Patch v1.1.0

[oussama-boukhachem]

Release notes

• Social links UI + frontend rendering (facebook, twitter, github, etc.)
• 503 maintenance mode toggle for search engines
• Google reCAPTCHA v3 protection on email subscription
• Webhook support (Mailchimp, SendGrid, custom endpoints)
• Rate limiting on subscribe endpoint (5 requests / 15 min per IP)
• Admin notification emails now rate-limited (1 per email per 24h)
• Security hardening: host header sanitization, defense-in-depth CSS output escaping
• Template refactor: options loaded once, not on every render
• Removed dead upload_media AJAX hook (was unregistered → fatal error)

Quick setup

1. Install and activate
2. Go to Coming Soon in your admin menu
3. Flip the toggle to enable
4. Pick a template, set your title/text
5. Done. Preview it to see how it looks.

Requirements

• WordPress 5.8+
• PHP 8.0+
• MySQL 5.6+

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