How to make a thank you page?

[Rick Olsen]

For my aweber thank you page I want to use my site's header and outside double border. Is there a way I can do this?

My site is using wordpress, but I want just a simple html page with the above.

[TraciKnoppe]

Take the existing page.php template with your theme, remove the coding that calls in the sidebars, and place this code at the very top of the page, above any other coding:

<?php /* Template Name: New Template Name */ ?>

(*Rename the template to call it whatever you want, i.e.: Thank You Page Template) Then upload the new page template to the same folder as the theme you currently have active on your site.

When you now go to create a new page, you will see a dropdown menu to the right where you can select this page template.

[Adriana]

Great info Tracy: I needed this as well. But I have another question: how do you create this page and make it invisible on the site?

For example, I created a thank you page at my blog here: http://www.myonlinebusinessjourney.com/thank-you/, but it appears on the navigation with all my other pages. I tried to make it private, but then my subscribers got error messages.

I'd really love to learn how to resolve this problem. Thanks.

[lisahartwell]

There's a Wordpress Plugin I use with the catchy title of "Exclude Pages from navigation". When you create a page you can tick a box (down on the right hand side underneath Attributes) which will remove it from the navigation menus.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/

Lisa

[Adriana]

Thank you so much Lisa! That was so easy to do, and worked like a charm.

[TraciKnoppe]

The normal pages widget also has an exclude section.

However, if you have tabbed navigation at the top of your blog theme, you may need to insert the exclude='page_id' into the coding in the header that list the pages. Depends on your theme, some themes now include easy to customize options and also now have exclude pages from navigation areas specific to that theme.

[Rick Olsen]

Traci - I thanked you before right after you posted, but it's disappeared. Thanks again. I can't get this to work. If I go here:
http://catlovershopping.com/cat/wp-c...aks/thanks.php It says this:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in /home/xxxxx/public_html/cat/wp-content/themes/tweaks/thanks.php on line 3

If I don't go there nothing shows up at all.

[TraciKnoppe]

I assume you uploaded your custom thanks page template and created a new page called thanks.php and published it?

[Rick Olsen]

Thanks Traci. It works now. I forgot to title the page when I made it and I didn't leave the post stuff in.

Is there any way to make this page half as wide as a normal page? I added text and it runs right off the page on the right side.

[TraciKnoppe]

I'm getting a fatal error when I try to view the page:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in /home/writer/public_html/cat/wp-content/themes/tweaks/thanks.php on line 3

Do you have the header code in place for the page? Should look like this:

<?php get_header(); ?>