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Is This Possible In Wordpress?

by JustaWizard
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Hi

I'd like to have a sales letter page on my Wordpress site, but with no sidebar or other distractions from the sales letter.

And I want that sales letter only visible if someone clicks on a link (or etc.) - that is, not a page or post per se.

I could just create an HTML page I suppose and post that, but it wouldn't have the exact same look as my theme page, so I was wondering if this is possible to do in Wordpress

Thanks!
David
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Diamond
    Originally Posted by JustaWizard View Post

    I'd like to have a sales letter page on my Wordpress site, but with no sidebar or other distractions from the sales letter.
    Yes, but it depends on how the theme you're using is designed. Some themes come with one-column templates, some don't. Whenever you create a post or page, you can choose to apply any of the templates that are part of the theme. (There's a dropdown pick list on the edit page.)

    If your theme doesn't already have a one-column template included, you would have to create one. Generally speaking, this shouldn't be hard to do. But in practice it depends. It's not always easy to remove a sidebar from an intricate CSS design without breaking everything else.

    Originally Posted by JustaWizard View Post

    And I want that sales letter only visible if someone clicks on a link (or etc.) - that is, not a page or post per se.
    I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean that you want a visitor to your site to see a simple intro page of some kind as the front page? And then they see the sales letter only after they click something on the front page?

    If that's what you mean, then yes, there are several ways this could be accomplished. If not, please explain.

    Hope this helps.

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  • Profile picture of the author JustaWizard
    Hey Steve - thanks!

    Part 1, got it - that really helps!

    Part 2: sorry for the confusion, I was trying to say that I want that sales letter page/post to not be on a menu or listed anywhere, I just want people to see it only when they click on the links I'll put in other pages/posts... I suppose all I have to do is mark the page private, now that I think of it, eh?

    Thanks again!
    David
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Diamond
      Originally Posted by JustaWizard View Post

      Hey Steve - thanks!

      Part 1, got it - that really helps!

      Part 2: sorry for the confusion, I was trying to say that I want that sales letter page/post to not be on a menu or listed anywhere, I just want people to see it only when they click on the links I'll put in other pages/posts... I suppose all I have to do is mark the page private, now that I think of it, eh?

      Thanks again!
      David
      You're welcome!

      I don't think that's how the private setting works in WP. According to the WP Codex:

      Visibility - This determines how your post appears to the world. Public posts will be visible by all website visitors once published. Password Protected posts are published to all, but visitors must know the password to view the post content. Private posts are visible only to you (and to other editors or admins within your site)
      Again, I'm afraid that the answer is dependent on your theme. Some have settings that let you exclude specific pages or posts from the menus. Some don't.

      If you have a recent version of WP and a fully widget-enabled theme, you can put widgets in the sidebar(s), which will override the default sidebar contents. The Pages widget lets you enter a list of page ID numbers to be excluded from the menu produced by that widget.

      But if your theme also lists pages automatically - as a top navigation menu, for example - you'll have to get into the code and modify it to achieve the same exclusion.

      HTH.

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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Schulz
    Making the page private will force a login request to view the page. What you'll need to do is edit either your header.php or sidebar.php file to include an "exclude" page ID for the sales page in the wp_list_pages(); function call.

    There are also plugins available that will let you remove Pages from the menu.
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  • Profile picture of the author danielmcclure
    In your case I would design a custom page template with no sidebars. If you really wanted to protect the integrity of your original theme and were not 100% what you were doing under the hood I would give everything on your sales page a custom class in CSS.

    Further to this I would use the 'Page Link Manager'plugin that is available on the WP site where you can manually select the pages that appear within your menu. As a plus you can also use this plugin for pages like a privacy policy etc where you won't necessarily want them displayed in the top navigation.
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