Need theme with landing page that is only a clickable logo

I don’t think that you’d be able to find a theme as basic as that. Landing pages like that haven’t really been used since the early days of the web. Your best bet is probably to find a simple theme and edit the PHP, but other than that there’s not many options.

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by ultrablogger.

That’s what I am finding. I don’t want to edit PHP but I will try to make a static home page with a single block (logo) that can serve as a landing page… it’s old school but that’s what my client wants…

It’s not the theme’s responsibility to define what is on a page, although the theme can provide a page template with not much on it (no header or footer or sidebar).
It is also very easy to make a child theme and copy a page template and trim it down to contain very little.

Even though your client wants it, you should talk them out of it since it will hurt their SEO.

Not only will it impact SEO, but it’s a poor user experience. Users go to sites to get information, not look at a company’s logo. If you can deliver the information users are looking for on the initial page along with a clear action item, your client’s conversion rate will improve. Useless landing pages are going to put off many of today’s users, especially the growing cadre of mobile only users.

Find some nice, clean home pages where you think you can build something along the same lines and present them to your client as good, modern, engaging pages. Get them away from an old concept that was flawed from the onset way back when.

Your job as a site developer should be more than just giving the client what they want, they often need informed advice about what’s best for their business, whether they realize it or not.

I tried so hard to get the client to change his mind but he asked me to copy this site – https://www.miluent.com

He told me he does not require the public to visit or for his site to be searched – it will be for invited visitors only.

All you can do is advise. Some people are beyond help. I’m sorry you have the need to work with someone who cannot accept sound professional advice. I think that’s a Wix site, it’s certainly not WP. To replicate the style of non-WP sites, especially if they are relatively simple, I would start with a basic starter theme like one from undercores.me and develop all the additional CSS needed to achieve the same look. Usually easier than trying to undo inapplicable CSS of a fully developed theme.

Like Joy mentioned, you’ll need to add a custom template named front-page.php which has no header or footer. Even without header and footer, it still should do_action() for “wp_header” and “wp_footer” hooks. Alternately, keep it outside of WP and make a index.html page that links to the actual WP page. The server configuration would need to serve index.html before index.php. This can be established in .htaccess if necessary.