The Best Way To Create a Squeeze Page In Wordpress

I don't want to change the theme of my blog, that would cause me too much problems with the rest of the content.

Thanks, mathaios. I didn't know about this simple feature.

I managed to remove everything except for the top navigation panel from the top of my page. Now it is a lot better than what I started with, but it would be even better if I could get rid of the top navigation menu completely. Does anyone know how to do this using Thesis?

Someone got xrumer for their birthday. :rolleyes:

Bad Wordpress urls can be easily fixed by going to settings-->permalinks in your admin panel. Just choose Custom Structure and type in "/%postname%/" without quotes.

Anyway, thanks for advice, I'm going to design my squeeze page independently from Wordpress.

I think it would be a matter of choosing the right template for your blog.

Hi Emils,

You've hit the key problem with doing squeeze pages on wordpress - how to get rid of the standard navigation which could be distracting to visitors.

You've got a few options:

1) As a number of people have said, just create an html page for your squeeze page and link it in to the rest of the page structure manually.
2) If you want your squeeze page to be your front page, you can either create your wordpress site in a subdirectory and have the html page as your index.html - or you can just install wordpress in the root directory and overwrite wordpress's index.html with your own html file. Wordpress doesn't seem to mind this and wil quite happily deliver all the remaining pages on your site while your html file delivers the home page. You'll have to reupload your html page whenever you upgrade wordpress though as it'll get overwritten.

I've been using this strategy on a site of mine for a while now and it works well. I use a squeeze page from Hot Video Squeeze Templates (I'm sure you can find a WSO for it somewhere) and have a Thesis site coexisting behind. To be frank, no one worries that the theme of the squeeze page doesn't exactly match the rest of the site.

3) You can use a different template file. I believe there's a WSO here for a product which essentialy uses wordpress templates to do squeeze pages. This hasn't worked well for me with Thesis as templates work differently in Thesis - I've never figured out how to add your own.

4) In Thesis you can create decent squeeze pages by selecting the no sidebars template, and then using a custom function to remove the menu bar (in my case, for aesthetic reasons, I replace it with a bar of colour to separate the header from the rest of the page).

Here's the code I use in my custom_functions.php file:

remove_action('thesis_hook_before_header', 'thesis_nav_menu');
add_action('thesis_hook_after_header', 'my_nav_menu');

/* No nav menu if squeeze page, otherwise put after header */

function my_nav_menu() { ?>

<?php if (is_page('subscribe')): ?>
<div class="bar"> </div>
<?php else: ?>
<?php thesis_nav_menu(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php }

This removes the menu bar and replaces it with a blank bar of colour from the page URL/subscribe. You can change it to your own page id or have multiple pages.

It also puts the menu below the header rather than the Thesis standard position above it.

In my custom.css file I have a class for "bar" defined which creates a coloured blank bar across the screen which looks exactly like the menu bar, but with no menu:

.custom .bar {padding-right: 0em; padding-left: 0em; background: #005a87; height: 30px;}

If you fiddle around you can achieve pretty much the same effect.

Your optin form code then goes in the page itself, of course.

Ian

Yeah, I love the squeezetheme products, especially the squeezeplugin. Now you don't have to change your entire theme.

This is helpful thread as I do have similar problem.
I'm using FlexSqueeze, still I can't get rid of the top navigation buttons.