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Launch: A Free “Coming Soon” WordPress Theme

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Launch: A Free “Coming Soon” WordPress Theme

Here at WP Kube we’re big on providing you with the best WordPress resources, tutorials, guides, how-to’s, and more. It’s all about delivering value to our awesome WordPress community and in particular, to you, our loyal reader.

Today we’re excited to offer something completely new – a free WordPress theme designed to help to kick-off your next website, product or service.

Introducing Launch. It’s really good.

Launch-Free-WordPress-Theme

Designed by Jason Schuller and developed right here at WP Kube, Launch is a single-page WordPress theme built with intention and purpose. Although simple, Launch brings a lot to the table with it’s modern design, clean code and perfect responsiveness. You can check out the demo here.

As soon as you’re ready to start building your community, just download the free template, add your details, and start collecting subscribers.

Key Features of our Launch Theme include:

  • Clean, simple, and focused design
  • Compatible with MailChimp
  • Perfectly responsive
  • Compatible with all modern browsers
  • Easily customized

Beautifully Simple & Completely Customizable

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Launch doesn’t just look great – it’s easy to set up too. All theme features are easily managed through the customizer, giving you full control over everything that’s important – favicon, logo, headline and sub-head, it’s all there. A default 1280x960px image is included with the theme but can easily be changed to anything you desire and as your project progresses, you can update the % complete indicator to keep your visitors up to date.

The whole purpose of Launch is, of course, to build your audience during the development phase, and all you’ll need to get started is a MailChimp account. Simply drop your API key and List ID into the appropriate fields and you’re ready to roll. In case email just isn’t your thing, there’s a check box to disable the form. Social links and email are optional and the footer text can be updated to anything you desire (although we’d love the credit).

Download the Launch Theme

Grab your free copy of our Launch WordPress theme today (for personal or commercial use) – all we ask is that you tweet or share this post :).

Interested in the HTML template? Head over to Leeflets.com.

Disclosure

Daryn Collier is a digital marketer and writer for hire. He is passionate about working with other entrepreneurs who are committed to growing their businesses through inbound marketing. A husband, father and avid CrossFitter, when he’s not working or spending time with his family, he has a love for the barbell and lifting things that are heavy.

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  1. Ravinder dande says

    Hi DARYN COLLIER

    you have beautiful collection of theme but i liked this theme the most of all . gonna download 🙂

    Thanks for theme

    • Daryn Colliier says

      No worries Kenya, I was just in the middle of posting it for you –this is what you’re looking for:

      #header .content span.logo

      Cheers

  6. Sébastien Louyot says

    Hi Daryn!

    Great theme! I have an issue with MailChimp integration : API Key and List ID are configured, but I get a blanked screen with a black cross when I submit an email.

    Thanks if you can help!
    Sébastien

      • Dave Lea says

        I also have the issue with the mail chimp intergration?? API in and list ID but blank screen with a black cross??? Can you help

        • Devesh Sharma says

          Hey Dave,

          Not sure how I missed your comment. Anyway, if you’re still having issues with mailchimp integration, let me know. I’d be happy to take a look.

    • Hardeep Asrani says

      Hi

      It’d be great if you could give me more details about ti so I could try to reproduce it. Waiting to hearing back from you. Let me know. 🙂

      Regards,
      Hardeep

          • Nkosana Mabuza says

            Good day Devesh,

            I figured the Mailchimp issue was resolved but when I try to install in on WordPress I get this error:
            “Destination folder already exists. /var/www/webroot/ROOT/wp-content/themes/launch/

            Theme install failed.”

            Can you assist? Thanks.

          • Nkosana Mabuza says

            Hi Devesh,

            I installed the theme, added the API keys and the list ID but I still dont received email on Mailchimp. What could be the problem? Looking forward to your response thanks.

            Regards
            N Mabuza

            • Goncalo says

              Well I had the same problem, I solved it by changing the mandatory fields in Mailchimp for required only on email address (I also had required for FNAME and it didn’t worked out)
              Hope it helps.

              A work around is to make a general form on mailchimp and put the link for subscription in footer for example…

              • Nkosana Mabuza says

                Hi Goncalo,

                Thank you so much trying to assist but that did not work for me. I ended up downloading the new template and it works. Thanks.

                • Dilly says

                  Hi Nkosana,
                  Were you able to resolve the issue with MailChimp? I’ve been having the same issue and tried everything without any luck. Thanks.

              • Dare says

                Hello,

                Great theme. I just neet to know is there any way to insert wordpress shortcodes in the text? (ex. youtube video, custom contact form…)

  7. Don McGowan says

    Hi.

