Question on Optimizepress

[Kenneth Holland]

Hello,

From what I understand, this is my main issue with Opitimizepress...

Since it's a 'theme', I CANNOT use it in conjunction with my existing theme, am I correct in this assumption?

I know I cannot use a squeeze page on a new domain when I'm doing Adwords (yes I advertise Squeeze pages on Adwords) because I don't have all the neccessary pages (content, privacy, etc...).

So if I use OP (for example) it has to be the theme of my whole blog.

Does anyone use this theme for their blog by chance?

Ken

[dwooding]

Ken,

You can use Optimizepress in conjuction with your existing theme.

Optimizepress is for Wordpress pages (not posts).

You use Optimizepress on a particular page by selecting one of the many templates provided (look under Page Attributes on the right hand side when you are creating a page).

Dave

Originally Posted by Kenneth Holland

Hello,

From what I understand, this is my main issue with Opitimizepress...

Since it's a 'theme', I CANNOT use it in conjunction with my existing theme, am I correct in this assumption?

I know I cannot use a squeeze page on a new domain when I'm doing Adwords (yes I advertise Squeeze pages on Adwords) because I don't have all the neccessary pages (content, privacy, etc...).

So if I use OP (for example) it has to be the theme of my whole blog.

Does anyone use this theme for their blog by chance?

Ken

[WillR]

Originally Posted by dwooding

Ken,

You can use Optimizepress in conjuction with your existing theme.

Optimizepress is for Wordpress pages (not posts).

You use Optimizepress on a particular page by selecting one of the many templates provided (look under Page Attributes on the right hand side when you are creating a page).

Dave

Optimize Press is a theme and it does support blog posts now. As far as I know you cannot run two themes at the same time.

[Kenneth Holland]

Originally Posted by dwooding

Ken,

You can use Optimizepress in conjuction with your existing theme.

Optimizepress is for Wordpress pages (not posts).

You use Optimizepress on a particular page by selecting one of the many templates provided (look under Page Attributes on the right hand side when you are creating a page).

Dave

So I CAN use it with my existing theme??

Originally Posted by WillR

Optimize Press is a theme and it does support blog posts now. As far as I know you cannot run two themes at the same time.

So if it won't do posts and I can't use my existing theme then this is where I'm lost. Why don't they explain this??

[WillR]

Originally Posted by Kenneth Holland

So I CAN use it with my existing theme??

So if it won't do posts and I can't use my existing theme then this is where I'm lost. Why don't they explain this??

Optimize Press is a theme. If you have another theme installed then you can't use Optimize Press at the same time. If you wanted to them you would need to merge a whole lot of the files from both themes together and it would probably cause you some big problems.

As I also stated, Optimize Press DOES allow you to do blog posts:

Blog Setup Overview « Optimize Press

[Kenneth Holland]

Originally Posted by WillR

Optimize Press is a theme. If you have another theme installed then you can't use Optimize Press at the same time. If you wanted to them you would need to merge a whole lot of the files from both themes together and it would probably cause you some big problems.

As I also stated, Optimize Press DOES allow you to do blog posts:

Blog Setup Overview « Optimize Press

Hi Will,

Do you have any idea how SEO optimized Optimizepress is? (sounds funny huh?)

[WillR]

Originally Posted by Kenneth Holland

Hi Will,

Do you have any idea how SEO optimized Optimizepress is? (sounds funny huh?)

I'm not sure, I haven't used it for a blog myself. But you could always use a plugin such as 'All in One SEO' or 'Platinum SEO' to help improve things.

I would just email the creator. He has always been helpful and straight up with any questions I have asked him.

[Kenneth Holland]

Thanks Will for clarifying that and sending me that link.

I'm going to email him and ask questions after I go through his FAQ.

Thanks again!

Ken

[christopher jon]

So I CAN use it with my existing theme??

No. It is a theme. You can only use one theme at a time unless there is something new I don't know about.

[kiskat]

Originally Posted by Kenneth Holland

So I CAN use it with my existing theme??

So if it won't do posts and I can't use my existing theme then this is where I'm lost.

I'm attending an Optimizepress "class" online, tonight with David Risley. Here's what I learned tonight.

To use Optimizepress and another theme at the same time, set up TWO different Wordpress installations. To use the same domain, just create a folder to install the second Wordpress. For example:

[www dot mydomain dot com] is the first Wordpress installation.
Then, create a folder. Call it "next".
So, the domain would be [www dot mydomain dot com/next/].
Install Wordpress into that folder.
On that Wordpress installation, use Optimizepress as your theme.

Kathryn Kistner in Texas

[Kenneth Holland]

Originally Posted by kiskat

I'm attending an Optimizepress "class" online, tonight with David Risley. Here's what I learned tonight.

