{"id":495,"date":"2024-08-15T14:41:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T14:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2024\/08\/15\/9745020-hostinger-website-builder-coming-soon-mode\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:01:43","slug":"9745020-hostinger-website-builder-coming-soon-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/9745020-hostinger-website-builder-coming-soon-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger Website Builder: Coming Soon Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">If you need to continue working on your site while it&rsquo;s not yet ready for public view, you can activate the &lsquo;Coming Soon&rsquo; mode.<\/p><p><\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>If you activate and publish the Coming soon mode feature<\/b>, it allows you to display a &lsquo;Coming Soon&rsquo; page to visitors. While this page is active, visitors trying to access any other part of your site will be redirected to this landing page. This works well if you want to hide your website from being visible online.<\/p><p><\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">You can toggle and edit the custom &ldquo;Coming Soon&rdquo; page by going to your site&rsquo;s editor, opening <b>Pages<\/b>, and selecting the <b>Coming Soon<\/b> section. Click the toggle to enable it:<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/4f92a4dd-2ec4-44d2-9db8-80eeda9e5f48.jpg\" data-media-id=\"2394\" alt=\"Website Builder pages panel with Coming soon toggle switched on\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">The default &ldquo;Coming Soon&rdquo; page includes text elements and social media icons, but you can customize it by adding other elements, such as a contact form:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/0b181edc-f936-4ea0-96e3-ef54d76cff20.jpg\" width=\"300\" data-media-id=\"2397\" alt=\"Hostinger Website Builder add elements panel with Text highlighted at top\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">After making your changes, <b>click the Update Website button to apply them to the live version of your site<\/b>, you can also find the steps on how to achieve this<b> <a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/6435697-website-builder-how-to-update-a-website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/b>.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Important Note<\/b>: While &lsquo;Coming Soon&rsquo; mode is active, your site will have a &lsquo;No-Follow&rsquo; tag, preventing search engines from indexing it. To make your site visible to search engines like Google, simply toggle the switch off near the Update\/Go Live button. Your site will then be displayed normally to all visitors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to setup a maintenance mode view for your users as an initial preview of your website before it&#8217;s fully ready to be launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pages-and-navigation"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/9745020-hostinger-website-builder-coming-soon-mode\/","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8753,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/8753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}