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LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder

v2.6.24

Easy Drag & Drop Page Builder that adds a splash page to your site that it's perfect for a coming soon page, maintenance or landing page.

by Themeisle

coming soonlanding pagemaintenance modesplash pageunder construction
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Rank
#134 24h 2 · 7d 2
Est. installs
489,638 High confidence
Total downloads
20M all time
Rating
4.3 ★ 874 reviews
Official installs
400,000+ public bucket
Support threads
1 last 2 months
Support resolved
100% of threads
Tested up to
WP 7.1.3 compatibility

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Maintenance & compatibility

24 days ago

Last release

Version
2.6.24
Requires WP
4.7
Requires PHP
7.1
On WP.org since
2010

About LightStart

LightStart is a WordPress plugin by Themeisle, first published on WordPress.org in 2010. It has 400,000+ active installations and 20,430,370 downloads in total, and ranks #134 in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Over the past week it climbed 2 places. Users rate it 4.3 out of 5 across 874 reviews. Version 2.6.24 was released 24 days ago, so the plugin is actively maintained. It is tested up to WordPress 7.1.3 and requires WordPress 4.7 and PHP 7.1 or later. In the last two months, 1 of 1 support thread was marked resolved (100%). It is listed under coming soon, landing page, maintenance mode, splash page and under construction. Plugins with a similar focus include CMP, Ultimate Coming Soon Page, Maintenance Mode & Under Construction and Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib.

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