To use Optimizepress and another theme at the same time, set up TWO different Wordpress installations. To use the same domain, just create a folder to install the second Wordpress. For example:

[www dot mydomain dot com] is the first Wordpress installation.
Then, create a folder. Call it "next".
So, the domain would be [www dot mydomain dot com/next/].
Install Wordpress into that folder.
On that Wordpress installation, use Optimizepress as your theme.

Kathryn Kistner in Texas

Hi Kathryn,

So you can do that?? 2 installations just one in a different directory?

Have you tried yourself yet?

Ken

P.S. Just moved to Texas. Where abouts are you?

[WillR]

Originally Posted by Kenneth Holland

Hi Kathryn,

So you can do that?? 2 installations just one in a different directory?

Have you tried yourself yet?

Ken

P.S. Just moved to Texas. Where abouts are you?

Ken,

You can definitely do that. You would just need to have two separate installations of Wordpress. You can't use two different themes on the SAME installation of wordpress. But you can definitely have more than one wordpress installation on a domain.

[garyk1968]

Looks a good product but to me its missing one fundamental thing. You cant split test. As you cant setup google website optimiser on WP blogs I cant do any a/b testing which makes the whole purpose of conversion irrelevant.

[WillR]

Originally Posted by garyk1968

Looks a good product but to me its missing one fundamental thing. You cant split test. As you cant setup google website optimiser on WP blogs I cant do any a/b testing which makes the whole purpose of conversion irrelevant.

Why can't you use Google Optimizer on Wordpress blogs? I think you will find it can be.

[kiskat]

Originally Posted by Kenneth Holland

Hi Kathryn,

So you can do that?? 2 installations just one in a different directory? Have you tried yourself yet?
Ken
P.S. Just moved to Texas. Where abouts are you?

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David Risley is using this on his site, so I'm seeing it in action. Haven't done it myself, yet, but that's why I got Optimizepress in the first place.

Just a few miles N of Austin. You?
Kathryn

[MarcS]

It's easy to solve using the MU features of Wordpress 3.0 and higher.

Just set up a separate blog in a folder or subdomain on your account. Use your main theme in your root and optimizepress or other landing page theme on a separate blog folder or subdomain just for the landing pages.

[warriortrades]

Originally Posted by Kenneth Holland

Hello,

From what I understand, this is my main issue with Opitimizepress...

Since it's a 'theme', I CANNOT use it in conjunction with my existing theme, am I correct in this assumption?

I know I cannot use a squeeze page on a new domain when I'm doing Adwords (yes I advertise Squeeze pages on Adwords) because I don't have all the neccessary pages (content, privacy, etc...).

So if I use OP (for example) it has to be the theme of my whole blog.

Does anyone use this theme for their blog by chance?

Ken

I ran into the same issue today. I purchased OP not realizing it was a theme. I thought it was a plugin which would integrate into my existing site. So I created a sub-domain, installed wordpress on the sub-domain, uploaded the OP theme to the new sub-domain. I plan on using some sort of re-direct so when people visit my main domain they are pointed over to the squeeze page on my sub-domain. At that point, I'm not sure if there is an option to let them come back to my main site or not. Haven't got that far yet.

[yesacpow]

To the OP, you could always have your blog on your root domain which would be posts and then you can create pages for squeeze pages. hmm that sounded weird lol

Also, if you want the squeeze page to be on the root domain, you can go to settings in your wordpress dashboard then reading and allow the squeeze page to be a static front page. so you would have www.yourdomain.com and Then you can setup your blog on a sub folder such as www.yourdomain.com/blog

[stephaniek]

Originally Posted by Kenneth Holland

Hello,
...
I know I cannot use a squeeze page on a new domain when I'm doing Adwords (yes I advertise Squeeze pages on Adwords) because I don't have all the neccessary pages (content, privacy, etc...).

Ken

Hi Ken,

What did you mean by this part? Those pages should be easy to set up whether you do OP, regular there or even static html...

If you don't need care about using OP to edit, you can have the pages formatted into a standalone static HTML page after you've designed them in a test install with OP.

Then you can make the url be anything outside of the wordpress install.

[dcrodwell]

Good morning all...

I too have a couple of Optimizer questions:

1. I have a Test Site that I had planned to use to do all the OptimizePress development work and then once it works and is stable, take down my current existing site and replace it with the new site...the one developed on the Test Site...not quite sure how to do that????

2. Anyone see a problem with:
o The Sales Page
o The Squeeze Page
o The Membership Site
all being on the same site???

These are rookie questions, but I sure need to know!

Thanks all.

David Rodwell

[Cataclysm1987]

They need to do something about this.

