Landing Page options

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    adyp
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    My standard home page has a lot of information and options on it and I am considering creating a simpler ‘Landing Page’. I have been looking at various plugins and wondering if I actually need one or if I can set up what I would like without resorting to a plugin – so basically asking for a little advice.

    I would like the home/landing page to be a simple browser-wide page with no sidebars – just a logo/picture with some large font intro text, smaller intro text a ‘Proceed to Main Site’ button, maybe a ‘Simple Search Box and a login box – the sort of thing that Landing Page plugins appear to offer.

    I would like to know if the GD settings (e.g., GD Homepage permalink) would allow me to do this: a) with a landing page plugin; or b) by creating a page within GD without using a plugin?

    Also, if I wanted to have an option “Don’t show me this page again”, for those people who are happy to go straight to the main homepage in future, would this need to be done with a plugin (using cookies?) rather than by creating a page in GD?

    Any advice greatly appreciated.

    I am running GD with Buddypress, BBpress.

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    adyp
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    Paolo
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    Hi,

    just create a page and set it as the front page in Settings >> Reading (main wordpress menu).

    Then you can create the content for that page with a page builder or writing html in it directly.

    That would be considered a custom job. If you want help with this, I can move this post in the Jobs section of the forum.

    Thanks

    #125936

    adyp
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    Thanks Paolo,

    I’ll have a look at it and see how I go – I might try doing something with a pop-up instead.

    #127550

    adyp
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    In case any other users find this thread with a similar need, I have found the free ITRO Popup Plugin to hold promise for providing a ‘Welcome’ site-overview pop-up.

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