Alternative to Optimize Press

I am looking around profits theme and I like it better as a sales page, the best thing about optimizepress is its membership area features, which is funny since its known for squeeze pages and sales pages.

I would 2nd Profits Theme, but it too is starting to get a little long in the tooth....

I've been happy using Twenty Eleven, and customizing a child theme based on it myself. If you are not comfortable digging in to a theme, you can find someone here or on fiverr to get it exactly as you like it instead of adapting to the theme developer's look and feel.

From what I understand, the OptimizePress folks ARE making OP responsive with the next build. When that will be, I don't know.

Aside from the crappy looking blog and the lack of responsive (for now), OptimizePress is great. I wouldn't say it's 'stuck' in 2007; it's been awesome since then. Will be interesting to see what they have in store with the next release.

I would still stick with Optimize Press because although it still pisses me off sometimes, it still creates beautiful sites. (sales pages, squeeze pages, blogs)

Optimize press all the way..

It's simple to use and as lots of templates and features..

Concerning the conversion side of things.. As long as you have good copy, the template you choose you work like a charm...

Cheers,

Gary

I think Profits Theme is great for its plug n play layout but I haven't seen anything relative to mobile use.

Fiver is definitely worth investigating, obviously there are both good and bad representatives

BUT

It is only a fiver.. so you can afford to try a few out before you find a good quality contact that you can use to rinse and repeat!

I use and love Profits Theme. I have also been looking at Warrior Press. Have not used it yet, it looks real good. I know there is a discount WSO for warriors on this forum (Not an Affiliate Link): http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...arent-you.html

I have Profits Theme and Sales Press Pro BUT also take a look at the wordpress plugin PT Instant . Short for Profits Theme Instant by Welly Mulia that also make Profits Theme.

I am a beta tester for PT Instant and it is so much easier to use than PT and SPP but doesn't do the membership side of things. Does everything the other two does even a countdown clock and built in social media sharing!
Also being a plugin, you can install it on any of your themes, you are not locked in. The plugin is also better priced than the themes as well. Love it!
Scotty

PS It also means that if your theme is responsive that you install the plugin on then... well your a smart man

Never used but you can also have a look at premise ( getpremise.com )

Hi, interesting question. I have been thinking this for a while too.

I have just starting using Paper Template now for all my sites that need these sort of pages. Very cheap and intergrates nicely.

I wrote a blog post on it should you wish to check it out.

Why you should be using Paper Template for your squeeze pages

I would still stick to OP since for it has been so flexible to many of m needs.

But I am open to new alternative themes.

So with wordpress updating 3 times a year, anything you buy is likely to come out with a "new" product for new $$ when they need to keep up with it.

HI All,

I've just got hold of PT Instant - not sure if I'm missing something, but I can't see how PT instant protects premium "download" pages?

i.e If you do an OTO and don't want premium content openly visible - how do you protect it with PT Instant - or perhaps I'm expecting too much from the plugin..

For me it's OptimizePress

For those interested in OP2

James Dyson — OptimizePress 2.0

I can't say if it's legit but page source seems to indicate so. But that could be faked

Hi,

I've been looking at a solution for this recently and in the end all I have done is take my existing blogs theme, and made a full width page template removing the sidebar and navigation bar etc.

Then I can just drop the WSO design into that and voila! Cheap and cheerful, matches my current blog/branding and no bloated plugins/graphics ^^

There are a couple good landing page themes on theme forest and graphicriver.net

I own both Optimize Press and Profits Theme and to be honest I like Optimize Press the best. From creating video sales pages, text based sales pages, landing pages and membership areas I find Optimize Press to be much faster at creating what I need to do. I also own WishList Member that integrates with both OP and PT...

Over all it was much easier to use Optimize Press and adding my own CSS was easy to do site wide as well as individual pages with OP...

The creators of InstaBuilder have included a ton of different backgrounds, images, buttons, and other graphics for you to use right out of the box.

I would have to say the beast of them all is sales press pro... can do so much once you get comfortable with it.

Hi,

I have worked with optimizepress, profitstheme and a few others and I agree with you, they all look outdated.

I am now using leadpages.net and I am loving it. It looks extremely professional and it is responsive. If you want better looking templates you might need to hire a designer.

Regards
Mario

I have Optimizepress and have been pretty happy with it, although my coder says the coding is pretty amateurish. he recommended getpremise to me, it's built on the Genesis platfom it doesn't need third party plugins to secure content and is what I will be using from now on.

I'd heartily recommend Clickbump. Clean, fast responsive theme, so many cool features. There are sales and squeeze templates you can get for it but I tend to use Paper Template for these pages.

According to a post from James Dyson on Facebook on March 2nd:

Beauitful morning in the new LA OptimizePress HQ. This will be home for the next month while we prepare to launch our brand new Version 2 platform...more info coming soon.

Doesn't seem so soon...wonder how its going.

Hi everyone!

I know this thread maybe a little old but I though I would contribute anyway in the hope of helping someone.

What an absolute conundrum we all seem to be in over what to choose - OP 2 or otherwise. I find this issue extremely confusing.

I've used OP 1 and I've used Profitstheme. Personally I always preferred PT. Although it's pages aren't quite as sleek as OP it has some quirks (not unlike OP 1 truth be known) it makes protected membership very easy to achieve and it has always been several light years ahead of OP 1 in that respect. For example: Automatically adding new members to your list and so forth with minimal setting up to make this happen. And I believe it still is in comparison to OP 2 which pretty much uses s2 Member if I'm not wrong.

There are a couple of problems though toward ongoing use of Profits Theme that we face.

Problem#1: It is not responsive. Nor will it ever be apparently. I asked PT support about their plans to make it responsive and they replied they have none. How sad. They told me they are focusing their efforts on PT Instant moving forwards. But of course as someone already said PT Instant doesn't handle memberships. Arrgh!

Problem#2: I mentioned to some PT staff that given the absolute mess with the launch of OP 2.0 it would be a golden opportunity for them to snag an absolute boatload of new customers with a decent PT update. However they don't appear to have all their ducks in a row because they told me this won't be happening.

If I were them I would have had a super hot new version ie PT 2 developed, waiting in the sidelines and either released it just before OP or (much better!) just after OP was launched. They would most certainly have laughed all the way to the bank if they had.

I really like Profits Theme and also their support which have always been quick to answer my questions but I am dismayed at their attitude of not wanting to release a brand new version of it. I hope they change their mind about this.

After a LOT of research I can't see myself using PT much longer unless they come to their senses and update it ie at least make it responsive, give it a facelift and remove the very few small glitches it has re formatting footer tect etc. Which would not be hard at all.

Personally I am still searching for that elusive all in one solution. Whether OP 2.0 will be it looking forward I still don't know. I might review buying OP 2.0 in a few months after they iron out some more of the bugs. But for now I remain perplexed.

Hi,
Have you tried Ultimate Page Maker? It's a word press plug in that makes beautiful squeeze, sales pages etc.

It's easy to learn. I'm not very techie oriented and if I can do it, anyone can.

Personally, I love it
Geri Richmond