I have been wanting to learn how to make a landing page to use with a wordpress page then I came across this video that explains a great simple way to make one. This will work for any type of page you want to link with your wordpress blog.
This Landing Page Video is useful video below but a little outdated as of this update August 14, 2009 (and again April 2010). Still it will show you some of the ways things work. In fact everything works much the same
Basically he adds the template code and normal html with nothing else to make a template.
I did it a little different on a friends site that is using wp 2.92 and not the Thesis theme. I downloaded the page.php from the theme, added the code to make it a template as in the video, then removed the header, sidebar, and footer code.
So I added
< ?php
/*
Template Name: landingpage
*/
?>
at the top.
Then removed these lines:
< ?php get_header(); ?>
< ?php get_sidebar(); ?>
< ?php get_footer(); ?>
This way the page can be edited like any page right in WordPress but will not have a header, sidebar, or footer.
The result can be seen here:
http://recipes-for-detox-diet.com/test-landing-page/
Of course you could experiment and leave your header and/or footer, or not.
I did this experiment and added this html code in another wordpress page I made while set to html in the edit page section and am getting the title to show in the browser:
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
head>
meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type">
title>title>
meta>head>
(I had to remove the < and "< "/" from the code or it does not show up in the post, don't forget to use those)
UPDATE 8/31/2010
I found out if I were to remove the code on the page that looks like this (it may vary a little depending on the theme) :
h2>” title=”< ?php the_title(); ?>”>< ?php the_title(); ?>
In the landingage, which I took out of the theme, page.php, and edited the code is only:
h2>< ?php the_title(); ?>
(the h2 tag is incorrect to show in this post, and I have no idea why WP rendered that code as a link above)) then you will not have the wordpress page title showing. You may want to keep it for seo purposes but you may have to think it through to have something that will fit for the content on that page.
The final code on the sample page now is:
< ?php
/*
Template Name: landingpage
*/
?>< ?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
< ?php the_title(); ?>
< ?php the_content("
__('Read the rest of this page')
"); ?>
< ?php edit_post_link(__('Edit'), '
', '
'); ?>
< ?php endwhile; endif; ?
I think I may have some un-needed DIV's in there but it is working.
I could go on to test Meta keywords and Meta Description and one other idea is to start with the wordpress default theme page.php but it is getting late so I will leave that to you to try.
The really easiest, best and fastest way to have many wordpress landing pages is to use the fantastic Thesis Theme. This blog is using the thesis theme. You also get total support from them. One very cool thing you can do easily with the thesis theme is choose to have the landing page title show or not show in your blog theme. I like that and find it very useful. A particular sales page title may not fit in the scheme of my blog and I may just want to only like to it from inside posts or articles where I can do the right amount of pre-selling to improve conversions.
In the video below he just takes this code, saves it in a text editor as a .php, then adds html code below it.
< ?php<br />
/*<br />
Template Name: landingpage<br />
*/<br />
?>
Ultimately you will want to experiment to find the right option for your theme and goals.
There is a nicely done Set of WordPress Landing Pages done just for The Thesis Theme you might want to see here . They work by simply writing the name of the page you want into the CSS Class box in any Thesis page editing window. There are several to choose from and with a little study you could probably even create some.
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This Blog is Thesis 1.8, the latest version. It's sweet, check the tech on it.
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A few Simple Tips For website customization to make a proffesional looking page that produces sales. Color Scheme and Theme always choose matching colors, and example would be a dark background with visible words and designs, with a dark theme try not to mix too many bright colors into the design. What we should never do is mix colors like purple and yellow that is if you want a proffesional looking website personal websites do what you want. The Theme of the Website should match the company of organization if you have a website that was made to cater for a food company, it would be wise to stick with that category, rather than changing to a different theme like machinery. Your fonts should be used in regard to the formality of the website, a simple sans-serif of tahoma would suffice in most cases. There are always exceptions like if your website is for design or art groups you may want to use more fanciful designs and fonts.
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Great blog. What an excellent discussion.
Outstanding! thanks for creating this video, I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out a way to do this. I was in fact considering going to elance to hire someone.
Thanks a lot!
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Hi,
you have exellent post, its amazing, This is giving good information it’s a real informative blog, Continue posting new blogs like this one.
Great video, I’ll be doing this asap. Cheers.
Hi there!
Excellent post and video!, Really helpful.
I wanna to make some selling pages and I think this would be very useful for me.
Best Regards!
how can i keep a page from appearing in my menus and page list, but still be able to access it from the slug?
(i’ve tried to make it private or pass word protected, but when it’s private i can only see it if i’m logged in…hmmm) frustrating
I do that with the Thesis Theme. It is a built in option for any page, to make it show or not. There is also an option in the menu when you are making or editing a page. Look for it.
I am very lucky that I found your page within 30 min of search….I was exactly looking for that information…I must say your page is highly relevant to the search terms…Thanks
Dude you rock. Even though it’s an old video, I was able to make it just following your video. EASY AS PIE.
Big thanks.
Seems not to work for me.
Wordpress MU 2.8.6 Thesis 1.6.
I either get PHP errors or just a blank page ? not sure where to start. I have been searching for days for a solution to easy ( do-able) customised pages and thought this was an easy answer….
Thesis is simple, just add the page template when you make the page. I never used thesis in MU that could be the source of the problem. You will have to check with the Thesis Forum to find out.
Thanks for the tip. Was trying to make a landing page for my affiliate page.
This looks exactly what I need. Do I follow these exact same instructions with Thesis 1.6? I’m so new to this I need to follow step by step, and videos are fantastic for that.
I’ll give it a go. If there are other/different steps due to the upgrade in 1.6, if you get a chance, please let me know.
Many thanks..
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In Thesis you just have to select the page template that has header only.
I never use DIY Themes, from the video it seems easy to customize, may be i should give a try for this
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Thank you for sharing. I try to find best wordpress landing page.
I think I might bookmark this one. I was looking for how to create a page like this in WP months ago. Thanks for the video.
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Great post, plenty of people always looking for ways to make the wordpress functionality easier in their online endeavours. Some neat little tricks that I might just have to try myself hey!
Keep the great posts coming.
Hello, nice post.
I have a question, when my site browse for example example.com, In first, I want it to redirect to the page what we called landing page but when I click the logo or home may go to example.com but with the homepage not the landing page.
Any reply is very appreciated…..
Thanks very much…
@Jho sorry I really do not understand your question, can you clarify the problem?
very nice!!!
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