    Thanks for the theme, it looks fantastic.

    I have a similar issue as the last commenter. I have input my Mailchimp API and List ID correctly but when I test it with an email address it doesn’t pull through to my Mailchimp list.

    Any help gratefully received.

    Thanks.

    Don

  8. Guilherme Brazilian says

    Hey Buddy,

    For first, thanks for this excelent theme! It sound’s great !
    And second, sorry my poor english!

    I have a question for you, cuz i don’t know NOTHING about php.
    I’ve downloaded your theme right now, but when i put this theme on my public_html the current message shows:

    “Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in /home/universo/public_html/launch/index.php on line 1”

    How can i fix it ?
    Thanks a lot !

    • Devesh Sharma says

      Guilherme,

      Thanks for the nice words.

      I’m guessing you uploaded the theme in wrong folder. Themes go into /wp-content/themes directory. Not in the main WordPress directory.

      Please do a fresh installation of WordPress and then install the theme.

  9. Yunus says

    Installing the plugin file is loaded: launch.zip
    Package is opened …

    Attachment Loading …

    Could not install package. Current plug-ins found.

    Plug-ins fail to load.

    Please Helpp 🙁

  10. Wilson says

    Hi, thanks for the great theme, really appreciate the work you’re putting out.
    Have just downloaded and uploaded this theme and would like to check with you how do I go about increasing the size of the Site Title.
    Can’t seem to be able to do it in the customise page.
    Please advise.
    Thanks in advance.

  12. Andy says

    Love the theme and installed easily. I’m also having the mail chimp issue though.

    API and List ID added and published. When entering an email address getting the “fail” cross displaying (and obviously mail chimp not updating)

    • Devesh Sharma says

      Hi Faroz,

      This theme cannot be installed on WordPress.com. To use our theme, you’ll need to move your site to self-hosted WordPress platform (.org).

      See our post on WordPress.com vs WordPress.org to understand the difference between the two platforms.

  14. Dias says

    Hey guys, great theme!

    Can you please tell me how can I hide the title of the page on this theme? Because the logo I’m using already has it so I don’t need it.

    Thanks and great work!

    • Devesh Sharma says

      Hey Dias,

      Currently there’s no easy way to hide the title. It would require quite a bit of customization unfortunately. I’d recommend finding a freelancer who could help you out with this task. http://studio.envato.com have a big selection of WP freelancers.

      Thanks for the kind words.

  15. Nkosana Mabuza says

    Hi WPKube team,

    Please check our website http://www.spacedecode.com
    The website is pointed to a 3rd party service and we pointed the website using the DNS. This is the issue below. Could you please assist:

    Font from origin ‘http://productlaunch.cloudhosting.rsaweb.co.za’ has been blocked from loading by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing policy: No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource. Origin ‘http://spacedecode.com’ is therefore not allowed access.

  16. Yvonne says

    I have installed your theme but I am having an issue whereby I cannot upload any images into the media Library, either directly in the Library or in the Customizer, when the Launch theme is active. I tested this by deactivating your theme and then activating twenty fifteen, where I have no problem uploading images. I also cannot see any previously uploaded media in the Library when the Launch theme is activated.

    Has anyone encountered this issue and solved it?

    • Devesh Sharma says

      Thanks for pointing that out, Yvonne.

      Just fixed the issue, please download the latest version from above.

  17. maxpouttee says

    HI!!

    i can’t enter any title on my launch page otherwise it places the word at the back of my logo on the top! Can help me?

  18. Shelley says

    Hi there,

    Thank you so much for this lovely theme. I’d like to have ‘Launch’ up while I customize my wordpress website running on the genesis framework.

    However, I notice that when Launch is activated, genesis + child theme (altitude) don’t work so I can’t customize on the website.

    Is there any way around this? Or is Launch just a cover theme for a parked domain? Cheers. 🙂

    • Devesh Sharma says

      Hi Shelley,

      I see what you are trying to do and I’m afraid that might not be possible. The best way would be to using a coming soon plugin such as SeedProd, that will allow you to make changes in the back-end.

      Another option would be to setup a testing environment, where you can make the changes.

      Cheers,
      Dev

      • Devesh Sharma says

        Hey Simon,

        The easiest way would be to search for .icon.facebook:before & .icon.facebook:twitter in the css file. Then replace the content with the icons from Ionicons.

        Cheers!

        • Mieka c says

          Hi,

          I’m trying to change the social button from email to Instagram.
          I’m using the codes from http://ionicons.com – ion-social-instagram-outline,  and \f350 and replacing them in the 3 different areas.

