How to make a very simple landing page? (Newbie help)

[Yossif]

Hi everyone. I need help, I'm still very new to this and I barely know any coding whatsoever. I'm using the generate theme.

I'm trying to make a very simple landing page. I'd like to make with no menu, no sidebar, nothing. Just a simple white page.

When I try to use the "Landing" template on the page editor, it removes most of it, but I still get the generate box, the comment sections, my hook-based ads, etc.
How do I make all the landing pages not load that extra stuff?

I found this bit of code:

if ( !is_page_template('page_landing.php') )

But how do I use it?

Thanks!
-Yossif

[Yossif]

I also found this page:

Sales Page Template in Genesis

I think it would be great if it looked like that but I have no idea how to make a .php file or how to apply it to my blog. Can anyone help me with making this?

[CleanPageDom]

Hi there

To make a .php file, open up notepad or your favourite text editor, copy and paste the code from Sridhar's site into the blank doc, then save it as the name he suggests.

Then you'll need to upload it to your theme file over FTP. It should sit under WP-Content/Themes/YOUR THEME NAME - you'll see functions.php in there as well.

Then copy and paste the new CSS into the style.css file.

When you go to create a new page now, you should have the option in the dropdown to the right to choose "Sales" as a template.

Hope that makes sense. Let me know if not.

Thanks
Dom

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[Yossif]

Thanks Dom, that seemed to do it...

However, I'm still having issues with my various genesis hooks displaying ads as well as my generate box showing up. Is there a way to disable all of that within only this page?

Maybe something withif ( !is_page_template('page_landing.php') ) or replace it with if ( !is_page_template('page_sales.php') )??

Thanks!
-Yossif

[CleanPageDom]

It's not a perfect fix, but can you do something like this in your CSS (please check all of the elements with inspect element or similar first):

.page-id-X .generate-box {
display: none;
}

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[Yossif]

Thanks, but I'm still really confused where to use this. I'm very very basic with coding, hell I don't know the difference between PHP and CSS yet... So please bear with me....

Here's the contents of my generate box plugin, hopefully this has something I can change to use this command?
http://pastebin.com/QPsDWyWq

I tried to inspect the element, but wasn't sure what I was looking at once I was looking at the guts of the website. If you'd like to look at it yourself, the website is http://angrynutrition.com/

I'm guessing something needs to be changed to

if ( !is_page_template('page_sales.php') .generate-box {
display: none;
} )

(I think? Sorry, still very new to all of this!)

Thank you for your help so far!
-Yossif

[CleanPageDom]

Oh, OK. So what I suggested would need to go in your style.css file. It can go anywhere, but I would suggest putting it somewhere logical (ie below the Nav rules so it sits neatly with the flow of the web pages) and comment it up inside /* */ tags for reference.

For example, looking at your home page:
body.home #generate_box { display: none; }

would remove the Generate box from the home page. So if you fire up your landing page and view page source, then do a find for "page-id-" then you'll see the page id. Then go:

body.page-id-X #generate_box { disply: none; }

That should remove the Generate box from the landing page.

Good work on the fitness, by the way. I'm becoming something of a fitness geek myself.

Dom

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[Carlo]

Hi Yossif. You don't want to add any CSS code (i.e. display: none;) to do this. What you actually want to do is edit the template page_landing.php. It should have a series of lines starting with remove_action and you'll want to add more of these to remove each element of the page that you don't want. Can you share the link to the page you're talking about?

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[CleanPageDom]

Thanks Carlo. Yes, I thought display: none; would be a quick, rather than an ideal, fix.

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[Yossif]

OK, I managed to get rid of the generate box like Dom suggested. Thank you for that Dom!

Here's the page in question.

OK so now I'd like to remove the ghook-based ad's and the primary menu bar.

I used the simple hooks plugin to add the ad's code, so do I need to go through and remove all the stuff like genesis_before_post_content Hook with thisdisplay: none; code? Or maybe there's something I can use to just disable all the hooks on this given page?

