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ComingSoon

WordPress Theme: ComingSoon

February 5th, 2010 | 2 Comments | 718 views
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The other day a client that we are developing a new website for a start-up wine business for, wanted a provisional “under construction” site up to be able to use it as a point of reference for his potential customers.

The Launchpad WordPress theme immediately came to mind, but we wanted a little bit more than just a link to FeedBurner.

After we put together this provisional website, we kept playing around with it for a while and all of a sudden a new WordPress theme was born!

We added a sleek Theme Settings Page where you can adjust almost all colors, the width of the theme and add your FeedBurner feed details.

Installing

Installing the ComingSoon WordPress theme is easy. We assume here that you are starting with a fresh WordPress install.

  • Unzip the downloaded file
  • Just (S)FTP the theme directory to wp-content/themes/
  • Activate the theme
  • Under Appearance you will see an additional menu-item called “ComingSoon Settings”, here you can adjust a couple of settings: (wrapper width, text color, link color, border settings, wrapper background as well as your FeedBurner address)

Use

  • Set your website’s name in General Options, the Description, for example “Under Construction” will be shown in the <title>
  • Install the latest Contact Form 7 plugin; we recommend using this plugin as as we added some coding in the CSS that only works for the first form of Contact Form 7
  • Change the Hello World Post into your own content
  • Change the About Page to the Contact Page
  • If you find that the ComingSoon Settings area doesn’t have enough styling-options, you can of course always have a go at the CSS.

Screenshots

Contact Page404 PageSettings Panel

Credits

Credits come when credits are due.

  • The ComingSoon WordPress theme is inspired by the LaunchPad theme of Ian Stewart. The code is largely based upon Launchpad, so a double thanks to Ian!
  • The sleek Theme Settings Page is created with the WordPress Theme Toolkit by planetOzh.

2 Responses to “ComingSoon”

  1. Freddie says:
    February 18, 2010 at 17:42

    Great WordPress theme! Thanks we’re using it over at http://www.facebook-developer.com/

    Reply

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