How to Create a Landing Page on WordPress: A Detailed Guide

Landing pages are great for converting your visitors into potential customers and leads; if you set them up right, they can bring in more visitors to your website. Having a landing page with dynamic content also makes your website a valuable asset for you. Visitors will quickly get attracted if you organize the content of your landing page in an eye-catching and attention-grabbing way.

Creating a landing page for your website can be challenging if you have limited time and resources. To overcome this challenge, using a Content Management System (CMS) like WordPress comes in handy. It’s because WordPress offers some specialized plugins to make the process of creating a landing page on a WordPress-based website more effortless than ever.

In this article, we will show you an easy way to create a landing page with WordPress. So, without further ado, Let’s get into the details discussion.

Step by Step Guide on Creating a Landing Page on WordPress

To show you an easy way of creating a landing page on WordPress, we’ll be demonstrating a stepwise guide on creating a landing page for a WordPress-based website using a dedicated plugin named ‘SeedProd‘. 

Step 1: Install and activate ‘SeedProd’ 

To create a landing page for WordPress, Firstly, you need to install ‘SeedProd’ on your website. To do that, go to Plugins ➤ Add New. You will land on the WordPress plugin repository page. Next, write SeedProd in the Search Plugins box.

Once you have installed the plugin, click on Activate to make the plugin functional on your website.

After activating the plugin, you are ready to create your first landing page on WordPress. To do this, go to your Dashboard Admin Menu Bar and click on SeedProd ➤Landing pages. Then, you will land on the SeedProd’s different types of pages option. You can create different kinds of pages to serve various purposes from here. 

For this tutorial, you need to create the landing page. That’s why click on Create New Landing Page button.

Step 2: Choose a free Landing page template

Now, you have landed on SeedProd’s free landing page templates page. Here, you will see SeedProd’s library of landing page templates. The templates are filtered into different categories on the top of the screen. We will create a landing page for this tutorial using Coming Soon templates.

Now, you can see different templates on Coming Soon. Almost all the templates here are premium, or you need to subscribe to SeedProd’s email to get free templates to WordPress landing page. But there is only one template available here named Rocket Coming Soon Page which is free. Now, hover over it and click on the Tick sign. 

After choosing the template, a popup will appear where you’ll need to give your landing page a Page Name and Page URL. If necessary, you can change them later. Next, click the Save and Start Editing the Page button to edit your template in the drag and drop editor.

Step 3:  Add content to the landing page

SeedProd’s visual builder comes with two different sections. There are different types of Blocks and Sections available on the left side to design your page, and on the right hand, you can see the Live Preview of your WordPress landing page. 

If you want to add content, drag a block from the left panel and drop it onto the live preview Section, and you’ll be able to see a real-time change. You will get a wide range of landing page blocks in the Block section.

Besides, in the Advanced section, you will get two blocks named Giveaway and Contact Form for free, and by using these free blocks, you will be able to show both RafflePress Giveaways and WPForms contact forms entirely free of cost on your landing page.

Now, you can add your unique content just by clicking any block on your live preview. After clicking any content on the live preview, you will see a settings Panel on the left side, and from here, you can replace the default content with your content.

In the following part, you can see the default Heading part named ‘We are Coming Soon’, and ultimately, you can replace this with your content.  

Moreover, you can edit the content directly on preview with SeedProd’s Inline Text Edit feature.

You can effortlessly replace default images by clicking on any image in the live preview section and clicking the Trash icon in the Settings panel on the left side. 

Next, you can upload an image from your computer or WordPress media library by clicking on Use Your Own Image button.

You can add as much content as possible to make your landing page on WordPress look more impressive than before. After adding content, click on the Save button in the top right corner of your screen.

Step 4: Customize the landing page styles

You have added content to your landing page. You can customize the landing page to make the styling consistent with your brand. Click on the Gear Icon in the bottom-left corner to view the Global Settings. Using this setting: you can customize your landing page:

• Fonts
• Colors
• Background
• Custom CSS

First, let’s take a look at the Fonts Settings. You can perform different customization on Header Font and Body Text Font. You can choose different themes from Font Themes though this facility is only available for SeedProd pro users. 

Next, you can change the header, text, buttons, links, and background color in the Colors setting. The Color Palettes option is available in the SeedProd pro version.

From the Background area, it’s effortless to change the background color, style, image, and content position.

With Custom CSS, you can customize the CSS code of your landing page using a CSS Editor. If necessary, you can expand the CSS Editor by clicking on the Expand Editor button. 

Once you are happy with the design of your landing page, click on the Green Save Button to save the recent changes.

Step 5:  Check if your landing page is responsive

You can effortlessly check if your landing page is mobile responsive. To do this, click on the Mobile Preview Icon at the bottom of your landing page. 

After clicking the Mobile Phone Icon, you will see the mobile phone preview of your landing page.

Step 6: Configure the landing page settings

Once you confirm that your landing page for WordPress works perfectly and it’s mobile phone responsive, you will need to configure a few settings options.

To do this, click on the Page Settings tab at the top of your landing page screen, and you will land on different page settings, including: General, SEO, Analytics, and Scripts. Once you are done with editing the page settings, don’t forget to click on the Save button. 

Step 7: Publish the landing page 

So, you have finished all the customizations for your WordPress landing page. Now, it’s ready to be published on your website. For this, click on the Down Arrow beside the green Save button at the top right corner of your screen and hit on Publish. 

Next, a popup containing the message Your page has been published will appear. You can see your newly created landing page live by clicking the See Live Page button.

Your newly created landing page on ‘Save the Nature’ has been published.

Rounding Off

By following the right way to create a landing page for your website, you will be able to earn users’ satisfaction, and ultimately it will positively impact your website’s conversion rate. With that in mind, you need to find out a way through which you will be able to create a landing page for your website painstakingly.

We are hopeful that, from this article, you have an in-depth idea of how to create a WordPress landing page straightforwardly using a plugin. If you have any queries regarding this article, feel free to raise your voice in the comments section.

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