Note: Landing Pages are separate stand-alone pages from your theme’s design. They do not have your site header and footer. If you are using SeedProd’s Theme Builder and want to create a page to match your theme, see this article.

Please make sure that you have installed SeedProd before continuing below.

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SeedProd Landing Pages

First, login to your WordPress dashboard and browse to “Landing Pages” under the SeedProd menu in the sidebar.

Choose a Page Type

Next, choose which type of page you would like to create.

SeedProd comes with four special landing pages and modes and for you to use.

1. Coming Soon Page: Select this option if your website has not yet launched. A coming soon page will be shown to visitors while logged in visitors see the regular website.
2. Maintenance Page: Select this option if your website is being updated or needs to be hidden for a time period. A maintenance page will be shown to visitors while logged in visitors see the regular website.
3. Login Page: Select this option if you would like to create a completely customized login page to replace the default WordPress login page.
4. Custom 404 Page: Select this option to create custom 404 pages when a visitor accidentally comes across a missing page on your website. This allows you to add additional functionality such as creating a magnet lead to collect emails.

Alternatively, you have the choice of building a landing page from scratch or with our pre-made templates. Landing Pages can be Opt-in, Sales, Webinar, Lead, Thank you, Squeeze Page, or any type of page the has a specific goal or purpose.

Landing pages have their own URL like: http://example.com/my-landing-page/

To create a new landing page, simply click on the button “Create New Landing Page“.

Choose a New Page Template

After selecting to create a new page, SeedProd will ask you to select a New Page Template. You can select the first option which is to create a “Blank Template” where you will start from scratch. All other templates are pre-made and will be imported into the SeedProd page builder to give you a head start if chosen.

After clicking on a template, enter a page name. SeedProd will show you a preview of the page URL that will be created. You can modify this later if needed. Next, click on the button “Save and Start Editing the Page”.

Edit Your Page

After importing your template, you will be presented with the SeedProd page builder. On the left you will see our blocks that you can drag and drop into the page on the right side.

If you would like to learn more about how to use the SeedProd page builder, please read more SeedProd documentation or watch the video below.

The Global Settings feature allow making changes globally to Landing Pages without having to update each element at a time. On this panel, you can set the global Fonts, Colors and Background. You can also add your own custom CSS which will be also applied to your page.

Finding the Global Settings

1. On the Page Builder bottom right side, find the gear icon that represents Global Settings
2. Click on this gear icon to open the Global Settings panel to set global Fonts, Color, and Background as well as add Custom CSS.
   
3. That’s it! Be sure to always save your changes after setting your global options.

• General: Page Title & URL, Page Status (Draft or Published), SeedProd Link, Isolation Mode, Facebook App ID
• SEO: SEO Title, Description, Favicon, Social Media Thumbnail, Enable No Index
• Analytics
• Access Control: Bypass URL, Exclude/Include URLs, Access By IP, Access By Role (for Coming Soon and Maintenance pages only)
• Scripts: Header, Body, and Footer Scripts (for adding your Facebook Pixel, Google Tag Manager, and other scripts)
• Custom Domain

Accessing your Page Setting Panel

To access the Page Settings panel, follow the steps below.

1. While editing your landing page in SeedProd, click on Page Settings at the top of the page builder.
2. That’s it! You can now use the features available in Page Settings.

Note: The Coming Soon page is accessible for search engines to index. You can choose to prevent this by adjusting settings in WordPress under Settings > General or by including specific directives in your robots.txt file.

Setting Up Your Coming Soon Page

Follow these steps to setup and activate your Coming Soon page.

1. In the SeedProd > Landing Pages section, click the Set up a Coming Soon Page button.
2. Choose a template for your Coming Soon page.
3. Begin designing your Coming Soon page and remember to save it once you’re happy with your changes.
4. Finally, activate your Coming Soon page by toggling on the Coming Soon Mode switch.
5. Congratulations! Your personalized Coming Soon page now serves as your website’s temporary landing page.

Create Beautiful Maintenance Mode Pages. The Maintenance Mode Page will notify search engines that the site is unavailable. It will return a 503 header status as recommended by Google and will tell search engines to return in a day.

1. To create a Coming Soon page, click the Set up a Maintenance Mode Page button.
2. Choose a template.
   
3. Start designing your Maintenance Mode page and make sure to save and publish it.
4. Lastly, activate your Maintenance Mode page.
   

