Are you in the process of launching a new website or updating the current one and want to update your website’s visitor immediately when your WordPress blog is up? The best solution is to use a ‘coming soon’ WordPress theme.
Having a coming soon page is really beneficial, you can easily collect the emails addresses & build the presence before even launching the site. These emails that you collect can be used to send out a mailing on launch day and provide you with a nice bump in traffic.
With a coming soon page you are basically telling users that you are working on something that will be a useful product.
In this post I’ll showcase 17 Free & Premium Beautiful WordPress themes for creating a coming soon page.
Premium Themes
1. Anticipate
Anticipate is a maintenance mode plugin that allows you to serve your visitors an alternate “coming soon” page while you work on building your website in the background. Once activated, all of your visitors will be sent to the Anticipate landing page. When logged in as a WordPress Admin, however, your normal theme appears, allowing you to build your website seamlessly in the background.
- Anticipate comes with social media integration
- Intuitive options page – that allows to you configure the plugins in minutes.
- JQuery slider allows you to add a few short blurbs to the page to tell your visitors what you are all about.
- Price: #39 (include 60+ other themes)
- Click here for full details of the theme
2. Launch Effect App
Launch Effect is a Viral Launch WordPress theme that lets you create a viral campaign in minutes. The theme allows the user to customize a landing page that introduces a business, product, or event and prompts visitors to sign up with their email to earn some sort of incentive (beta invite, discount coupon, a gift, etc.). The visitor is then encouraged to share a unique referral link that tracks their friends’ sign ups.
- Animated Countdown and progress bar
- Fully functioning WordPress Blog
- Conversions are tallied on WordPress, and the user can determine who should receive the incentives.
- Ability to add extra form fields.
- Paypal Integration to sell products
- It also has a free version of the theme
- Read our full review of Launch Effect Theme.
- Price: $65 (for unlimited sites)
3. Under Construction page
This is powerful under construction/holding page with AJAX Newsletter Sign-up and Contact forms, Twitter feed, Countdown Timer and Progress Bar. It also can be used as site down/maintenance page.
- AJAX Newsletter Sign-up form
- AJAX Contact form with validation
- jQuery Progress bar
- jQuery Countdown timer
- Twitter Feed
- Price: $5
4. Cool Under Construction
Cool Under Construction is a great looking, advanced specialty page, designed to attract potential users of your future website. Works perfectly in both HTML and WordPress versions, each in 10 colors.
WordPress theme with special option panel for quick and easy setup.
- 10 Colour versions: Blue, Celadon, Dark, Frozen, Gray, Green Lavender, Orange, Red, Yellow.
- Unobtrusive working AJAX contact and subscription forms with validation
- Cufon font replacement
- Still great looking and working (the same functionality of forms) when javascript is disabled
- Twitter integration
- Full layered PSDs for all versions
- Price: $8
5. Meego App
XHTML Under Construction page with Bonus WordPress theme and comes with great set of features.
- Twitter script for displaying latest tweets
- Social icons
- Labelled and layered PSDs
- Fontface
- Valid XHTML
- Well documented
- Screen cast for installing and using the WordPress version
- Price: $6
6. Chronos
CHRONOS is beautiful custom made template ascends to the highest levels of handling this situation professionally. It easily lets you inform your visitors about the launch date, present them with a nice countdown and politely ask for their email address, so they can be informed about any news or updates to the site.
- Store email addresses in MySQL database and in XML file
- Customizable header and content areas
- Adjustable jQuery countdown & progress bar
- Integrate all the social media accounts and show latest tweets
- Price: #6
7. SuperCharged
Inform your visitors about the launch date, present them with a beautiful countdown and politely ask for their email address, so they can be informed about any news or updates to the site.
- Link to your facebook & twitter account
- Connect your site with upto 12 social media networks
- Store email addresses in MySQL database
- Adjustable jQuery countdown & progress bar
- 5 different colour variations
- Price: $6
8. Parkit
Parkit is premium theme created by the guys behind Solostream. It is a nice theme that works perfectly for launching a new blog.
- Customize the layout easily from the theme options panel
- Collect and export emails to a .csv file in the theme options panel so you can easily import it into your favorite email software.
- Google Analytics Integration
- Social Networking Integration
- Price: $29
9. SeedProd
Easily create a custom Coming Soon Page in minutes that will help your Website Launch become a Success.
- Visible only to non logged in Users
- Maintenance Mode with Automatic Screenshot
- Integrated Google Fonts
- Display an Incentive after Sign Up
- Social Profiles & Social Sharing Buttons
- Aweber & Mailchimp Integeration
- Gravity Forums Integeration
- Multisite Support
- Price: $47
10. Coming Soon
MofM Coming Soon theme is stylish and clean launching theme for WordPress users. It offers two color schemes, jquery countdown, email subscriptions via feedburner, links to the profiles on the most popular social networking websites as well as custom logo image.
- All these features are easily customizable through the back-end options panel.
- Link to social media profiles
- Price: $10
11. im2 Under Construction theme
im2 is an High Quality “Coming Soon/Under Maintenance/Under Construction” template designed for the new website when it is preparing the design and contents or for websites that are down for maintenance.
- Ajax Subscribers form no database needed
- Working contact form
- Creative option panel
- Twitter integration
- PSD Files included
- Price: $18
Free Themes
12. Place Holder
- Functional Landing page
- Custom Typography
- Alternative theme styles
13. WP Launcher
WPLauncher is a free premium WordPress theme, with a single purpose: to provide an attractive, customizable domain parking theme for WordPress users.
14. Timealph
A sleek, dark, spaced-out landing page or email newsletter subscription page featuring the amazing UpThemes Framework.
- Easily integrates with Feedburner to redirect RSS feeds
- Running on upThemes Framework
15. CSS Jocky Coming soon
CSS Jockey is more of a WordPress plugin, then a theme. It allows you to display a Customized Coming Soon Page or Under Construction page to normal visitors or regular members of your WordPress based website or Blog – while the Site Administrators see the fully functional website with the applied theme and active plugins as well as a fully functional Dashboard.
16. BeBack Theme
Wordspop presents you a WordPress theme that can be used while your site is down, undergoing a redesign, or still under construction. Easy to use, easy to manage, as simple as a click.
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17. Launch Page
If you’re like me, you like registering domains. It’s exciting. But what’s not exciting is watching your hosting company or domain registrar turn your name into an ad-farm while you’re getting ready to launch your next WordPress blog.
Have you try to use any of the above themes for your WordPress blog? Which of these looks best for you? Please let us know in comments below.
Thanks for the write up! I’ll also mention that SeedProd unlike the other product is a plugin and allows you to work on your website behind the scenes while your visitors sees your coming soon page.
Hey John,
Your welcome and thanks for the review copy.
That’s a great feature and something that no other theme can do.
Keep up the good work, John.
-Dev
Yes, I have to change my WP blog theme and i searched a lot on internet for best theme. I am hoping that after the complete development of the theme, you will give me one of them to try.
Very helpful information. Thanks for sharing with us
Great collection Devesh, I like a couple of them and will use one for my upcoming blog. Thanks dude
Glad you liked the collection.
Thanks for stopping by, bharat. Have a great day.
These are really great, my favorites are #3 and #4. I would have never thought of building a list from the “coming soon” pages, I wish I did that. Will definitely consider for future projects. Thank you!
Your welcome, rosaline and thanks for stopping by.