Coming Soon

Coming Soon is a minimal Hugo theme designed to serve as a pre-launch placeholder page, so you can build hype or occupy your domain while your actual site is under development.

What is Coming Soon?

Coming Soon is a minimal Hugo theme built to display a coming soon page before your actual website goes live. It takes a Hugo site's content and configuration and renders a single, responsive landing page with SEO metadata. The theme is developed by Mansoor Barri and its demo can be viewed at https://cshugo.mansoorbarri.com. It is open source and licensed under GNU GPLv3.

Key Features

• Minimal design — A clean, distraction-free layout intended solely for a short pre-launch message, with no extra sections or blog functionality.
• Customisable — You can adapt the page content, text, and styling through standard Hugo configuration files and template overrides.
• Responsive — The layout adjusts to mobile, tablet, and desktop viewports without additional setup.
• SEO Ready — Includes meta tags and semantic HTML that help search engines index the placeholder page while you build out the real site.
• Easy installation — Install it as a git submodule with the command git submodule add https://github.com/mansoorbarri/coming-soon.git themes/coming-soon, following steps documented in the author's wiki.
• Fast performance — The author reports a Google PageSpeed Insights result in the README, indicating the theme is optimised for speed.
• Open source — Code is released under GNU GPLv3, allowing free use and modification with attribution obligations.

Who is it for?

• Developers building a new site — They can deploy a coming soon page immediately after purchasing a domain, replacing the default placeholder with a branded message.
• Startups and product teams — They can use the page to collect attention and build hype before a product launch.
• Freelancers and agencies — They can install the theme on client domains to show a professional pre-launch screen while the real site is in production.

Use cases

• Domain owners: Put a polished coming soon page on a newly registered domain so visitors see a branded page instead of an empty server directory.
• Campaign launches: Show countdown-style messaging (via custom text) while a product, event, or service is still under wraps.
• Static site developers: Combine the theme with any Hugo workflow, then host the generated static files on Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Pages, or any other static host.

How does it work?

The installation process is straightforward: add the theme as a git submodule to your Hugo project's themes directory, configure the site's config.toml (or hugo.yaml) to use it, and run Hugo to generate a static page. The theme focuses entirely on a single coming soon view, so the generated output is a lightweight, SEO-ready HTML page that can be pushed to any static host.

FAQ

Is the Coming Soon theme free?

Yes, the theme is open source and released under the GNU GPLv3 license. You can download, modify, and use it for personal or commercial projects, provided you comply with the license terms.

What platform does it run on?

It is a Hugo theme, so it requires Hugo's static site generator to build the site. The output is plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript processed by Hugo, and can be deployed on any static hosting service.

Can I customise the content?

Yes. The theme is built on standard Hugo template files. You can edit the content sections and variables in your Hugo configuration and override the theme's templates as needed.

How do I install the theme?

Add the theme as a git submodule in your Hugo project: git submodule add https://github.com/mansoorbarri/coming-soon.git themes/coming-soon, then set theme = "coming-soon" in your Hugo config file.

Does the theme include SEO features?

Yes, the README lists "SEO Ready" among its features, meaning it includes the necessary meta tags and semantic HTML structure for search engines.