LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder

Changelog

Version 2.6.24 (2026-09-29)

• Fixed cached live pages showing after enabling Coming Soon mode through the setup wizard.
• Fixed selected-page maintenance mode to return HTTP 503 responses.
• Fixed block-theme maintenance pages to render without the PHP DOM extension.
• Fixed LightStart to restore the original homepage setting when maintenance mode ends.
• Fixed the missing Settings link in the LightStart row on the Plugins screen.
• Added AI agent support: let AI assistants turn maintenance mode on or off and change your LightStart settings.
• Updated dependencies

Version 2.6.23 (2026-07-29)

• Strengthened the automated testing that runs behind the scenes, helping catch problems earlier and making future releases more reliable
• Fixed an existing page selected as the maintenance page being left private and returning a 404 after maintenance mode was turned off, and its content being overwritten when a template was applied
• Fixed the chat bot on small screens, where the avatar was hidden and the chat box did not fit the phone display
• Fixed template imports staying stuck on Importing when the request failed — the error is now shown and the import can be retried without reloading the page
• Fixed a parse error that broke the setup wizard on PHP 7.1 and 7.2
• Updated dependencies

Version 2.6.22 (2026-05-19)

• Updated dependencies

Version 2.6.21 (2026-04-06)

• Updated dependencies

Version 2.6.20 (2025-09-04)

• Updated dependencies

Version 2.6.19 (2025-07-11)

• Improved onboarding wizard

Version 2.6.18 (2025-05-27)

• Updated dependencies

Version 2.6.17 (2025-04-16)

• Updated dependencies

Version 2.6.16 (2025-01-10)

• Fixed compatibility issue with WordPress 6.7
• Fixed broken onboarding layout

Version 2.6.15 (2024-12-04)

• Codebase changes.

Version 2.6.14 (2024-11-11)

• Fixed conflict with WPForms
• Updated dependencies

Version 2.6.13 (2024-10-14)

• Codebase updates.

Version 2.6.12 (2024-09-17)

Bug Fixes

• Compatibility with Elementor: Fixes a compatibility issue with Elementor.
• Fixes Checkbox Styles: Fixes a styling issue with Checkbox in the wizard that makes it almost invisible on screen.

Version 2.6.11 (2024-04-18)

Improvements

​- Updated internal dependencies:​​ Enhanced performance and security.

Version 2.6.10 (2024-02-28)

Fixes

• Updated dependencies

Version 2.6.9 (2023-12-22)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed compatibility issue with WP 6.4
• Fixed broken templates layout issue on the Safari browser
• Enhanced security
• Fixed compatibility issue with WP-Optimize

Version 2.6.8 (2023-06-07)

• Fix the Save button Module tab not working
• Codebase updates

Version 2.6.7 (2023-04-01)

• Bug fix: Addressed an unnecessary ‘no maintenance page’ error occurrence.

Version 2.6.6 (2023-03-31)

• Remove error notice for users that use an overriding custom template
• Update dependencies

Version 2.6.5 (2023-03-01)

Update dependencies

Version 2.6.4 (2023-02-24)

• Add the option to manage maintenance status on all sites from the network dashboard
• Update dependencies

Version 2.6.3 (2023-02-06)

• Update dependencies

Version 2.6.2 (2022-12-16)

• Add the option in the wizard to skip importing a template and installing Otter
• Improve the quality of the template screenshots
• Fix the template overriding issue

Version 2.6.1 (2022-11-03)

• Add a notice to announce the rebrand of the plugin

Version 2.6.0 (2022-11-02)

• Adds Landing pages templates
• Adds more Coming soon and Maintenance mode templates
• Rebrand the plugin into LightStart

Version 2.5.4 (2022-10-10)

• Fix subscribers entry export for legacy forms.
• Fix PHP notice showing up on edge cases new installs.

Version 2.5.3 (2022-09-28)

• Fix wrong template loaded when the current post template is empty.

