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Having an under construction page is really helpful for your WordPress blog and at the same time for your visitors too. Being working online and researching several things, we go through pages which are broken. And, those might look alike,
“Sorry the page is not available” or “Error 404, Page not found” and similar.
Ugly, isn’t it? Just assume, what the visitor’s reactions could be. In fact, I would like to ask what could be your reaction when you see such pages?
For me, it’s not worth a second visit at all. Sounds rude, isn’t it? That is because you have shown a rude message to your readers.
I am sure you don’t want your visitor to think the same while you are working hard in the backend on the visibility and appearance. This is where under construction pages are applicable.
You will agree that being a webmaster you always like to make your site better and for that, you have to keep your website in the under construction mode.
How about providing a soothing and pleasant look of your website, instead that boring and default broken links.
Installing an Under Construction plugin designed by WebFactory for your WordPress blog does the job, which contains several features. It’s completely SEO friendly and won’t let your website get harmed in SERP’s while being in the maintenance mode.
This plugin is absolutely free and having 100,000+ active installs as on date. Which is huge compared with any other maintenance mode plugins? So, what makes it so best.
It’s easy to install and this, just like any other WordPress plugin, a few simple steps and you’re good to go.
Download and Install Construction Page WordPress plugin.
You can Configure it from Settings – Under Construction Page from your WordPress dashboard. Configuration is quite easier, you just need to switch a button as shown in the image below.
After reaching to the configuration page, you will see few options there,
Under Construction Mode – By, just simply switching on, you have activated the maintenance mode page for your website. Isn’t it so simple, quick and user-friendly when you are in hurry? And in case you want to go further you can also configure few more advanced options.
Automatic End Date – You can mention a particular date and time when you want your website to go live to the viewers automatically again.
Google Analytics Tracking – I personally, liked this one a lot, you can easily track the readers visited your website by putting your GA tracking ID. That’s cool, isn’t it? Google Analytics will track all your reader’s activity.
And finally, hit the save changes button the settings to get applied.
Apart from these, you can also customize it further in the next tabs Design, Content, and Access. Let’s take a look at them one by one.
Under Construction Page plugin offers plenty of eye catchy themes by default to choose from. And all those are absolutely free, that makes it stand out.
It also allows adding your custom CSS to customize it further according to your requirement.
Apart from the outlook, here in the content section, you will have the privilege to modify or edit the text content. For instance the Title, description, tagline and even the headline too.
If I had had to add some custom message, instead of “Sorry, we’re doing some work on the site,” that would be
Headline = “Website is Under Construction, we are coming back with a bang“
Content = “Thanks for visiting, we love our visitors, please come back soon”
“Be polite with your messages, humbleness is the key of success”
You can add anything you would like to. We always have a desire to customize themes, and this maintenance mode plugin makes it possible even installing a free version.
Apart from all these, it also allows you to add all the social handles to your under construction or coming soon page. All the popular ones can be added like,
That was a huge list, isn’t it?
In the access tab, you can manage all the roles of the Editor, author, Contributor, and subscriber. By default, Administrator will select obviously. You can also select the other users, to whom you don’t want to show the Underconstruction page.
Apart from this it also allows you to add any selected users only. That means you can provide access to any of your few contributors, authors or editors, as well. Which is a very advanced feature of being a free version WordPress plugin.
The support is also great. As we have seen above all the Under construction page WordPress plugin has very robust inbuilt features.
What else one needs in to put their web page in the maintenance mode. So, get this plugin and activate it whenever you want.
Though, if you are looking for more advanced features, running a business website then you should get the Pro version. Which is getting released very soon in Oct 2017 according to the official report.
A pro-version Under Construction page will have some more very advanced features for very obvious reasons, those are,
It would be a complete package for any commercial website or blog.
Download Free Version NowIt’s quite wise to communicate with your readers even when the site in the maintenance mode. Your readers are everything, don’t you think so? Importantly those who are loyal once and visits your web page continuously. Let them know what’s going on in the site backend.
Do share your thoughts on this robust WordPress plugin in the comment section below. And also consider sharing on social media to get it reached to the larger audience.
Hi Navin,
This under construction plugin is really awesome. I have been using this plugin for a long time.
Thanks for sharing this awesome Review.
Amazing plugin, thanks for sharing! The PRO version sounds interesting, will have to wait to try it out 🙂
Awesome WordPress coming soon plugin. I have already used this on my site.
Thankyou For Sharing This Information…
This sounds as if it is a great plugin for a site that is going through some changes.
This looks like a very cool plugin. I used to use a maintenance mode plugin, but now I mostly just create a coming soon page with social buttons and an opt-in form. I might have to give this a try and see how it stacks up. Thanks!
Yes, it is Ruth. It comes with several features along with the social icons and optin form as well. As it supports all major email services. You must give it a go..
Thanks for your time for going through the article!