I created a 2 column video squeeze page using the WP Squeeze Page Generator premium WordPress plugin. The creator of the software liked my creation so much that it is currently featured on the plugin’s home page. 
I assisted in user testing when the plugin was recently upgraded and added to the official WordPress plugin library that you can automatically download from in the comfort of your own WordPress dashboard. Initially you had to upload the files manually to your server.
I also provided a user testimonial based on my experience with the plugin.
I highly recommend you trial the WP Squeeze Page Generator Plugin. It has a 60 day refund period if you are not 100% satisfied.
How to Create a Squeeze Page in Thesis Theme and any other WordPress Theme
You can choose to have a single or two-column design squeeze / landing/ sales page for images, videos and web copy where you want it. It is just like writing a post / page but the formatting is already done for you.
My squeeze page is just one example of what you can create easily with this amazing tool. There are more examples at the WP Squeeze Page Generator site.
The WP Squeeze Page Generator (WP SPG) is for any theme. Once you buy the plugin you activate using an API key provided to you – the same set up that Scribe SEO and other premium plugins use to provide easy access but member only use.
I will say that while Ron has created a great plugin that gives you amazing control of squeeze pages without making any changes to your theme (or having to change themes) he is not the world’s greatest marketer.
When you visit the site make sure you go to the best part – the videos - and see the plugin in action. The videos really show you how easy it is to use. You are shown how to use the plugin from start to finish to create a squeeze page. Very few plugins provide video instructions as well as an electronic manual. WP SPG gives you both.
Visit the plugin’s blog to see it used to create video tutorial pages and read useful articles including:
- Understanding the Benefits of Building an Optin List
- 7 Must Read Squeeze Page Tips
- Top 10 Mistakes Most Internet Marketers Make Regarding Squeeze Pages
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I think the web developers should try the squeeze page for once atleast, the customers will surely like the new trend. Nice sharing by the way!
Thesis is a powerful Wordpress theme and no doubt that it can help you create some neat Squeeze pages. I am with Elegant themes and they are pretty good too..
Hey Scott,
Thanks for the kind words!
I’m glad you found my product useful. I love what you did with it, one of the better squeeze pages I’ve seen so far.
If you liked this version, you will love the next version coming out in a month or so!
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I’m creating a squeeze page without the use of anything extra other than Thesis CSS styles. You can see my work in progress squeeze page here:
http://www.biblemoneymatters.com/ebook
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Nice design Peter. I invite you to guest post and write a tutorial, sharing your code with Thesis Theme HQ readers. George Serradinho’s guest post Tutorial: Customizing Thesis – Standard to Unique in 6 Easy Steps is a very popular post.
Linking to your squeeze page from your guest post will give you a lot of traffic if you use it for your example. Drop me a line using the contact form if you are interested :-)
Actually, the tutorial isn’t mine, I found it on howtomakemyblog dot com:
http://www.howtomakemyblog.com/thesis/how-to-create-a-sales-letter-landing-page-with-wordpress-thesis-theme/
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Great work Peter!
Just some advice. To the grey box with ‘Full Table Of Contents’
add this CSS and it’ll look better (after adding class to the table):
.table_class {
border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
padding: 5px;
}
.table_class h2 {
text-shadow: 1px 1px #fff;
-moz-text-shadow: 1px 1px #fff;
-webkit-text-shadow: 1px 1px #fff;
}
What it will do is give the gray box (table) a decent padding and rounded corners also a ‘letterpress’ effect to the headings. Try it, would love to see it.
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Wow! Thanks for the awesome tutorial Somone!
I am going to use it as reference when I create a squeeze page for my upcoming e-course on the Meditation Rocks which is already running on thesis. Do check it out, I’d love to know what you think.
Btw I am in middle of redesigning my Official Site . What do you think?
Love the new full width footer btw.
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Awesome header and great angle to a sometimes sedate topic. I’ll take a look back in the near future and see how it’s all going.
Wow!!
Thank you so much!
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Great article Somone… just what I was looking for.
One thing. Your link to your Youtube video isn’t working. Would be great to watch
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I fixed it now. I just upgraded to the new Firefox version 3.6 and had to update Adobe Flash player. I changed the squeeze page into an html page a few weeks ago to deal with excessive cpu usage issues with my hosting provider and forgot to update the link to the new page. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. The video is the same as the one in the sidebar, top right with cool Aussie music.
Hi,
Thank you for a useful post….
It happens that I’m looking to do pretty much the same thing you’ve done..
I just went to the Squeeze Page Generator only to find out the price
went up to $49:) Very nice – I’m late again.
I’m thinking very intesively about purchasing, but bought a few pieces of software lately and don’t want to go overboard.
All the best
JJ
Best
Thank you for a useful post….
It happens that I’m looking to do pretty much the same thing you’ve done..
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You have a beautiful website design! Is it easy to plug the squeeze page into your thesis theme?
Yes. The plugin is great for any theme, including Thesis.
Helpful artile. i’m just thinking of going with Thesis… but have also read Socrates is just as good and Flexsqueeze is even better. Any thoughts on those views?
Cheers
Nic
I considered Flexsqueeze for a site set up (different site to this one) and have assessed it already.
