Introducing Coming Soon Pro Version 3 plugin for WordPress

July 11, 2012 — 12

I’m happy to announce that Version 3 of the Coming Soon Pro plugin for WordPress is live and available for download. If you are a customer you will need to login and manually download the update since this is a complete rebuild from version 2. After you install Version 3 future updates will be automatic.

If you’re not a customer now’s the perfect time purchase the Coming Soon Pro plugin!

ChangeLog

  • Rebuilt underlying framework and UI to use all WordPress native components.
  • Ability to customize the template in an upgrade safe way.
  • Embed videos in the description by by entering the url Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-PRCQFXXJs
  • Added Get Response as an email list provider
  • Added the ability to capture First and Last name.
  • Made the after form submit process easier to understand.
  • Added PinIt and Tumblr to the Share Buttons
  • Added the ability to include a Facebook Like thumbnail image.
  • Built a referral system in to keep track of Subscribers, who the referrer and how many of those convert.
  • Added a progress bar with automatic completion calculation.
  • Change the location of the footer credit to the fixed bottom right of the page.
  • Added more icon sizes.
  • Added more social follow icons: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn,Google Plus, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Pinterest, Instagram, Foursquare, Tumblr, RSS, email
  • Drag & Drop Change order of social follow icons
  • Made language strings easier to find
  • Created the foundation for an upcoming themes
  • Created the foundation for more background effects
  • Created the foundation for more text effects
  • More container options: color, positon, effects
  • Control access by IP
  • Enable template responsiveness
  • Better import/export using json
  • More insight into your subscribers. Tries to find their referral, avatar, name (if you did not ask for it) and where they are from automatically.
  • Inline Preview
  • Made maintenance mode easier to enable and added the ability to capture emails in maintenance mode.
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  • Tom

    Very nice!

    There’s one practical problem I have: The older version is active and I need to deactivate it first, then install the new version and next figure out all the new settings. During all that, the site is visible, which is visited quite a lot already and I don’t want that.

    Is there a way to have the older plugin active and then switch when done?

    Love it though, cheers!
    Tom

  • John Turner

    Hi Tom, unfortunately not :(

    I can install the version for you, will only take me a second. Then you’ll just need to go in and enter your settings. Version 3 is major rewrite so you could also just continue to use version 2 on your current site then 3 on any new sites.

  • http://gravatar.com/karthost karthostRoy

    Just an idea wanted to share, Tom, there are other Under Construction plugins, none of which is nice as “Coming Soon Pro” (reason I am using Coming Soon Pro). But my idea would load the other “Under Construction” plugin and activate it and then upgrade “Coming Soon Pro” and figure out the new settings and once you are ready deactivate the other Under Construction plugin and activate the Coming Soon Pro moments later.

    Sure there would be maybe less than a minute between deactivating one and the other but if done late at night maybe that wouldn’t be an issue based on your concerns.

    Or just let John upgrade it for you.

  • John Turner

    karthostRoy thanks for the suggestion. The upgrade process should go smoother in the future, Version 2 was built on a unstable framework and had the potential for conflicts. I built Version 3 from the ground up to avoid all the pitfalls from Version 2. So this will be the last time something like this will occur.

  • http://www.accxess.com Mark

    John, great work and nice additional features. The developer upgrade was a nice touch (immediately upgraded). My question is that I have lots of sites that are version 2 which ideally should be version 3, both have the export/import options – what about a parser to convert a v2 export to a v3 import file?

    • John Turner

      Hey Mark,

      Thanks! I looked into building a migrator but the options and structure were so different that building it would push back the launch and I really just wanted to get it out. Give me a couple of weeks and I’ll see if I can get one pushed out.

  • http://twitter.com/optimizacion Miguel Ayala (@optimizacion)

    Congrats men for this release, I always thought this was going to be a good plugin since I first bought it.

    • John Turner

      Thx Miguel :)

  • David

    How about having an option next to each of the font drop downs; Text Font, Headline Font, and Button Font to pick the font size that you want.

  • John Turner

    Hi David, I’ll look into adding this. You can change the fonts size with custom css in the mean time.

  • Desmond Kerk

    I have a problem with the plugin. I disabled it, but when I share the link on Facebook, I still see “Coming Soon” as description.