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Set your site to Coming Soon

Last Update: May 7, 2024

With Elementor’s Maintenance Mode Tools, you can display a custom Coming Soon page to visitors, and send the right HTTP response to search engines.

Coming Soon Response Code

Setting Elementor to Coming Soon, makes your site tell search engines everything is working as normal, and they can index the website as usual. This is done by returning a response of HTTP200.

For more information about Maintenance Mode, check out the Elementor blog article, How to Put a WordPress Site in Maintenance Mode.

Tip
You can use the same process described here to put your site in Maintenance Mode. For details, see Set your site to Maintenance Mode.

Set your site to Coming Soon

To set your site to Coming Soon, you’ll need to create a Coming Soon page and then set the site to Coming Soon in WP Admin.

To set your site to Coming Soon:

  1. Create a Coming Soon template. For details about creating a template page, see Create a single page template.
    image 19 Set your site to Coming Soon 1
    Note
    The template hierarchy needs to be set to Page.

    image 20 Set your site to Coming Soon 3
  2. From WP Admin, navigate to Elementor>Tools.
    image 21 Set your site to Coming Soon 5
  3. In the right pane, click the Maintenance Mode tab.
    image 22 Set your site to Coming Soon 7
  4. Use the Choose Mode dropdown menu to select Coming Soon.
    image 23 Set your site to Coming Soon 9
  5. (Optional) Use the Who Can Access dropdown menu to choose who can access the site while it’s Coming Soon. You can either leave the default setting which gives access to all Logged In users, or use checkboxes to create a Custom list of user types who can access the site.  
    5 the Choose Template dropdown Set your site to Coming Soon 11
  6. Use the Choose Template dropdown menu to select the Coming Soon template you created. This is the page presented to site visitors.
    image 24 Set your site to Coming Soon 13
  7. Click Save Changes.

Site visitors will be directed to a Coming Soon page and search engines will recognize your site is still being built.
image 25 Set your site to Coming Soon 15

The top bar of WP Admin will display the text: Maintenance Mode On.

Note
The following 3rd party cache plugins are automatically cleared on every change in the Elementor Maintenance Mode: 

  • WP Rocket (premium)
  • W3 Total Cache (free)
  • WP Super Cache (free)
  • WP Fastest Cache (free + premium)

Have more questions? We’re more than happy to assist.

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