Including/Excluding pages from Maintenance Mode

If you want to include or exclude certain pages from displaying the Maintenance Mode page, you can set this up in  Page Settings > Access Controls > Include/Exclude URLs.

Create custom 404 pages. Replace your default theme’s 404 page with a custom high converting 404 page and turn you lost traffic into leads.

Creating Your Custom 404 Page

1. Click the Set up a 404 Page button.
   
2. Choose a template to start designing your 404 page with. When you’ve finished, be sure to Save it.
   
3. Lastly, activate your 404 page.
   
4. That’s it! Going to any unavailable or invalid page link on your site should bring you to your custom 404 page.

1. To create a custom login page, click the Set up a Login Page button.
   
2. Choose a template.
3. Start designing your login page and make sure to save it.
   
4. To have the WordPress default login page redirect to your custom page activate the Redirect the Default Login Page setting:
   

   Note: If you use the Redirect the Default Login Page option under Page Settings of the login page, it should redirect all calls to the default login page which is located at: https://example.com/wp-login.php however it does not prevent it from being accessed as that default login page will still be used for password resets, login errors, logouts, and registration if that is enabled.

5. Lastly, activate your login page.
   

1. After creating a SeedProd page, click on the Save button’s dropdown arrow.
   
2. Click the Save a Template option to save this page as a template.
3. You can see all your saved templates and select the desired template when setting up a new SeedProd landing page, a new coming soon page, maintenance page, or login page.
   

   QUICK TIP: You may choose a new template at any time while editing your existing coming soon page, maintenance page, or login page. This option is found within the page’s Page Settings as shown in the screenshot below.

4. That’s it! You can now reuse any of your saved page templates on any SeedProd page.

The Bypass URL feature allows you to create a custom URL you can share with others to bypass your active Coming Soon or Maintenance Mode pages. This option can be found in the Page Settings > Access Controls panel while editing the Coming Soon and Maintenance pages only.

By default, this uses a generic user with no privileges to access the site. This method is used because heavily cached hosts or caching plugins do not cache content for logged in users. In other words, when someone uses the bypass URL, they are logged in as that generic user.

Note: This may not work in some use cases. However, you may try turning on the Bypass Cookie option to use a cookie-based bypass instead on sites that aren’t cached.

Setting Up Your Bypass URL

Follow these steps to use the Access Control features and configure a Bypass URL:

1. While editing your coming soon or maintenance page, go to the Page Settings > Access Control panel
2. In the Bypass URL box, enter a secret phrase that will be added to your website URL
3. You will then see a bypass URL below, which you can then give to anyone to bypass the coming soon page.

Password Protection

You may also add a password form using the [seed_bypass_form] shortcode on your coming soon or maintenance page. The phrase used in the Bypass URL section is also the bypass password in this form.

You may also edit the password form’s placeholder message (using the msg shortcode attribute), edit the button text (using the button-txt attribute), and add a return/redirect URL (using the return attribute) if needed. Here’s a sample shortcode below with all attributes and a screenshot of this password protection form.

[seed_bypass_form msg="Enter passcode" button-txt="Login" return="https://yourwebsite.com/welcome"]

That’s it! Make sure to always save your work.

Note: Domain Mapping is only available on the Elite subscription. For more information, check out our Pricing page.

Note: This feature is not supported on WordPress Multisite installations.

Important: To set up domain mapping your web hosting provider MUST support adding multiple domains to your single WordPress site in your web hosting panel. You can check with your hosting provider to confirm and add this additional domain.

Follow these steps to map your domain to a SeedProd landing page:

1. In your domain registrar’s management panel (used to buy the domain), add an “A” type DNS record pointing to the IP web server hosting your website. You may ask for help from your domain registrar’s support team on adding this record. To find your web server’s IP address, you can also reach out to your web hosting provider’s team to provide this.
2. In your web hosting panel, add this domain as an additional domain for your website. You may ask your hosting provider to help add this domain and confirm it is pointing to your web server.
3. Create or open a landing page in the SeedProd builder
4. Go to Page Settings > Domain Mapping panel
5. In the Domain Name box, enter the domain (“mydomain.com”) and the optional path (“mydomain.com/thank-you”)
   
6. If you want to force HTTPS on this page, turn on the Force HTTP toggle option. Please note that this only works if you already have a security certificate installed for this domain.
7. Turn on the Custom Domain toggle option
8. That’s it! You can now go to the domain to see this landing page.