The VORTEX Assign Mobile Page Function

[Russell H.]

Within the Vortex Control Panel in the "General" tab at the bottom of the page you'll see check box that says "Enable mobile landing page" and under that there is an entry field where you can enter a URL.

The purpose of this function is to allow you to nominate a specific page on your site that will be seen on the first visit by mobile devices.

If you don't activate this function then the mobile site visitor will simply see the default home page for your site. Now given that VORTEX is fully responsive that may be all you wish to do, - show the site's default home page.

However, if you wanted to set up a specific page using the button generator which could then display a list of several pages you wanted mobile visitors to see then you could use the " Enable mobile landing page" function to do that. For example, you could set up a page and have several buttons with titles such as "Latest Offers", "Tap To Call", "Send SMS", "Coupons", "Site Map" or whatever you chose.
How the function works: What happens is that when a mobile device calls the site URL then the special mobile page is shown to the mobile viewer upon first landing. Then once the user moves away from that page and later clicks on the "Home" link they'll see the default home page. So to be clear; the nominated mobile page is only see ONCE by the mobile site visitor. If you wanted that page to be accessible later then you'd need also to link it in the normal menu or via a banner or link.

Other ways that you could use this "Enable mobile landing page" could be
1) to create a graphic landing page with an optin form (you could get quite creative with that using the WP page editor to create a nice page with optin that will automatically be reduced down to ideal mobile size via the responsive styling of the VORTEX theme).
2) Set up a short video for your mobile users to see with some offer or just a simple site welcome.
The potential of the "Enable mobile landing page" is really only restricted by your imagination.

If you have questions or anything to offer on this topic please be encouraged to join the discussion where we can explore further ideas about it.