Veil – Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode

Veil puts a clean coming soon, under construction or maintenance mode page in front of your site while you build it or work on it, and gets out of the way the moment you launch.

• Fast. One small HTML response with inline CSS. No jQuery, no theme, no external requests, no web fonts.
• Two modes. Coming soon for sites that haven’t launched (200, hidden from search engines), or Maintenance for live sites under work (503 with Retry-After, so rankings are kept).
• Launch date. Optional countdown, and the page can switch itself off at launch.
• Your content. Logo (with an optional dark-mode version), headline, message, a call-to-action button, social, WhatsApp and phone links, footer, browser title, meta description and share-card tags.
• Three layouts. Centered, Split, and Veil: a frosted-glass card over a full-screen image, with a built-in backdrop.
• Your design. One-click presets, colors, background image with overlay, automatic dark mode, four loaders and system fonts.
• Access control. Choose which roles see the real site, share a secret preview link, allow IP addresses, and leave chosen pages open.
• Private until launch. The REST API is closed to visitors, so unpublished posts, pages and users stay private, and the login link stays hidden unless you turn it on.
• No surprises. The admin bar shows the status with a one-click switch, wp veil on|off|status works from WP-CLI, and common page caches are cleared on every change.

Engineered by Datura Digital. Social icons adapted from Lucide (ISC License). The built-in backdrop image is original artwork by Datura Digital, released under the same license as the plugin.