Genesis landing page help

[streak]

The devs have eventually decided to come to the party and to get the landing page to work correctly on their dime.
The offer now is to get it looking exactly the way we want it to look.

What is the general rule of thumb for the look and feel of a blank landing page?
Do we include the existing navigation buttons or do we make it a completely blank sheet and then populate it with our message complete with call to action buttons on it using one of the landing page plug ins to assist.

The intention is to use it as a destination for Google ad word campaigns.

Thanks again.

[Tom]

This is the landing page from Minimum Pro demo. That's pretty much it: a page with your page content only. In this case Minimum also has a background image, but generally not (Enterprise Pro landing page).

The point of a landing page is to provide a blank canvas with no distractions for visitors, so they can be captivated by your content and respond to your call to action. It is what you make it.

Sometimes the home page is referred to as a/the landing page because it's a common URL; sometimes people consider every page a landing page.

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[streak]

Thanks Tom.
Makes sense. Looks like I'll get them to give me a a plain white screen and then find a plugin to help construct the message.

By the way the SEO expert sub contracted by the devs, came back to me after I questioned him on why he editing the Genesis php files and his response was
"good question, I'll have to find out"! Makes me wonder why we paid good money for experts. The stuff I have been asking about on these pages to me seems pretty much like WP 101.

What would be the process to move the two edited Genesis files across to the child theme?

[Tom]

I understand that your SEO 'expert' originally edited files from the Genesis theme (i.e. the Framework) rather than files from the child theme. (Rule #1 about Genesis: Never edit the Genesis Framework files - just like you would never edit core WordPress files.)

So you need to be clear about where the "two edited Genesis files" actually came from before you determine where thy are going to: names, source location, what editing was actually done to these files?

For your landing page, there are commercial plugins available to help with this, or you can build it on your own, depending on what you want to achieve.

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[streak]

As far as I can see the original Genesis header and footer php files were edited only to include the Quantcast and Google Analytics tags.

If I understand correctly, to avoid these being overwritten with the next Genesis update, these files should be copied or moved to the Mulligan child theme or the tags should be placed in the Genesis theme settings, header and footer boxes as mentioned by Andrea above.
The footer box is currently empty and the header box currently contains

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.mulliganfunding.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/favicon6.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($){

/* prepend menu icon */
$('.nav-primary').prepend('<div id="menu-icon">Menu</div>');

/* toggle nav */
$("#menu-icon").on("click", function(){
$(".menu-primary").slideToggle();
$(this).toggleClass("active");
});

});
</script>

[Tom]

Sorry, I had thought you had also asked your 'SEO expert' to correct his work and properly locate the scripts for Google Analytics and Quantcast, which are still loading. If he has not done so, you should be able to relocate them to the header and footer boxes, respectively, in Genesis settings.

After reserving copies of the edited files (just in case), you should overwrite them with copies of the original Genesis files. This *should* return you to an unadulterated Genesis installation if nothing else has been tampered with and also not duplicate the script insertions.

Do you know: Are these the only in-site/on-page customizations done for your SEO?

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[streak]

I am not able to see the home page in the WP editor, I am not sure if this is some setting the devs have made to prevent me from from screwing with it. If click on HOME it just brings up an empty box in the WP editor. likewise if I try and edit the home page while viewing it.
All the other other internal pages have some of the boxes filled in SEO theme settings.

[nutsandbolts]

I assume they used Minimum's widgetized homepage, so you should look in the home widget areas under Appearance > Widgets for the content of your homepage. Or they might have used a custom template, which would explain why there's a blank page - it could be set to use a template they created.

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[streak]

Spot on Andrea, that's exactly where I found some of the home page details, mainly the text.
I'm still trying to see how the images are included.
Slowly thanks to you guys I am learning and will hopefully master this all a bit better soon.

[Tom]

@streak
I can help to explain the home page images and more. I've just had a quite a look at how your site has been built. Please contact me via http://keypresswp.com/contact/

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