How to build a sales/presell page?

[Peter]

I would like to learn how to build a ‘sales/presell page page with the genesis framework.
Is it possible to totally strip down a theme to a similar appearance to this for example:

http://zerotoherostory.com/
http://affiliatebully.com/
http://tinylittlebusinesses.com/

These are build with thesis.

I bought the Minimum pro theme and the Focus theme for former projects, would I be able to do this kind of thing with one of them?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Pixel Frau]

This should help: http://www.wpstuffs.com/create-landing-page-genesis-child-theme/

Minimum Pro comes with a landing page template. You need to choose the 'Landing' template under 'Page Attributes' for that specific page.

If you want to alter what is shown/hidden on the landing page, you'd need to play with these parts of the page_landing.php.

//* Force full width content layout
add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_full_width_content' );

//* Remove site header elements
remove_action( 'genesis_header', 'genesis_header_markup_open', 5 );
remove_action( 'genesis_header', 'genesis_do_header' );
remove_action( 'genesis_header', 'genesis_header_markup_close', 15 );

//* Remove navigation
remove_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'genesis_do_nav', 15 );
remove_action( 'genesis_footer', 'genesis_do_subnav', 7 );

//* Remove Minimum after header
remove_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'minimum_site_tagline' );

//* Remove breadcrumbs
remove_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'genesis_do_breadcrumbs' );

//* Remove site footer widgets
remove_action( 'genesis_before_footer', 'genesis_footer_widget_areas' );

//* Remove site footer elements
remove_action( 'genesis_footer', 'genesis_footer_markup_open', 5 );
remove_action( 'genesis_footer', 'genesis_do_footer' );
remove_action( 'genesis_footer', 'genesis_footer_markup_close', 15 );

[Peter]

Thank you for your reply @Pixel Frau.

The problem was there wasn’t a page attributes box with landing page template to be seen. Eventually I reinstalled WordPress, Genesis and the minimum Pro child theme and then the page attributes box showed up when I added a new page.

I created the new page, chose landing page under page attributes, and in general settings – reading – I checked the “show static page” box. But I still had the normal look of the minimum pro child theme on the homepage, with the site title in the header and the grey header banner thing. It wasn' showing my landing page on the homepage.

the solution for this: The theme has a custom home page layout that conflicts with setting your landing page as the home page. You just have to rename frontpage.php to something else, like frontpage-old.php (or delete the file from the server).

[Pixel Frau]

A landing page is different than the home page. 🙂

You'd need to either modify front-page.php to modify the home page layout or, as you've done, remove/rename it and assign the landing page as the home page in the WordPress settings.

Glad you were able to find a solution.

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