          It doesn’t seem to work for me. Please let me know how I can fix this.
          Thanks.

  20. Al Araf says

    Hi,

    Thank you very much for the template. I’ve tried to change the social icons as per the previous post but it doesn’t seem to work for me. Can you please provide further explanations?
    All the best!
    Al

      • Simon says

        Thanks guys, the cheat sheet really helped.

        All I had to do was the replace the three digit numbers of the templates social icons with the ones I wanted to replace them with (as shown in the cheatsheet).

        • Sarah says

          Hi Simon,
          I know its been a while since you wrote the post – but where exactly did you change the social links? I am a newbie and not sure how to do it. Figured I’ll ask someone who has done it successfully, if you do not mind taking the time?

  22. Simon says

    Hi Dev

    I have added an image to template – which you can seen at http://simon-mackenzie.com

    What I have discovered however is that when viewing the website on an iPad, the image does not change size like it does on an iphone. 

    Is there a way to way it make it responsive on a ipad also?

    I have read about using css for media only screen devices but unsure where to add code like this in the editor.

    • Devesh Sharma says

      Hi Simon,

      Looks good. Open your style.css file, do a quick search for @media (max-width: 800px) & replace it with @media (max-width: 924px)

      Haven’t tested it yet, but it should to do the trick. Feel free to reach out to me directly via Contact us page, if you need any more help.

      Cheers!

  23. Al Araf says

    Hi there, when I click on the social buttons my site is replaced by the social website. Does anyone know how can I make the social site come up on a new tab? Thanks

  24. Jimmy says

    I love this theme. Only thing I’d like, is the possibility to change the color for text, lines, etc. i’d like to have a light background, but I need to have black text to pull that off.

    • Devesh Sharma says

      Hey Jimmy,

      Thanks for the nice words. You can do that by editing your stylesheet file and replace the body color with #000 (line 441).

  25. rachel says

    Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks! One thing: I have the latest version, and yet no MailChimp subscribers are coming through when I test. Any ideas?

  28. pete says

    Hi there guys,

    Fabulous looking coming soon page…had me drooling!
    However, a small newbie query here: If this is a theme and not a plugin, how can I have this installed and then install my actual theme that I need for making our website. I don’t understand…. Help!

    • Devesh Sharma says

      Thanks Pete.

      That’s not possible with the launch theme. if you want to make customization on the actual theme (& still have the coming soon page), you will need to something like SeedProd.

  29. Raúl says

    Hi,

    I’d like to know if I could use this template just to set only a background image. I mean with no site logo, no progress bar, no text, no social icons… Only the background image. If this were possible, which would be the most appropriate size for the image?

    Thanks.

    • Devesh Sharma says

      Hi Raúl,

      Yes, you can do that by adding display:none property in the body class of your styelsheet. If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with me via our contact us page.

  30. Amanda says

    Hey guys! I’m brand new to web building. Using wordpress through my purchased domain/hosting with bluehost. I installed the template which works fine on my desktop but it does not seem to be responsive on mobile. I also wanted to change the logo size but I do not know how to access my style.css file.

      • Amanda says

        Thanks, Devesh! I’m still having issues with the responsiveness on mobile. Not sure if it’s related to a plug-in via WordPress or what. It seems to be placing a generic “Nothing Found” WordPress blog post over my template.

  31. tracy powell says

    Hi having problems with the mail-chimp integration. I notice you referred to a subsequent update above but not sure where that is . Where exactly can i find this?

  32. Mike says

    Hi,
    Firstly, thanks for a great landing page, simple and elegant..

    I am having problems trying to work out, how just to have my logo at the top, without the name of the website to the right of it..

    When you have nothing in the entry box for the title customisation, it defaults to not having the entire block at the top..

    Also, I have typed in our business tagline in the entry box, but it does not appear anywhere on the website..

    If you look at our website, I have inserted a ‘.’ in the title entry box, just so that it does not default, but you can still see it just behind the logo..

    Please help..

    Mike

    • Devesh Sharma says

      Glad you liked the design, Mike.

      You can hide that using text-intent, find “#header .content span.logo” in style.css file, and add this:

      text-indent: 9999px;

      • Geoffrey says

        but now i ve a scroll bar because the texte moved far to the right 🙁
        possible to make it hide ? (something like “text-decoration: none”) ?

        Thank per advance for your help.

