Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode Changelog

• Fixed: on Midnight, Glass and Aurora the sign-up button’s label could not be read against the button — white on a bright accent, as low as 1.81 to 1. The label colour is now measured rather than guessed.
• Fixed: on Gradient and Marquee the small heading above the headline was drawn in the accent colour, which those two designs also build their background from — so the two were always close together. It falls back to the ordinary text colour where the accent cannot be read.
• The labels under the countdown are a little stronger, so they read on all fourteen designs rather than thirteen.
• Saving now says what was saved. Every screen answered with the same word — “Saved.” — which tells you the one thing you already knew, that you pressed the button. Each screen names what it kept.
• The confirmation message has no close button and more room at both ends: it leaves on its own after four seconds, and clicking anywhere on it dismisses it.

• Fixed: the countdown could become unreadable on Spotlight, Glass, Terminal, Frame, Gradient, Midnight and Aurora. Those seven draw their panels as a tint, which a colour picker cannot hold, so choosing one of them left the Panels box showing the previous design’s colour — and saving it painted the panels in a colour nobody had chosen.
• The Panels colour and the design’s own transparency are now kept apart, so every design shows its real colour and the page is drawn exactly as before.
• Confirmation and error messages are easier to see: rounder, and coloured by what they are saying — green for saved, red for something rejected, amber for something to look at — each with a mark of its own.
• A licence message now looks like one. Activating a key answered in an unmarked grey box, whatever it said; it carries the right colour and a mark like every other message on the screen.
• A licence key that could not be a key is refused on the spot, without a request to the licence server and without reloading the screen. An empty box used to mean a wait, and on an offline site it meant being told the licence server could not be reached.
• A key pasted out of an email in lower case, or with the dashes lost, is put right rather than reported as wrong.

• Confirmation messages line up properly and sit on rounder corners: they were top-aligned with the text nudged down two pixels to meet the icon, which on a one-line message read as a misalignment because it was one.

• "Worth doing next" redrawn. Each suggestion carries an icon saying what it is about and an arrow saying it is a way into the screen that fixes it — it was a bordered box with a coloured bar down one side and nothing to suggest it could be clicked at all.
• The preview bar on the Design screen no longer looks like a status banner. The coloured rule down the left belongs to the banner that reports what state your site is in; this one offers you something to do, and they were drawn the same.

• Confirmations are easier to see. The message after a save is bordered in the colour of what it is telling you, sized to the words rather than stretched to a fixed card, and it now says what was saved rather than just "Saved".
• It stays for four seconds instead of three — long enough to read a sentence — and hovering it holds it open.

• Tab changes are instant. The plugin's other screens are fetched quietly in the background while you read the first one, so by the time you click a tab there is nothing left to wait for — tens of milliseconds instead of a second and a half.
• One at a time, never in parallel, started only once the screen you are on is ready and the browser says it is idle, stopped the moment you navigate, and skipped entirely on a metered connection.

• An admin that never reloads. Every screen arrives without a page load and every save happens where you are standing — and the screen you are heading for is usually already fetched, because moving a pointer to a menu item takes long enough to fetch it.
• Saved, and told so where you are looking. A save answers in a small message in the top-right corner that clears itself after a few seconds, instead of reloading the page and putting a notice above the header.
• It is an enhancement, not a dependency: if a fetch fails or scripting is off, links navigate and forms submit exactly as they always did, and the server side is unchanged.

• Notices redesigned: a quiet bordered card at 14px with the tone carried by a tinted icon, rather than a block of colour in coloured type.
• The colour pickers start as the design you picked and follow it when you choose another, instead of four boxes reading "Select Color".
• The picture panel says what it has to say as one line rather than a card inside a card.
• Fixed three custom properties that were misspelt in the stylesheet, so the media picker and two other boxes had square corners where every other control is rounded.
• The page picker's search now works: its handler was never registered, so typing in it failed.