Someone needs to create something similar to optimizepress that runs as a plugin instead of a theme.

[UdayDileep]

I am using optimizepress theme. I don`t know how to add pagination on my pages. If anybody know please guide me.......

[Takuya Hikichi]

I use OptimizePress Theme and Thesis Theme on the same domain by placing them under two different directories.

OP for Squeeze pages, sales pages etc then Thesis for content.

[maxibrian]

Originally Posted by dcrodwell

Good morning all...

I too have a couple of Optimizer questions:

1. I have a Test Site that I had planned to use to do all the OptimizePress development work and then once it works and is stable, take down my current existing site and replace it with the new site...the one developed on the Test Site...not quite sure how to do that????

2. Anyone see a problem with:
o The Sales Page
o The Squeeze Page
o The Membership Site
all being on the same site???

These are rookie questions, but I sure need to know!

Thanks all.

David Rodwell

Well, you need to go to your hosting service panel (cPanel) then navigate to pHpMyAdmin, export your testing site and import it to the new domain / wp installation and then change the domain at the settings section at myphpadmin.
If you need help by moving OP from one site to other or just duplicating it, contact me.

Originally Posted by UdayDileep

I am using optimizepress theme. I don`t know how to add pagination on my pages. If anybody know please guide me.......

You can do it by activating the funnel part, look here for an exmaple:
seacret411 dot com/company-history/Company History
Navigation is at the upper saction there.

[Deepak Media]

Put it in a separate folder. blog.com/optimizepress/

Have your landing pages there!

[Kaiavatar]

How do I access the WP install folder with OP in it from within the Dashboard??

[WillR]

Originally Posted by Kaiavatar

How do I access the WP install folder with OP in it from within the Dashboard??

If you have installed OptimizePress there should be an option for it down near the bottom of the left hand menu bar in your Wordpress dashboard.

[Kaiavatar]

Originally Posted by WillR

If you have installed OptimizePress there should be an option for it down near the bottom of the left hand menu bar in your Wordpress dashboard.

WillR thank you for that... but if I have done the dual installation where I have WP running as my main and OP as the theme on a seperate folder install of WP as you had mentioned in response to Kenneth Holland after Kiskat mentioned it...
My question is how to access that second install... is it like the first... and re run the setup??? (So I have the domain with 2 WP installs and 1 op install on the secondary directory.) Just need different login pages then?

[WillR]

Originally Posted by Kaiavatar

WillR thank you for that... but if I have done the dual installation where I have WP running as my main and OP as the theme on a seperate folder install of WP as you had mentioned in response to Kenneth Holland after Kiskat mentioned it...
My question is how to access that second install... is it like the first... and re run the setup??? (So I have the domain with 2 WP installs and 1 op install on the secondary directory.) Just need different login pages then?

If you have two installs of Wordpress then you just treat them like two different installs of Wordpress (as though there were on different domains) since they are. You login to both of them separately and you need to install Optimize Press as a theme on both of them separately or just one of them.

[Kaiavatar]

Originally Posted by WillR

If you have two installs of Wordpress then you just treat them like two different installs of Wordpress (as though there were on different domains) since they are. You login to both of them separately and you need to install Optimize Press as a theme on both of them separately or just one of them.

Does MU need to be enabled for this to work properly... I can't get to the subdirectory where the OP is installed.

[WillR]

Originally Posted by Kaiavatar

Does MU need to be enabled for this to work properly... I can't get to the subdirectory where the OP is installed.

I've never used MU in my life.

It's really very simple. They are just two separate installs of Wordpress. I think you are trying to overcomplicate and over-think things.

1. Install Wordpress on your main website such as yourwebsite.com

You would then login to this Wordpress install at:
http://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-admin

2. Install Wordpress in a subfolder such as yourwebsite.com/blog

You would then login to this Wordpress install at:
http://www.yourwebsite.com/blog/wp-admin

Both of those installs are totally separate. You login to both of them separately and you can put different themes and plugins on each install.

It's no more complicated than that.

[Frederik Jorgensen]

Originally Posted by WillR

I've never used MU in my life.

It's really very simple. They are just two separate installs of Wordpress. I think you are trying to overcomplicate and over-think things.

1. Install Wordpress on your main website such as yourwebsite.com

You would then login to this Wordpress install at:
http://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-admin

2. Install Wordpress in a subfolder such as yourwebsite.com/blog

You would then login to this Wordpress install at:
http://www.yourwebsite.com/blog/wp-admin

Both of those installs are totally separate. You login to both of them separately and you can put different themes and plugins on each install.

It's no more complicated than that.

Thanks Will from Australia!

Just did what Will suggested and it works wonders.

Now I get to have an awesome blog and neat looking squeeze pages on 1 domain sweeeet :-)