Call for testing the new coming soon mode #47418
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Everything worked as expected for me in my test on an established localhost install using WPLocal to run the site. Having any Woo page (e.g. cart, checkout) go to the coming soon template is pretty slick. Excited to see this ship! As far as editing the template goes it took me a while to figure out that the background color was not set as an actual style, but was a setting on the "Coming Soon" block. I was expecting to find the setting in the styles for the coming soon block, not the settings for it. But I found it eventually all the same. |
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I don't think "Site visibility" needs its own tab on WooCommerce settings. Tabs are premium real estate. |
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Is "Site" the entire site or the "Store". If the Store, I'd recommend changing to "Store Visibility". I also agree with @webdados to pull it off the Settings tab. I wouldn't want them to "hunt" for it. But with most "maintenance" type plugins that I've worked with, they have it as a toggle on the Admin Bar across the top. And, at the two additional arrows, they reference "site" vs. "store". If it's really the store, having "site" could be confusing. |
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It would also be nice to set this up to optionally redirect to an existing page instead. That way if your home page is the same landing page as what you'd want people to see for this "coming soon" page, it would work. PS: I would be using this right now if I could. Such a great idea. |
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Another suggestion that might not be as exhausting to create the Coming Soon page, would be to allow users to create their own and select it like they do the remainder of the pages. Maybe put a "Coming Soon" or "Site Visibility" area on that page. This way if they want to create customized pages at various times or swap them out, they'd only need to create it and then set the page here. But there would be a default like what's there now but add this so they have an option. |
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I did a walk through via video - https://www.screencast.com/t/YykSpLfi On Site Visibility - Coming Soon, I'd would have that open because as you can see from my video, I was confused. What I was seeing didn't look like the image above. There are quite a few users who might also get confused if they do not see the toggles at first glance when they go to the Settings page. How can the message on the Shop page be modified? I know from my own audience of users, that will be the first thing they look for or send a message seeking how to change. I offer tech support and provide theme support and I can pretty much bet that will be one of the first questions a user will contact support for. When setting the "Shop only" to Coming Soon mode, if an existing site has products on the front or WooCommerce products blocks scattered around, i.e., on other pages, sidebar, etc., they'll need to be reminded to remove that section from their site. I was expecting that area to disappear or render some sort of message on the block, not stay Live. At the 3:28 mark I said this section was Kadence but it's not. It's the default "Newest Products" Block in WooCommerce. So if that was left there and they turned on Coming Soon mode, shouldn't these products disappear? Shouldn't there be a message like on the Shop page? |
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On the Private Link, it works, however, when I toggle it off, the Save button doesn't activate. When I go to he site incognito that link is still Live. Should the Save button light up to save turning off the Preview? I cleared the cache in the site and browser and the Shop still appears. I think I need to be able to save it. |
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@adrianduffell I just created a brand new staging on WPE. And I noticed after going back and forth toggling on and off settings, that there's caching going on. I am Live testing in Firefox but checking the site in FireFox Incognito. And when I toggle the settings - I have to clear the WPE caching for the pages to go offline or to come back online. More testing might be needed on various hosting platforms. Will there be a way to cache exclude any functionality in this? I'm going to turn off "object cache" to see if that helps. |
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With themes not using the Site Editor, when we click on the "Editor" link to customize the landing page, it shows an error: And, in the frontend, we see the "Coming Soon" template is added along with the header and footer: In that case, the only option is to either use a theme with Site Editor to edit the template or not to use the Site Visibility Settings. |
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Catching another issue here. In my testing I'm seeing that when the "Restrict to store pages only" option is used, the privacy policy page is also restricted. AFAIK this is a Core WP setting and not actually a WooCommerce store page, despite being used by WooCommerce. Should we be restricting this page from view? It seems that an established site that wants to restrict store pages may want to leave their privacy policy available for their users. |
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We are planning to introduce a new coming soon mode to WooCommerce in an upcoming version. This aims to allow new merchants to build their store in private, while growing their online presence with a coming soon page. It is coupled with a new "Launch Your Store" setup task which aims to give users more confidence taking their store live.
What to test
If you have a moment, we’d love to hear your feedback! Specifically, we’d love to hear how you find using the new "Site visibility" settings tab and templates for the coming soon mode. The nightly build of WooCommerce contains the feature. Just upload
woocommerce-trunk-nightly.zip
into a suitable test environment or spin up a WP Playground!Once the nightly is uploaded, a new badge appears on the WooCommerce Admin home screen, indicating the status of the site and providing a dropdown to quickly access these features.
Site visibility settings
The coming soon mode is controlled by a new tab in WooCommerce settings.
When in coming soon mode, additional toggles appear.
Existing stores will default to live mode, while new stores that complete the profiler will default to coming soon mode. The following logic dictates whether the coming soon protection applies to the whole site or is restricted to store pages only:
Please try switching between live and coming soon modes. Does the front-end change appropriately? If not, what hosting setup do you have? Note: you will need to view the front-end as a non-admin user (use a private window or another browser).
Coming soon templates
Don't like the purple? The coming soon page template is fully-customizable in the WordPress Editor.
How easy/difficult do you find editing this template? We intend for the editing experience to be as close to 1:1 with the front-end as possible. If you find something that doesn't render properly on the front-end, let us know and state the theme being used.
Additionally, when the "Restrict to store pages only" toggle is enabled, the template will adjust to the active theme and render a header or footer.
Known issues
Over to you!
Thanks for contributing and helping to shape this feature! All feedback is much appreciated.
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