• Every notice this plugin prints now looks the same: a white box with a coloured rule down its edge — orange for something to do, red for something wrong, green for something that worked. WordPress tinted a warning cream and an error pink and gave each one its own border colour, so a few notices in a row read as a few different kinds of box.
• The message on the licence screen after activating or deactivating a key now stays where it is printed, rather than jumping down the page a second after the screen has loaded.

• Fixed: a notice from this plugin no longer jumps after the page has loaded. WordPress lifts any notice out of the page once it is ready and drops it under the page heading, so the screen settled and then everything below moved by the height of a notice — and painted once in WordPress's colours before ours arrived. Ours stay where they are put, styled from the first paint.

• Tooltips are ours rather than the browser's. They appear the moment you hover or focus instead of after a second, they are styled like the rest of the screen, and somebody using a keyboard gets them too. The last one was on the copy button beside a shortcode.

• The link on the countdown note carries an arrow rather than the mark that means "opens in a new window". It goes to another screen of the same plugin, in the same tab.

• The countdown note on The page always links to the screen that holds the opening time. It said "counting to 27 August" or "the opening time has already passed" and left you to find out for yourself where that date is kept.

• Six more designs, and these ones move. Aurora drifts soft lights behind the words, Glass frosts a panel over your photograph, Spotlight follows the pointer across the dark, Blueprint is drafting paper with a glow, Terminal is monospace with a cursor still blinking, and Marquee runs your headline across the top in a band. Fourteen in all, and every bit of that motion stops for a reader whose system asks for less.
• The live preview opens in a tab of its own. It was an iframe at the top of The page and Design, and an honest preview of a full-screen page took the whole screen — which left the fields it was meant to help with pushed below the fold. One button now, and it still carries what is on screen including anything unsaved.
• The dashboard chart says what it is showing: dates along the bottom, the peak at the top, and every bar reachable by keyboard.
• Tooltips are ours, not the browser's. They appear the moment you hover or focus rather than after a second, they are styled like the rest of the screen, and a keyboard gets them too. Nothing in the plugin uses title= any more.
• The menu entry says "Coming Soon", which fits on one line in the sidebar instead of three.

• Fixed: the Subscribers screen drew two floating Save buttons and only one of them could ever appear, because a screen shows one at a time. The short Mailchimp form keeps its Save button where it is.

• Fixed: the Subscribers card on the dashboard printed the size of your list under the caption "waiting to hear from you", which is a different number — the ones not yet written to. It says "on your list" now; the other number is on the Subscribers screen where it belongs.

First release.

• Close your site behind a page worth landing on. Two modes that behave differently where it matters: coming soon answers normally so the address can be shared and indexed, maintenance answers 503 with a Retry-After worked out from your own opening time so an afternoon of work does not cost you rankings.
• Eight designs — Plain, Card, Split, Gradient, Midnight, Poster, Notice and Frame — with four colours you can override on any of them. No page builder, no template files.
• A countdown to the moment you open, drawn with the right numbers already in it so it reads correctly before any script runs, and measured against your server's clock so a device that is an hour fast still counts down correctly.
• Collects addresses, and writes to them when you open. The list lives on your own site. The announcement goes out in small batches, plain text, with a one-click unsubscribe, and nobody is written to twice.
• A link you can send a client — no account, no password, remembered for a week, and revocable in one click.
• A password box for a group who share one, hashed the way WordPress hashes yours, with five guesses before a quarter of an hour's wait.
• Close part of a site rather than all of it: the same tick lists, searchable fields and address patterns every Traslatability plugin uses.
• Counting without watching anybody — views, people and sign-ups, one row a day, no addresses stored and no third-party script.
• One request and nothing fetched: the stylesheet, the script and the network marks are all inside the page.
• Optional one-way Mailchimp hand-off that can never cost a visitor their place on your list.
• Works on a single site or across a multisite network, and speaks Spanish and French.