Version 2.5.2 (2022-09-27)

• Fix maintenance mode issue for previously logged users #321
• Allow comments into exclude textarea so that you can comment on the IP addresses for location, props @joostdekeijzer
• Fix PHP notice errors on specific scenarios #324
• Fix Otter for saving subscriber entry

Version 2.5.1 (2022-09-08)

• Fixes a bug which was causing error on some instances

Version 2.5.0 (2022-09-08)

• New Feature: Adds compatibility with Block Editor or any page builder for building the maintenance mode page.
• New Feature: Adds coming soon and maintenance mode starting templates.

Version 2.4.7 (2022-08-08)

Fixes

• Fix login form display
• Fix email collecting by the bot
• Improve accessibility of the maintenance page thanks to @SophieWeb

Version 2.4.6 (2022-06-15)

• Improve data sanitizations for custom css and contact module

Version 2.4.5 (2022-06-15)

• Harden security and improve release process

Version 2.4.4 (2022-02-10)

Update dependencies

Version 2.4.3 (2022-01-27)

• Change ownership to Themeisle

2.4.2 (18/01/2022)

• Misc: 900 000 Active Installs Celebrations!
• Misc: WordPress 5.9 compatibility
• Fix: jQuery UI CSS theme reference from jQuery CDN
• Misc: Text fixes in the dashboard

2.4.1 (20/07/2021)

• Misc: WordPress 5.8 compatibility

2.4.0 (13/05/2021)

• Design: add “Custom CSS” setting; Finally! 🙂
• Design: add “Footer links” color setting
• Design: add a list of available shortcodes under the “Text” editor
• Bot: make {visitor_name} placeholder work in all messages after the visitor types his name
• Misc: add [embed] shortcode for responsive video embeds; Compatible with YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion.
• Misc: make the exclude mechanism work with Cyrillic characters
• Misc: add wpmm_maintenance_template filter; It works the same way as the wpmm_contact_template filter, but for the maintenance template.
• Misc: now you can override the contact email template too; Check /views/contact.php for more details.
• Misc: better compatibility with translation plugins like Loco Translate
• Misc: the image uploaders (from the dashboard) are now translatable
• Misc: improve uninstall routine
• Misc: add wpmm_delete_cache action; It is called after each setting change.
• Misc: add support for cache plugins like WP Rocket, WP Fastest Cache, Endurance Page Cache, Swift Performance Lite, Cache Enabler, SG Optimizer, LiteSpeed Cache, Nginx Helper;
• Misc: remove wpmm_count_where helper function
• Misc: code improvements

2.3.0 (07/12/2020)

• Modules: add support for Google Analytics 4 measurement ID
• Design: enable media buttons on wp_editor (now you can add images from the editor)
• Bot: fix translation issue
• Misc: add filters for capabilities wpmm_settings_capability, wpmm_subscribers_capability, and wpmm_all_actions_capability (the last one can be used to override all capabilities)
• Misc: fix [loginform] shortcode redirect attribute
• Misc: a few CSS & Javascript improvements
• Misc: bump “Tested up to” version to 5.6

2.2.4 (20/05/2019)

• bump “Tested up to” to 5.2.0
• fix typo in Italian translation (it_IT)
• Bot: add a note about how you can export the list of subscribers #195
• Bot: add client-side sanitization to the input fields #176

2.2.3 (20/02/2019)

• bump “Tested up to” version to 5.1.0
• replace “wpmu_new_blog” action with “wp_initialize_site” action for WP 5.1.0 users because the first one is deprecated in the new version
• small improvement to “check_exclude” method from “WP_Maintenance_Mode” class

2.2.2 (27/11/2018)

• Google Analytics module: migrate from analytics.js to gtag.js + add ip anonymization #178
• GDPR module: accept links inside texareas + add policy link target #188
• add charset meta tag #200
• fix PHP Notice: Undefined index: HTTP_USER_AGENT
• add plural and single form translation for subscribers number (settings page)

Earlier versions

For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the full changelog.