Severe bug: on 404 page, site shown instead coming soon page

it appears its’ not happening all the time.
I found it by chance, when browsing to
mydomain.com/wp-login (and not wp-login.php) and i’ve surprisingly got the site’s 404 page.

Sounds like the theme is taking priority. The plugin runs a priority 10. Try the default theme and see if you have the same issue.

The plugin does work on 404 pages but another plugin or theme can override it.

Thanks, I’ll check that and update.

This bug appears to exist for the default Twenty Fifteen theme. Can’t give a link. I had to edit the 404.php to display a static HTML page. Everything else seems to be working great.

I’ll take a look! Thanks for the bug report.

Actually I just tested and it works fine for me with the Twenty Fifteen theme on 404 pages. Must be some other factor with your setup.

Hmmm… I deactivated all of my plugins and still see the problem. Must be some combination of settings, or something with the host. I’ll have to be satisfied with the simplified 404 for now.
Thanks for looking into it!

I just spotted this bug on ALL of our sites on different hosts – GoDaddy, 1&1, Heart, 123 Reg. So it isn’t host specific.

I found it by accidentally mistyping the URL for wp-admin – so I typed “wep-admin” and I get the 404 page instead of the coming soon page.

With further testing, ANYTHING with admin in the url seems to do the same:

mysite.com/typo-admin
mysite.com/AGGHHH-adminSGSG

All reveal the 404 which in our case is branded, shows menus, footer, site design etc. so not great ??

The plugin exclude url with certain terms. You can disable this feature here in the plugin. https://goo.gl/zMi4Nd

Try that!