ignore this review

It damaged my website. I use divi theme. My Homepage was without content. It costs me hours.

First time building a site and this plugin made it easy to set up a coming soon page.

amazing plugin. I used it for a landing and it was very easy to use

I had no problems or complaints with this plugin for quite a few years. Today I activated maintenance mode and the plugin downloaded (and activated) two seperate plugins, Optimole and Gutenberg Blocks ... which completly crosses the line for me. I deactivated and deleted all three immediately.

The app works well.

This plugin Installed an image optimization plugin without my permission!

Scared the hell out of me finding an image optimization plugin that I never installed. There is not even any deactivate button on that plugin. I deleted that from the server. Only found the clue where it came from when visiting this recently installed plugin advertising that image optimization plugin.

I've then removed this malicious plug-in immediately. I don't actually need a plugin to show a simple maintenance page. Just putting a index.html file on the root is enough to do that!

I do not recommend installing this plugin to any site.

I'm shocked that anyone would be OK with a plugin that installs and activates multiple other plugins without permission, and even when declined. On top of that, it's pretty spammy with ads within the UI.

LightStart installs (at least) Optimole, OtterBlocks (also by themeisle) and Social Icons Widget (by WPZoom) all without disclosing, and all without permission. I actually declined the prompt for templates and Optimole and it still installed anyway. At the time of this writing, the other two are not disclosed or prompted anywhere. This needs to at least be clearly outlined on the plugin page that installing this plugin comes with at least 3 other plugins. Better yet, just dont.

This behavior is gross and it is insane that this is allowed, let alone well reviewed. Stop it.

I've tried multiple coming soon add-ons, but this one fits my needs the best. I can use my own prepared coming soon page

I like how it work