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Hi guys,

this is just a quick post to tell you about a new free plugin I’ve just had an e-mail about.  It’s called the Authority Squeeze Generator plugin and it is to promote a new product by Alex Goad and Bryan McConnahea.

I haven’t really had a look at the product that is being sold, however the plugin looks great.

A lot of these Guru guys are offering free  software as an appetizer for their package, and a lot of it is pretty good (if you wanted to show how good your product was, would you give away something crap as a loss leader?)

Anyway, here is the bumph off their page, and you will have to opt-in to get the free squeeze page generator.

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When I’ve spent time and effort altering the layout, look and feel of a flexibility 2 (or flexsqueeze) theme the last thing I want is the little downward pointing arrows in the title bar of my widget.

1/ If you are using Adsense in a text box then the arrow could be seen as a beach of Googles TOS.

2/ If you change the titles of the widget then the arrows overlay themselves onto the first letter – Ugly!

So to get rid of them find this file:-

/public_html/yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/flexibility2 (or flexsqueeze)/images/sidebar-h2-bg.png

Put it into a graphics programme and crop off the arrow. You don’t need to resize the file.

Now upload the file and that should fix it.

Easy.

(Thanks to Annerjen in New Zealand for that tip.)

Flexibility 2 is the free version of Flexsqueeze theme from Ryan Hellyer . Now granted, it isn’t quite as feature rich as it’s paid for cousin, but with a few tweaks and changes you can make it do almost amything you want.

To change from the standard 2 plus 1 theme that comes out of the box, to make a good squeeze page here is what I do;

I open up the editor box to 30 lines and then and add TinyMCE advanced plugin.

Then I make the following changes to the php files.

To remove comments from pages.
Remove this line. <?php comments_template(); ?> From Pages.php and main.php

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To Remove sidebars add the line:
#sidebar {display:none;} at the very bottom of style.php Then go into flexibility 2 settings and reduce the right and left sidebars to 0

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To remove the navigation bar add the line:
#nav {display:none;} at the bottom of style.php

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If you want to remove all titles, you will need to edit the index.php, single.php, archive.php and page.php files. Just look for the H1 or H2 tags in each page, and remove everything from the opening tag (<h1>) to the closing tag (</h1>).

The pages are displayed by the page.php file. The posts are displayed by the single.php file. So if you want to remove just the PAGE titles, edit the page.php file. Remove <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

You should be good to go from there.