Genesis Framework — Creating a Landing Page

This will just be a short tutorial on making a landing page using the Genesis Framework from Studiopress.

First, you’ll need to create a new file within your child theme’s folder. In my case, I’m using the Platinum child theme, so I’ve created the file in wp-content/themes/platinum. Call this new file something along the lines of “landing.php”, so that you’ll know exactly what it’s purpose is.

Paste the following within the file:

<?php
/**
Template Name: Landing
*/

Here we’re opening the PHP tag and setting the template name. This will be used later when selecting the template when creating a new page.
Feel free to rename to whatever you like, Landing Page, Marketing Page, etc.

Next we’ll be removing the navigation and the breadcrumbs.

// Remove navigation, breadcrumbs, footer
remove_action('genesis_after_header', 'genesis_do_nav');
remove_action('genesis_after_header', 'genesis_do_subnav');
remove_action('genesis_before_loop', 'genesis_do_breadcrumbs');
remove_action('genesis_footer', 'genesis_footer_markup_open', 5);
remove_action('genesis_footer', 'genesis_do_footer');
remove_action('genesis_footer', 'genesis_footer_markup_close', 15);
remove_action('genesis_before_footer', 'platinum_include_footer_widgets');

We’re using Hooks to remove parts of the page markup. Starting with the navigation, then the breadcrumbs, and then removing the footer. Depending on the theme you’re using, you may need to remove other pieces.

Finally, for the page to render the page’s content properly, we’ll call in the standard Genesis page template and close the php tag.

// Use the Genesis page.php template
require_once(PARENT_DIR . '/page.php');
?>

That’s it, you’re now got a landing page template, which you can see an example of here. If you’ve got any questions feel free to ask in the comments section below.