58
Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode Page & Under Construction
Pretty landing pages that might accidentally lock your site too soon.
HealthyDeclining
58/100
Attractive templates are offset by aggressive activation and limited free functionality.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.8★
311 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-32%
Declining fast
168 → 115 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 32% vs a year ago
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -32% in the last year
168/day a year ago→115/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayComing Soon & Maintenance Mode Page is a generally well-liked plugin for putting sites into maintenance or coming soon mode, though concerns about it activating immediately upon installation and misleading free-tier claims undercut its reputation.
What people like
- +Free templates are considered attractive and usable
- +Easy to use and set up×3
- +Useful for working on and managing websites×3
Common complaints
- −Plugin activates 'coming soon' mode immediately upon activation, with no opt-in step
- −Advertised as having a free option but users report the free tier is not genuinely available
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.87★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 32%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-01-162025-04-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 311 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-07★★★★★Great plugin!ovanruyten
- 2026-04-30★★★★★Very pleasant to usefullcolor
- 2026-04-21★★★★★I find it very useful. Thank you.m80jan1-shot
- 2026-04-15★★★★★Even the free version is excellent.finehearts
- 2026-04-02★★★★★Needs an updateneotek9
- 2026-04-01★★★★★Great Plugin!frijoze
- 2026-03-13★★★★★Professional and Very Easy to Usedmgawron1-shot
- 2026-02-26★★★★★Best one I triedbudtender1-shot
- 2026-02-24★★★★★Very nice PluginHesi
- 2026-02-11★★★★★Does at it says it will docgriell
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
108
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
98
Prior 7-day baseline
77
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
129
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+10.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
11%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.67
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
97%
5★ share in analyzed sample
32%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
0%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.91 → 4.87★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered