LaunchPad, The WordPress Domain Parking Theme

simple yet effective it’s amazing how some theme’s just click, i know you can’t class this as a ‘theme’ but it does ‘exactly what it say’s on the tin’ Thanks!

it’s amazing how the ‘timing’ of a sentence can make you chuckle, like your last one made me no no boredom here swapped selling software in London for diving in Egypt five years ago and have never looked back:)

ps why don’t theme builder’s build into their theme’s simple option’s like the custom rss address and email that you have would make it easier for us non techie’s instead of digging into code we then break many times before we get it right!!

a clever theme!

the funny thing when I (obviously scanning and not reading the details) checked the demo page, my initial thought was “what? So the demo section is not yet done, I guess I’ll check back later…”. Foolishly not knowing that that’s what exactly the theme’s purpose.

Respect

Awesome. Putting it to good use.

Great tool. many thanks. I do have one question/ addition, though. Is there a way to further customize the email subscription screens for Feedburner? Now when you subscribe to my feed using Launchpad, I get the ugly blue/ standard message (and following confirmations from feed burner. Can I possibly change the text/ colors/ message of these? and how? it would be a great improvement to this great tool.

Thanks again and keep them coming

Thanks Ian, I already checked it out, and it works OK…. though not as slick as LaunchPad (sigh!)

Lovely idea, lovely theme! Thanks!

Thank you for the nice Theme! Very good to get started.

scratch my last comment, i finally found out what i was doing wrong, i was giving it the wrong feedburner address in my settings, i feel so stupid thanks for your help especially Ian thanks for a quick reply

*lol* .. scratch mine too then

I thought you might like to see how I’ve used your theme. I’ve recently moved my blog to a new home and I’ve used your theme to handle the re-direct.

http://blog.yourwish.co.nz/

After a little customisation, it works perfectly!

Thanks

Errr, derrrrrrrrrrr, how are we sposed to download it ?

Thanks for the great theme! Just what I need while I wait to relaunch my site!

Here’s a good alternative if you don’t want to use WP:
http://LaunchSoon.com

You can also check out some cool designs from the gallery:
http://launchsoon.com/gallery.php

Cool template found….
i will definitely try this latter on…

thanks for sharing

Great theme. However, Feedburner seems to have an issue with validation. (my host is in germany). Anybody else have that issue? Cant generate the feed with out validation.
“It looks like this is a web page, not a feed. I looked for a feed associated with this page, but couldn’t find one. Please enter the address of your feed to validate.”
Thanks

Seems like a nice idea leading to not so boring pages with eventual benefits for the users on both ends.

Thanks so much for this! My newest website bookwormsunite isn’t ready for viewers but I didn’t like the domain parking that my registrar had so I used LaunchPad and now I have a couple of subscribers who are waiting to see what I have in store!

Awesome theme – comes in handy, big time. It’s the first thing I put up when I’m working on a client’s site. (And then I use ‘Theme Test Drive’ to work on their custom theme behind the scenes…)

A heads up for anyone who does the same – if Theme Test Drive is enabled, you no longer see the Theme Options screen where you enter the Feedburner info… so do that first, and then enable the Test Drive. Hopefully that’ll save you the frantic searching I went through!

Thanks again, Ian – really useful contribution you’ve created here.

If you send me the few lines of text, I’ll give you the translations for a German version if you are interested, just email me.

Ian thanks for the fantastic parking theme. This is to be my first blog ever and your theme gives me a little more breathing room to obsess on making my content perfect before actually launching. And if you knew what a tech retard I am you would be amazed that I loaded up your theme all by myself and activated Feedburner right afterwards—via your instructions!

Thank you again!
Best,
Derrick:0

Ian,
This is an awesome theme, great work my friend. I changed the design up a bit and added a twitter feed to the page. Check it out here http://radiumlabs.com
This will work great while I complete my new site.

For some reason the theme does not utilize the scroll bars in Firefox, but works fine in IE7? have you seen this??

This is so great! I really appreciate the how-to in addition to the theme, as I’m new to Wordpress and managing my own feed. While I’m excited to get my blog up and running, at least I can stop waiting to give out the address! Many thanks.

Has Feedburner changed since this theme was created? I can’t seem to locate the “account id” referred to, nor can i find any reference to a service called “feedmail”

Great theme. Though I cannot seem to find the settings to add my feedburner info. Looked everywhere in the wp backend. I do have the them activated too. Ideas Anyone?

Just wanted to say this is an awesome idea and wonderful template. Good job. Keep up the good work!

If you’re like me, you like registering domains. It’s exciting. But what’s not exciting is watching your hosting company or domain registrar turn your name into an ad-farm while you’re getting ready to launch your next Word Press blog. If you didn’t know it, that’s called domain parking; a way for hosts and domain registrars to capitalize on all the underdeveloped domains out there. That’s why I came up with Launch Pad, the Word Press Domain Parking Theme. To explain: if this theme had a motto it might be, “I’m not your billboard.”
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Very nice, works well, easy to set up. Thanks a lot!

What a timely discovery for me. I’ve schedule a luanch of a new blog in January. I’ve just set up LaunchPad as my theme and have activated the RRS feed and Email Subscriptions from Feedburner. I’m quickly up and running. THAKKS TO YOUR EXTRAORDINARY LAUNCHPAD.

While at your site, I’ve poked around. I’m also extremely intrigued by the Acarnas Theme. I’ll be considering a purchase as I start to develop my content. Curiously, I’m looking for a theme that is elegant, while also also some commerciality. Acarnas may be the ticket.

I’ve been hunting all over for a decent parking solution and this is exactly what I’ve been looking for. I’ve got a ton of staged domains that are probably making my registrar a small fortune. Thanks for putting this together.

Nice Theme

It would be nice if we could change the colour of that bar. And the text, but its great idea that is implemented well. Good Shot. As we say in South Africa.

Version 1.1 doesn’t work with the latest designs of Feedburner since it moved over to Google. I’ve updated the in index.php as follows to make it work. I thought it might help other people:

<!– This is the original code, defunct as of FeedBurner’s transfer to Google
<form action=”http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverify” method=”post” target=”popupwindow” onsubmit=”window.open(‘http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=’, ‘popupwindow’, ’scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520′);return true”>
Enter your email address:
<input type=”hidden” value=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~e?ffid=” name=”url”/>
<input type=”hidden” value=”" name=”title”/>

–>

<form action=”http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify” method=”post” target=”popupwindow” onsubmit=”window.open(‘http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=’, ‘popupwindow’, ’scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520′);return true”>
  Enter your email address:
<input type=”hidden” value=”" name=”uri”/>

<input type=”hidden” value=”" name=”title”/>

Hi Ian,
Great theme you have put together here, one thing that I would notice, is that email subscriptions don’t work with new Feedburner Feeds since Google is trying to get them to work with Google Accounts.

The Feed id is much longer than the 7 digits you have allowed for.

Can we expect to see an updated theme, or am I free to go ahead and update it to work with the relaunched Feedburner?

Having difficulties with the email setup. I did it all (and have done it a ton of times before for other accounts), but never tied it together with this theme. It’s just not working for me.

http://nonprofitcamp.org
http://feeds.feedburner.com/NonProfitCamp

Any ideas?