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8 Free and Premium Coming Soon WordPress Themes and Plugins (2024)

[ad_1] Free and premium coming soon WordPress themes and plugins have a vital role for any new site. They can help you build anticipation for the launch of your project, and will also help you to garner traffic, attention, and hype. As such, dedicated themes and plugins should be on any new or revamped site’s shortlist. For this post, we’ll look at free and premium coming soon WordPress themes and plugins. First off, we’ll discuss how to choose from the many available options. From there, we’ll look at a number of solutions. Towards the end, we’ll also provide a quick summary of which ones you should look to next. How to Choose From the Best Free and Premium Coming Soon WordPress Themes and Plugins Choosing your solutions won’t be easy, thanks to the proliferation of available options that incorporate both themes and plugins. This will be subjective, as your needs will dictate the right option. While there will be cross-over or outlying cases, in short: Choose a theme where you’ll want a longer-term solution. This is because, in part, it will be tougher to swap out a theme fast. It’s arguable, but a theme can give you better quality visuals than a plugin can. Speaking of which, choose a plugin if you need a fast way to set up a coming soon page. You should be able to turn it on and off when you need in a flash. However, you may have less flexibility with design when it comes to a theme. Of course, our niche-agnostic advice on how to choose good plugins and themes also applies: user ratings need to be high, updates need to be regular, security has to be your priority, and the feature set of the solution has to be suitable for your needs. Speaking of which, you should look at least look for the ability to set either a countdown timer or a signup form. These are key aspects of a coming soon page. However, what you include on the page itself is largely up to you – as long as you build excitement! 8 Free and Premium Coming Soon WordPress Themes and Plugins Next, we have the complete list of eight free and premium coming soon WordPress themes and plugins. While we encourage you to read them all, here’s a quick list in case you want to jump to particular tool: Divi Thrive Architect SeedProd Launch Elementor Oaknut Minimal CMP The list here isn’t in any order. However, check out our summary later in order to find out which themes and plugins we like the most. 1. Divi First off, we have an ‘S-tier’ WordPress theme regardless of the application. However, Divi is absolutely suitable for a coming soon page thanks to its functionality and other inclusions. Elegant Themes is a feature across the WPKube blog. In fact, we have a whole review of Divi elsewhere. As such, we don’t need to give you too much here. However, the theme has layouts for coming soon pages among its 2,000-plus choices. Couple this with its crammed feature set and you have one excellent multipurpose WordPress theme. Best for: Divi will be ideal if you don’t like the idea of using multiple themes or plugins for your site’s design. You’ll be able to set up a complete coming soon page with Divi, then transition to your full site design without missing a beat. Price: Divi comes in a package with all of Elegant Themes’ other products. This costs $89 per year, or $249 for a lifetime license. 💰 Don’t forget to use our exclusive Elegant Themes coupon to get 10% OFF. 2. Thrive Architect Conversions will be important for your coming soon page. As such, Thrive Architect could be your choice here. It’s a page builder plugin at its core, with functionality that lets you capture more users through your designs. Again, this is another solution we cover in detail with a dedicated review. We implore you to read that for the full scope on what the plugin gives you. Even so, you have coming soon templates to choose from, and even the Smart Landing Pages feature. This lets you automate styling options, customizations, and more to create a coming soon page in mere minutes. Best for: Thrive Architect will be the option for you if you need to convert visitors. Given that it includes dedicated coming soon templates and pre-built conversion elements, the plugin could be near ideal for many use cases. Price: The plugin costs $99 per year, although there are bundles with other products for a higher price. 3. SeedProd Fun fact: this author used SeedProd for years to not only create coming soon pages, but maintenance pages too. As such, this option has the flexibility to stick around in your setup. At heart, SeedProd is essentially a page builder plugin with a specific focus on landing pages, sales funnels, coming soon pages, and more. It comes with over 200 templates, and it’s a breeze to use, activate, and deactivate when you need. In fact, we have a full tutorial on how to use SeedProd for your own projects! Best for: Flexible landing page creation that includes coming soon pages and maintenance pages. It’s also arguably the best plugin available for the job. Price: SeedProd has a free version available, but the premium edition starts from $79 per year. 4. Launch Let’s get a little closer to home now, with out own solution for a coming soon page WordPress theme – Launch. This is a quick, simple, and customizable option that comes as both a theme and plugin. We know that capturing users is a key aspect of any coming soon page. As such, Launch will let you set up a Mailchimp form and send those email addresses straight to your lists. You have plenty of customization options, and the theme uses the familiar WordPress interface for all of them. Best for: Straightforward, simple, speedy, and fast to setup coming soon

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10 Top Free and Premium CDNs for WordPress

