (07/12/2020)

  • 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, and wpmm_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

2.2.4 (20/05/2019)

  • 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

2.2.3 (20/02/2019)

  • 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

2.2.2 (27/11/2018)

  • 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)

Earlier versions

For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the full changelog.

Very useful

By mcdanimal on April 15, 2024

Love this plugin.

The best way to create own website

By sukomonica on April 8, 2024

Easy and wonderful themes to work with! Thank you for making wordpress a open source software considering all the team work behind.

Really useful plugin

By Craig Taylor (craigtaylor27) on March 23, 2024

I use this plugin on a few sites and it works really well fro doing site maintenance etc and really customisable. Only negative that a few others have mentioned it installed other plugins I did not require.

Excellent

By vincentlemonde on March 10, 2024

After a whole day of trying other plugins of this genre, I finally found this one, which is absolutely amazing. I gladly leave five stars, as it is not possible to give six. Thank you very much!!!

Very easy to install and use

By hofsorgenlos on March 7, 2024

For me it was the perfect solution. Happy with the plugin.

Just what you'd expect

By mladen84 on March 5, 2024

Does what it says on the tin. Clean, intuitive, reliable and no fuss.

alles gut

By tomsen42 on March 4, 2024

Installation und Gebrauch sind sehr einfach

Works very good!

By fython on February 17, 2024

This is a good very plugin, and it's free, ALL IN ONE, works very fine and it's free.

Just what I needed

By El Molino on February 14, 2024

Thank you very much for the helpful and straightforward plug. Developers often forget the end user and make things a bit more complicated than necessary. Not in this case. It was quick, easy, and got the job done. Five stars for sure.

Very Helpful!

By 67nj on January 31, 2024

Super handy when it comes to set your layout up in few minutes.
I also used it within the super popular Divi theme

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