It is great for quick site set up however you need to pay an unknown amount of money waiting for access (monthly drip-feed) or upfront larger payment to get child themes/skins for different looks. Not sure what their support forum is like. If they are wanting money for skins/child themes, they are probably unlikely to offer free tips in the forum to show you how to do it for free.
The header creator looks great but overall aren’t very unique or web 2.0. I actually thought they were a bit too ’80′s feeling’. I felt crowded with the offered color schemes. But that’s just my personal view. If you have a WordPress site already, try it on for size and get a refund in the initial period when you can.
You will still need to get your own logo if you want that professional look.
The squeeze pages look great - very pushy with arrows and bright colours – if you want lots of sales pages, landing pages and squeeze pages, then this may be perfect for you.
However, if you want more of an informational site with some squeeze pages, you can get a squeeze page plugin that does the trick as easily and lets you use your existing theme. You don’t have to choose a theme based on whether it has good squeeze pages.
The Socrates theme is new so I didn’t know about that one. I visited the site and watched the video.
There aren’t many examples yet. So the community is very young. It is difficult to find legitimate/honest reviews when a limited number of people are using a theme. You need people to try and break it – like I do with new themes – and then see if the theme developer will fix it, help them with their problems – for free and quickly and publicly.
I would be wary about using a new theme unless the theme creator has already proved themselves to be an expert WordPress theme creator. The person behind a new theme may be great at Marketing but a theme is all about the backend. Whether the coding is robust, has great in-built SEO, is flexible, has limited bugs, etc.
I’ve had bad experiences with a new theme (I was a foundation user of Squeeze Theme). I purchased their theme because they were offering great squeeze page functionality. I ended up using Thesis Theme and purchasing a Squeeze Page plugin that would work well with my existing theme.
I will recommend two posts in particular: 2 Different Ways to Create a Squeeze Page in Thesis AND New Squeeze Theme for WordPress Not User Friendly.
Why I recommend Thesis Theme over FlexSqueeze and Socrates Themes
Thesis is a mature, supported, expert-built SEO-supporting WordPress theme framework that allows you to have any look you want. If you want to add advertising blocks, units, links – you can add them using ‘hooks’ in more than 30 different places.
You are assured of a huge, established community full of tutorials, advice and examples to help you get started and take your site whereever you want it to go.
If you want to use lots of advertisements you can – however, if you want to provide information to add value to your readers’ lives and build an email list of subscribers to soft-sell over time (a long time) then Thesis lets you use it as a design and a very efficient information delivery system.
Your theme is not just about looks – but it does have to be clean, easy to read and give that professional look from the time you activate it.
If you took the ad spots out of Socrates and Flex you may not like what is left. Will the reader?
Thesis is a very reasonable price for a starting theme that gives you everything – including free upgrades and there are as many as their are WordPress major releases, major internet trends and soon there will be even greater ease of skin changes. You can already automatically change your header and background in a few minutes.
I recommend you have a site populated with posts (if you haven’t already) and try the theme that you like for the initial trial period and get a refund pronto if it doesn’t suit you. If you need help getting started with Thesis, feel free to drop me an email using my contact form.
I think this will encourage more people to incorporate videos in their squeeze pages and sales pages.
Aside from videos showing product benefits and happy customers; the videos can address the top concerns people have that is stopping them from buying the product.
Sales pages with product comparisons and with tutorial videos are also more persuasive because a lot of us have experience of buying products over the web that we end up not using because it’s not what we exactly need or we are not good in operating them.
You provide some best practice guidelines. I agree with the about being comprehensive. It’s not worth the time and expense process refunds when the product is not what customers expected, I would have thought.
That plugin doesn’t sound half bad. Luckily for me my theme has a squeeze page facility built into it. I’ve played around with it some and I reckon it’s pretty cool, but now with the latest update it’s even better.
Sire,
If you don’t mind me asking, what theme do you have that has the squeeze built in.
Does anybody know of training videos for Thesis. I’ve put mine up in fact I’ve used it on a number of my domains but am just learning how to make it look the way I want.
Thanks
Nat
PS sorry to hear bout all the flooding over there.
There is the OptimizePress theme that another reader mentioned. The link to the site is: http://optimizepress.com/ A review by somebody who is NOT an affiliate is at: http://www.darrenmonroe.com/wordpress/optimizepress-non-affiliate-review/
I haven’t used it myself but it does give you an option other than adding squeeze pages to a theme. The downside is that all these kinds of sites look kind of alike. It depends how unique you want your site to be I guess.
It’s called FlexSqueexe Nat and I’ve a sample or two on my blog.
The floods are pretty bad, although living in Adelaide I’m not affected by it. Still, I feel sorry for all those who are.
Sire,
Thanks for getting back to me.
Sorry for not responding sooner but her in New England I’ve just been battling snow for the last 2 months so just getting back to this.
Cheers
Nat
No worries, I understand how sometimes circumstances can keep you busy. I hope you’ve got it all under control now.
Great ideas. How far I concerned this may encourage more people to incorporate videos in their squeeze pages and sales pages.
This is an interesting product. I also create squeeze pages. But I am new to these and would like to learn a lot. As of the moment I use Optimise Press.
That is a nice design. Simple and easy to use. I will have to try it for myself and see how it wokr swith different templates.