LeadPages HTML in Wordpress?

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I like some of the HTML landing page templates designed by LeadPages and I want to integrate some into my Wordpress sites. But they tend to be significantly different from typical Wordpress themes (e.g. full screen photo background with no menu or sidebars).

Is there a way to integrate static HTML into a Wordpress site? Anyone do anything like this before?

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EDIT: SOLUTIONS

There's at least a couple of different ways to get Wordpress to display static HTML:

1. As Patrick mentioned below, create a page template.

You create a new PHP file within your theme and make sure you add this to the file:

Code:
<?php
/*
Template Name: My Custom HTML Page
*/
?>

<INSERT YOUR HTML HERE>
The first 5 lines are important because it tells Wordpress this is a template file. So you create a new page, select 'My Custom HTML Page' as a template, and publish.

You can have multiple PHP files, as long as the Template Names are different. The downside to this method is that it doesn't parse shortcodes.

2. I modified an existing plugin to display static HTML and parse shortcodes.


Long story short, don't take no for an answer. There are ways to display static HTML on your Wordpress blog.
#html #leadpages #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Jeff Lenney
    The whole point of a landing page is just that, it's a landing page with the ONLY option being a subscription or sign up. You don't want your navigation and header etc in there

    Just use the leadpages plug-in, set up your lander or sales page etc and enjoy the conversions
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    • Profile picture of the author meepmeep
      Originally Posted by eljeffe77 View Post

      The whole point of a landing page is just that, it's a landing page with the ONLY option being a subscription or sign up. You don't want your navigation and header etc in there
      I agree with you. I'm wondering if there's a way to produce a post/page in Wordpress that doesn't display any "Worpdressy" elements like headers, menu, or sidebars and just display a pure landing page.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jeff Lenney
        Originally Posted by meepmeep View Post

        I agree with you. I'm wondering if there's a way to produce a post/page in Wordpress that doesn't display any "Worpdressy" elements like headers, menu, or sidebars and just display a pure landing page.
        Yes - just install their plug in - it does the work for you. Go through their training videos again - i think it'll help you
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        • Profile picture of the author meepmeep
          Originally Posted by eljeffe77 View Post

          Yes - just install their plug in - it does the work for you. Go through their training videos again - i think it'll help you
          I don't have a LeadPages subscription but they give away their HTML templates for free so I've been using those.
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          • Profile picture of the author Jeff Lenney
            Originally Posted by meepmeep View Post

            I don't have a LeadPages subscription but they give away their HTML templates for free so I've been using those.
            Probably not going to work then. My advice, sign up - it's worth it

            OR - you can just do a sep HTML install

            As mentioned above, www.YOURMAINWEBSITE.COM/sub-domain-add-lead-pages.html
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  • Profile picture of the author JensSteyaert
    If you're a leadpages member then you can install their plugin to use wordpress for the landing pages.

    If not then i don't believe what you want to do is possible and you'll need to upload the file to your server to get the landing page up and running correctly.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ardoris
    You can have lead page in html and then install WP in sub folder.

    Lead page
    http://site-domain-name/index.html

    Wordpress
    http://site-domain-name/blog

    Or just install lead page plugin.
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    • Profile picture of the author meepmeep
      Originally Posted by Ardoris View Post

      You can have lead page in html and then install WP in sub folder.
      Right now, my sites are static HTML. But I saw some Wordpress plugins that has some great features. So I'm trying to see whether I can bring those functionalities into my current landing pages. Unfortunately, installing the HTML and WP into different folders won't help.

      And I don't have a subscription to LeadPages.
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrick
    You want a Wordpress page as the HTML page template? There are many ways to do it.

    You can create a page template and add your HTML code there or you can simply place it in a folder and link the menu to that folder, for example, you can put it in a folder called /landing/ (the index.html should be inside landing folder) and then create a custom menu link like this (http://www.yourdomain.com/landing/) this will make your HTML page show up on that page.

    However if you want the ability to change text inside the template, you will have to go the page templates way.
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    • Profile picture of the author walt73
      hey guys!
      I created a sales page with leadpages, and put it into wordpress (plugins already in place).
      Now, I have a pop up optin box created with Aweber, which I would like to integrate in the sales page. I already have the code for the box, I just need add it into the footer of my sales page to make it work. Now here is the catch, I don't know how to edit the sales page or where to find the edit, into wordpress.

      Does anyone know how to do it?
      Thanks
      Cheers
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