        Love your template

        Geo

        • Devesh Sharma says

          HI Geo,

          That will remove the logo altogether. I think you’ll need to hire someone to make the modifications / changes (probably via Codeable or Envato Studio).

  33. Loc_rabbirt says

    Looking around on google and found it, design very high quality. I like this design so much :).

  34. Mike says

    Hi Devesh,

    Thanks for your help before, perfect solution..

    One more request, and I should be all good..

    How can I put a line of text between the subscribe button, and the socoal icons?

    Thanks,

    Mike

    • Devesh Sharma says

      No problem — glad I could be of help.

      Not possible to add the line via settings page, but it can be done by editing the index file (shouldn’t be too hard).

  35. Izad says

    Hi,

    I’ve set up mailchimp correctly in the theme settings but I am not receiving any subscribers in my list even when I entered test emails.

    Help please. Thank you!

  36. Geoffrey says

    Thanks you for your amazing landing page, love it!
    Just one thing: I have the latest version, and yet no MailChimp subscribers are coming through when I test it. Any ideas where is the issues ?
    I ve already read the feedback and it seems like i’m not alone in this situation.
    How may i fix it ?

    thanks per advance for your help
    BR

    • Devesh Sharma says

      Hey Geoffrey,

      I just tested the theme and it seems to be working fine on my end. They have to confirm their subscription before they can be added to your email list.

      Feel free to reach out to me directly if you’re still having issues.

  37. Gary says

    Hi There!, great theme btw, i was thinking how to add a button at the bottom of the footer which can dropdown to show more text like the FB’s show more, to show my careers page for hiring, thanks

    • Devesh Sharma says

      Hey Gary,

      Thanks but any customization at this point requires additional work. So you will have to hire someone to make the modifications for you.

  38. Sarah says

    I was loking for a template for WP like yours. Congratulations for its simplicity and connection with Mailchimp. It works very well. Good done guys! 😉

  39. Adam M says

    This is a great, well-thought out and flexible early-stage landing-page theme.

    How can I add another page?

    It seems it overrides any other page I add, eg /sample/ looks the same as index.php.

  40. VALERIE says

    Hi,

    Love the theme, thank you!

    I am trying to remove the dashed lines that separates the top and bottom section, as well as the one on the left. Can you help? Thank you!

  42. Ian H says

    Hi, love the theme, have installed it, but same issue, cant get the form to work, have got my API from mailchimp, and my list is set up with the same name as my MailChimp List ID but its not pulling in any user email addresses. Any idea how I can get this working? Be greatly appreciated.
    thanks
    Ian

    • Eugene says

      Having the similar problem, we created the API, and obtained the List ID. but when we submit the email address, it doesn’t appear any subscriber in the mailchimp.

      • Devesh Sharma says

        Hey Eugene,

        Just released an update, please download the new version, and let me know if you’re still having issues.

  43. Sean Biehle says

    Hi, I’ve increased the size of the logo on my site by changing the background-size under #header .content span.logo, but this doesn’t seem to affect the size of the logo when viewing on a mobile device. How can I fix that?

  44. jqp says

    Am I missing something? there’s no download link other than to a page for the HTML. Clean simple design. I love it.

  45. Mike says

    As this is a launch theme, how can one work on the website at the same time as having this theme active.

  46. George Zygouris says

    Hey Guys! Awesome Job! Coming Soon Pages have never been easier to implement!
    Now, I have a question. I need to add an issuu document on the page and when I do it shows a blank “div” with the same dimentions but not the document itself. Is there anyway I could add the issuu document on the page? Thank you for your time!

  47. Natalie says

    Wonderful theme – is it not mobile responsive? i.e. do you have a mobile launch page that will show up on a smartphone?

  48. Anna says

    Hi there,

    Thanks for this theme, I love it. I just downloaded it today and am experiencing the same Mailchimp issue that a lot of others are having.

    Are you able to help?

    • Mariusz says

      Check your PHP version. If it is less than 5.4 then you should probably update it.
      You can also make a workaround:
      1. Open file: wp-content/themes/launch/assets/helpers/post-subscribe.php
      2. Go to line 252
      3. Change it to be “$result = $MailChimp->post(“lists/$mailchimp_list_id/members”, array(’email_address’ => $email, ‘status’ => ‘pending’ ));”

      This change is about changing new PHP 5.4 array syntax […] to old syntax array(…).
      This works for me 🙂
      Hope that helps.

  49. Skyy says

    This may be a dumb question, but how do I download this?
    I don’t see a button to download.
    Thanks!

    • Devesh Sharma says

      You need to enter your email address under “Sign in to download” box to download the theme.

