Best Way to Use Wordpress In IM?

by momo3
8 replies
I've recently fallen in love with Wordpress.

Its so great for content pages, etc.

But I still desire to make the raw domain page as a static HTML page.

What are your thoughts?

Do others do this?

Is it best to do it ALL in wordpress?

Are many people doing wordpress landing pages with many navigational options? Is the long form sales pitch dying?

I kind of feel that Google will eventually really filter out long-form pitches, as they already do with Adwords.

What are your thoughts?

What is the best design for a wordpress site for an IM'er?
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  • Profile picture of the author momo3
    Also, I feel that making sales pitches is difficult in WP -- with the font size issues and other stuff. What are your thoughts?
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  • Profile picture of the author Vincenzo Oliva
    You can do it all in wordpress, and most of the time better. There's no reason to really ever use anything else. You can do a sales page, landing page, squeeze page, membership site, blog, ecommerce store. I don't use xsitepro or dreamweaver anymore.
    Why waste a couple hours building something when you can just activate a few plugins ;-)
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  • Profile picture of the author momo3
    Can you tell me which plugins you're using and recommend?
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  • Profile picture of the author webapex
    Wordpress Pages more close resemble static html than posts, but a lot of pages don't navigae as easily as posts. A compromise is to:
    have 2 pages already cerated
    go to setting - Read
    and make the first page static, picking the second page to becomes the post index.

    At least you can layout and decorate the first page more easily that way.

    There are plugin that allow you to mix different page types into your wp navigation system, even odd site stuff, for starters see the Easy Post Types andPage Links To plugins.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    With a theme prepared for WP 3.x.x. you don't even need those plugins for "navigation". You can put ANYTHING in your custom menus...
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  • Profile picture of the author momo3
    Thanks guys.

    Anyone else have their favorite plugins for IM related stuff? I'd love to get a lil list going..
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    • Profile picture of the author yourreviewer
      Take a look at Optimize Press, you can create beautiful looking squeeze pages, salespages, membership pages and even have a blog. It may also be worth looking into JV Press, though I have personally not used it, I have heard equally good things about JV Press.
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  • Profile picture of the author momo3
    Wonderful. Thank you. What about flexsqueeze? Has anyone checked out that product?
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