Regarding the menu, based on the inspect code, would I alter something likeid="subnav or id="menu-secondary??

Regarding what Carlo said, can stick that same bit of code into the page_sale.php and get the same thing as the style.css edit?

Thanks for all the help again!
-Yossif

PS: Thanks for kind words, Dom. What's your favorite type of exercise?

[Yossif]

Sorry, page has been moved to here:

diet myths ebook landing page

-Yossif

[CleanPageDom]

Hi Yossif

I think what Carlo is suggesting (and please correct me if I'm wrong, Carlo) is to add some more rules to the page template that you uploaded via ftp. Where Sridhar has, for example:

remove_action( 'genesis_after', 'genesis_footer_widget_areas' );

which will remove the footer widgets areas, there will be equivalent remove_action commands to get rid of the generate box etc. The benefit of this method is that a) it's actually the correct way to do things, and b) if you end up with multiple landing pages, you won't need to add additional CSS rules for each page - the CSS i gave you is page-specific.

Now, unfortunately, I'm not overly familiar with these hooks and actions etc. Carlo sounds much more knowledgable than me on this. So, if you want my quick, hack(y) fix for one page only, then go:

body.page-id-2035 #generate_box,
body.page-id-2035 #subnav,
body.page-id-2035 #respond,
body.page-id-2035 #footer-widgets {
display: none;
}

You might struggle to get rid of those iframe ad boxes though.

Hopefully Carlo can suggest the php way to do things with the page template.

As for fitness, I was huge as a teenager/early-20s, lost about 40lbs just through giving up a lot of alcohol and walking more, then started doing endurance and multi-sport about five years ago. Currently training for four triathlons and a duathlon this year. Trying out the Stronglifts 5x5 programme at the minute, along with sport-specific training and HIIT.

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[Yossif]

Yep, your code seems to have worked.

It may not be ideal, but hey, if it works, it works.

Let's see what Carlo might suggest for the rest of it, but at least we're a little closer now. I'm also getting more experienced as I mess around with this stuff... I'm not scared that a tiny little change will crash the site! (as it was doing earlier haha)

Those are some impressive activities you got going, Dom! It's pretty similar to what I've done in the past, but I don't think I could do a Triathalon/duathlon... that's some hardcore stuff! Good for you man.

-Yossif

[Carlo]

Hi Yossif. Dom is correct about what I was talking about.

To remove the comments from the page, you actually just turn them off in the page editing screen. The option is located in the Discussion section, which you may need to show by clicking on Screen Options if it's not already showing.

This is the code you want to add to the template page_sales.php, anywhere between the line <?php and the line genesis();:

remove_action( 'genesis_before_footer', 'genesis_footer_widget_areas' );
remove_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'genesis_do_subnav' );
remove_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'display_generate_box', 15 );

That will remove the generate box, subnav and the footer widgets.

The ads are going to be more difficult to remove because you used the Simple Hooks plugin, which is called Simple for a reason. It's really designed for if you want to add content to every page, not some pages. This is where it becomes difficult to help you out without access to your code.

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[Yossif]

Yes that worked, Carlo. Thanks to you both for the help so far.

However, I'm still unable to get rid of the secondary menu and the ghook-based ads. Is there something I can use to remove those or disable them within that same php?

looks like the menu is something with "subnav" or "menu-secondary"?

The ad that is in the way is on the "genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap" Hook. Can I disable it somehow for this page?

Here's the page in question again: http://angrynutrition.com/10-diet-myths-ebook/

Thanks for the help!!
-Yossif

[Yossif]

OK I feel dumb. There already was a pre-made landing page template with everything already programmed in!

As for removing the ads, I found another thread with the similar issue, and this bit of code in the ghooks took care of it:

<?php
 
if( is_page_template( ‘landing.php’ ) )
        return;
  
// add your adsense code for display
 
?>

So there you have it, all is good to go. Thanks for help guys!
-Yossif

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