  50. ben says

    downloaded this theme today. 15 march 2016 and the subscribe mail chimp is not working. can someone help me on this?

    Please help

    • Devesh Sharma says

      Hey Ben,

      It could be because of the your hosting / PHP version, make sure that you’re not running on version 5.4 or less. If you’re still having issues, send me the login info (via our contact page), and I’ll take a look .

  51. Bontor says

    Hi, I cannot use Mailchimp plugin eventhough I entered Mailchimp API key and List ID. When I check console, I see “XMLHttpRequest cannot load http:///wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=add_mailchimp. No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource. Origin ” is therefore not allowed access”

    How can I fix this? A similar problem happened with fonts – the domain name site cannot display ionicons corrently. I fixed this by changing style.css to use CDN ionicon files instead of the local files.

  53. PIA says

    I’m another one who can’t get mail chimp to work!

    API Key & List ID inserted, but get the “X” when email address entered and the tick clicked.

    Any ideas? Downloaded two days ago, so am assuming it is the latest version.

  54. Angelo says

    Same here sadly. Can’t get mail chimp to work!

    API Key & List ID inserted, but get the “X” when email address entered and the tick clicked.

    Any ideas?

    • Piotr says

      I hope there will be some changes soon – I noticed that on demo version from WP Kube it’s woking again.

    • Devesh Sharma says

      Hey Angelo,

      I’m going to take a closer look at the theme to see what’s causing the issue. And will probably release an update in next few days.

      • Matt Brown says

        HI Devesh,

        Great theme! I seem to be having the same issue. Only downloaded the theme in the last couple of days so not sure what version it is. Will keep an eye out for an update 🙂

  55. Paola says

    Wonderful theme! Thank you for creating this.

    I have it fully functional and mail chimp is working, but I was wondering if there was a way to have a pop up come up after submitting the email so that I could let subscribers know to check their email for a subscription confirmation?

    Thank you in advance for your time and help.

  57. Mauricio says

    I’m having similar issues as mentioned by other users here. The e-mail form doesn’t seem to work – whenever an email address is input, nothing happens. This seems to be a very faulty design – can you please explain what can be done to fix this?

  58. Mauricio says

    It seems multiple people are experiencing the same problem (regarding the Mailchimp e-mail sign-up) where an X pops up every time an e-mail is entered. It’s been multiple weeks now and the designer still hasn’t responded?

    Can we please get an update?

    • Devesh Sharma says

      Hey Mauricio,

      Sorry for the late reply, we’ll be releasing an update within next 3-4 days.

      We’re also working on a plugin version, which should be ready within a week and a half.

  60. Jeremey says

    I too seem to be having issues with MailChimp. I get the green tick however it doesn’t actually add them to my MailChimp list.

    • Devesh Sharma says

      Hey Jeremey,

      We’re on it. Give me us a few days and we’ll release the fix.

      We’re also working on a plugin version, which should be ready within a week and a half. That would allow for maintenance mode option + better integration with MailChimp.

        • Devesh Sharma says

          Hey Jeremy,

          Thanks to you for the awesome support :).

          We have fixed the bug and updated the download link. The theme should work fine now. And if you’re still having any issues, please let me know.

          Cheers,
          Dev

    • Dev says

      Hey Mike,

      We have released an updated version, please download the theme again from above link.

  62. Anne-Marie says

    Hi,

    I’m working on building my first site. I set up the Launch Theme and I really like it. The MailChimp integration seems to be working fine. I appreciate that you are offering this theme without charge.

    Unfortunately it seems that either I misunderstood how the theme was to be used or there is some setting in the theme or in WordPress that I am not aware of. I thought that I would be able to work on my site in the background — without anyone else being able to see the work in progress — while the Launch coming soon page was up and running for any site visitors to see. However, it seems that either the Launch theme can be active or the theme that I am using to build the site can be active So I am not able to have the Launch theme representing my site while I am building the site behind closed doors, so to speak.

    Could you please clarify?

    Thanks!!!

    • Dev says

      Hey Anne,

      Glad I could be of help.

      Unfortunately, Launch is a WordPress theme, meaning you cannot install any other WordPress theme when launch theme is activated. This also means, you cannot make any changes in background.

      We are working on the plugin version of this theme, which will have the maintenance mode option. We are hoping to release it by the end of this week.

      • Anne-Marie says

        Hey Dev,

        Thanks so much for responding.

        That is great news that you will soon have a plugin version! I am looking forward to trying it out.

        BTW, I am actually called “Anne-Marie” rather than “Anne”. 🙂