creating a landing page
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Hi all, I am trying to creating a landing page for my blog that has a different design to the rest of my blog. I literally want one image (a logo) on a single page that then links to the rest of the blog.
I am struggling setup the landing page as the default page, and I can’t find a good way to apply different designs to individual pages.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice.
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There isn’t an easy way to do what you want to do with WordPress.com.
Is there a particular reason why you want to use a landing page? I would say that in general, landing pages are unpopular these days. They require your viewers to make an extra click to get to your content. And it is well proven that any extra clicks required cause you to lose some percent of viewers. It is typically better to get your strongest content in front of your site’s viewers as quickly as possible.
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thanks for the answer rootjosh. The good news I am not totally stupid then, in that it isn’t easy :)
I am in the process of turning my blog more towards a business focused website for an independent consultancy. I ideally wanted to setup a holding page I can direct people to that has a logo and quick mission statement. Hence the wish for a landing page.
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Do you mean to have that appear while you are in the process of building your new business focused website?
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Yes, exactly. Just wanted something quick and dirty. maybe you could recommend a template of a static page?
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I am also looking to start a consultancy business that just needs 2-3 pages and contact details. Can you advise on the best theme please?
Thanks
Roy
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@tumblingdicemedia
There are no such templates. By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
A static page (select below)
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@royhind2013
Do not hijack threads and post off-topic questions into them as doing that creates confusion. If you have a theme issue then click this link and create a thread in the Themes Forum please https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/themes#postform -
@timethief, that’s great advice thank you very much. I’ll give that a whirl this evening.
Really appreciate the helpful replies on this forum from members and staff.
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Another option might be to set up another WordPress.com site with a just very basic static page and transfer your domain to it. Then, when you are done setting up your original WordPress.com site the way you want it, transfer the domain back to it.
Might not be the best plan for SEO/Google, but if you are making wholesale changes to your site, that might not really be a concern.
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staff-ozmodiar
I purchases a URL and applied to my tumblingdice blog, is there a way to apply it to another blog?
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Can you rephrase that? I am not sure that I understand what you are asking. I’m seeing two blogs that start with “tumblingdice”. So I’m a little confused.
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I purchased tumblingdicemedia.com. Right now it’s applied to tumblingdicemedia.wordpress.com.
But as I wanted to create a static landing page and posts page I had to start a new blog, so I created: tumblingdicemarketing.wordpress.com
So now I’d like to shift the url I purchased under tumblingdicemarketing so i can apply it as the main URL destination for the new blog.
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Excellent. Understood completely.
I have moved tumblingdicemedia.com and it now points to tumblingdicemarketing.wordpress.com.
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Wow, no idea you had that sort of power :)
Awesome, thanks so much for your help! Really, it is much appreciated that you took the time to sort it out.
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Engineering Happiness takes great power sometimes.
Happy to help, that’s what we’re here for.
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