CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance vs Simple Maintenance
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| Feature | CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance v4.1.22 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | Simple Maintenance v1.0.4 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.6/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 200,000+ | 1,000+ |
| Last updated | October 16, 2026 | November 12, 2024 |
| Editions | CMP - Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin · CMP premium themes ($) | Simple Maintenance |
| Pros | Coming soon, maintenance and redirect modes; Subscribe forms for Mailchimp, MailPoet and Mailster; Free bundled themes with Contact Form 7 and reCAPTCHA support | Works on activation with no setup; Sends a 503 status so crawlers treat the outage as temporary; Logged-in users keep seeing the live site |
| Cons | Premium themes and special effects are paid extras; Some options point to niteothemes.com product pages; Mailchimp subscribers must be checked in Mailchimp itself | Page design is fixed and cannot be edited in the admin; Has no scheduling or per-page exceptions |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Coming soon, maintenance and redirect modes, Subscribe form with MailPoet and Mailster options, Subscriber list admin screen, Google reCAPTCHA check on subscribe, Google Analytics script option, Premium themes sold through the vendor store ($), Special effects for premium themes ($) | Maintenance page on front end while active, 503 Service Unavailable status for visitors, Logged-in users bypass the maintenance page, Login and register pages stay reachable |
| Integrations | ||
| Mailchimp, MailPoet, Mailster | — | |
| Plugins | Contact Form 7 | — |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Unsplash | — |
| Requires WordPress | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Requires PHP | 5.6 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 6.7 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | niteothemes.com, api.unsplash.com, www.google.com | — |