[ad_1] Speed is a practical necessity for all websites. While there are lots of ways you can do this, and Content Delivery Network (CDN) is ideal for getting your site to load fast regardless of where the end user is located. Though, as this list of free and premium CDNs will show, there’s overwhelming choice. Though, you don’t have to bog yourself down with decision paralysis. There are a few top solutions to suit a variety of needs. What’s more, because WordPress is popular, integrating a CDN is a piece of cake. This means you can concentrate on what a solution will offer, rather than how you’ll implement it. As such, this article will look at some of the popular free and premium CDNs for WordPress. Before this, let’s fill in the blanks when it comes to how a CDN can help you. What a Content Delivery Network (CDN) Is In a nutshell, a CDN is a network of servers across the globe. The goal is to take your site, distribute it across those servers, and call on it when a local user accesses your site. For example, if you’re a site owner in the US, you’re often going to use a server located in the country. Users close in a relative sense to that server won’t see any issues. Though, for an end user in Australia, the time it takes to get your site from one server to the other will cause lag. In fact, this is a big aspect in testing your site speed with tools such as Pingdom or GTmetrix: A CDN chooses the most relevant server (read: the closest) for the end user, and serves that. It’s the same site for all practical purposes, but offers a dramatic difference to your visitors. As such, they’re vital for a high-performing website that runs fast almost anywhere on the planet. The Perks of Both Free and Premium CDNs for Your Site and Its Users The general benefit of using free or premium CDNs is speed. Though, if you drill down further, there are specific reasons why a fast site is better than a slow one: In short, search engines prefer fast sites. Google considers speed to be an important factor, and uses it in part to determine a site’s PageRank calculation. A site that loads quickly improves the user’s experience, which is crucial for optimizing conversion rates. After all, even a two-second loading time can hammer your bounce rate. There’s also a bandwidth saving for your host too. Because a CDN uses its own servers, your host won’t be responsible for allocating resources. As such, you can better use your host’s resources, and farm out others to your CDN. 10 Top Free and Premium CDNs for WordPress Over the next few sections, we’ll discuss ten of the best free and premium CDNs on the market. We’ll talk about the general features of each solution, along with their pros and cons. Of course, we’ll also tell you the cost of each one. Here’s a summary of our inclusions: StackPath. An enterprise-level solution that comes with similar-sized pricing. Amazon CloudFront. It integrates with AWS, so will be suitable if you use that service. CDN77. This is the only CDN that can work from space! It’s another service that best suits huge networks. Cloudflare. The perennial choice of users with low budgets, Cloudflare is great regardless of whether you’re on the free or premium tier. CDN.net. The pricing is better than other large CDNs, but offers less in the way of features and functionality. jsDelivr. This servers your JavaScript dependencies from a network of servers. Site Accelerator. Automattic’s own solution is an image and file CDN that’s ideal if you’re a Jetpack user. KeyCDN. Good pricing and solid features means KeyCDN is a top-tier solution for all users. Swarmify. A video CDN that works great alongside other full-featured CDNs. BelugaCDN. This budget CDN is an outlier pic if you’re looking for a long-term and cheap CDN. While you might have heard of some solutions here, others could be new. As such, we encourage you to jump around the post and check out whatever CDNs appeal to you. Let’s begin! 1. StackPath First on our list of free and premium CDNs is a solution you may not know in its current guise. StackPath is a rebranded and enhanced MaxCDN – a product we’ve covered on the blog before. Regardless of its name, it’s an industry-standard CDN, trusted by millions of users. StackPath offers high-performance and better security, along with a bunch of other features and specifications: A direct connection to the StackPath network – great for high-traffic applications. The ability to serve Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) certificates from StackPath’s servers, rather than from your ‘origins’. You’re able to set custom rules for your setup, to make sure StackPath works for your needs. StackPath also offers in-depth support across a variety of channels. In the past, we’ve shown how MaxCDN and WordPress integrates, and it will be a similar case for StackPath too. Though, it’s worth noting that we couldn’t find any pricing on StackPath’s website. This often indicates that you’ll need a substantial budget to afford its service. As such, this could be a deal-breaker for you. Try StackPath 2. Amazon CloudFront Amazon (of course) are an integral part of online shopping for millions of users. What’s more, there are various ‘wings’ of the brand, and you can find services such as audiobooks, and cloud computing too. Amazon’s CloudFront is their take on a CDN that’s worth investigating. CloudFront is one part of the whole Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering. As such, your AWS resource allocation includes millions of ‘function invocations’ for the platform. As you’d expect, you’re in good hands with CloudFront. Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Slack, and more all use the CDN to deliver content across the globe. This is down to a robust, enterprise-level set of features and functionality: There’s deep integration with the whole AWS network of

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