How to Make a Social Follow Prompt Appear After Visitors Subscribe with Divi’s Software Marketing Layout Pack

Last Updated on September 16, 2022 by 8 Comments

How to Make a Social Follow Prompt Appear After Visitors Subscribe with Divi’s Software Marketing Layout Pack
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Every week, we provide you with a new and free Divi layout pack which you can use for your next project. Along with every layout pack, we also share a use case that’ll help you take your website to the next level.

This week, as part of our ongoing Divi design initiative, we’re going to show you how to make social follow icons show up right after someone has requested early access on the coming soon page of the software marketing layout pack. This is a great way to promote your product or service even before you’ve put it out there.

Sneak Peek

Before requesting early access on the coming soon page, the following layout is used:

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Without changing anything visually about the coming soon page, the following (redirect) page will open once someone requests early access through the email optin form:

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The process, in its total, looks like this:

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Part 1: Make Your Coming Soon Page Functional

Step 1: Open Coming Soon Page with Visual Builder

The first thing you will need to do is create a page using the coming soon page from the software marketing layout pack. Once you do that, enable the Visual Builder on that page.

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Step 2: Add Service Provider to the Email Optin Module

One of the modules that is part of this layout is the Email Optin Module. To continue using this module, you’ll have to add an email account to it using your service provider of choice.

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Step 3: Change ‘Countdown to’ of Countdown Timer

Next, scroll down your page and add the countdown date that matches your launching date to have a fully accurate coming soon page.

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Part 2: Create Redirect Page

Step 1: Create a New Page, Enable Divi Builder & Switch Over to Visual Builder

After making these small modifications to the coming soon page, you’ll have to create another page which will be used as the page your visitors get redirected to after subscribing to the Email Optin Module of your coming soon page. Use whatever page title you want for this page, enable the Divi Builder and switch over to Visual Builder right away.

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Step 2: Use Coming Soon Layout

We don’t necessarily want people to know that they’re being redirected to another page. That’s why, for most of the page, we’re going to reuse the coming soon layout of the software marketing layout pack. If you’re uploading the coming soon pack from the premade layouts in your library, make sure you change the countdown timer once again.

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Step 3: Remove Current Row in Hero Section

We’re going to replace the modules within the hero section with a Social Follow Module and two matching Text Modules. To accomplish that, we’re going to need another column structure and for the sake of saving time; remove the current row in the hero section altogether.

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Step 4: Add One-Column Row Instead

Instead, we’re going to add a row with one column to our hero section.

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Step 5: Clone Hero Section Text Modules of Landing Page

You could start creating your Text Modules from scratch or you could use some Text Modules that are already present in the software marketing layout pack to match with the rest of your website, which sounds like a better idea. The hero section on the landing page, for instance, has two Text Modules that only need small changes to work on our redirect page. Go ahead and add both Text Modules to your library individually.software marketing

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Step 6: Add Text Modules to One-Column Row

Right after adding the Text Modules to your library, go back to your redirect page and add both Text Modules to the one-column row you’ve created.

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Step 7: Change Content & Alignment of Both Text Modules

Since we’re using a row with one column, it’s recommended to use center alignment. Both Text Modules need a center Text Orientation in the Text subcategory and a center Module Alignment in the Sizing subcategory.

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Step 8: Add Social Follow Module Between Text Modules

After you’re finished with the Text Modules, you can add a Social Media Follow Module right in between both Text Modules.

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Step 9: Add Social Media Channels

Add as many social media channels as you want to your Social Media Follow Module and don’t forget to include the URLs to your own social media channels for each one.

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Step 10: Change Alignment of Social Follow Module

No need to modify the design settings of each one of the social media channels individually, you can apply changes to all of them at once by going to the Design tab of your Social Media Follow Module. The first thing you will need to do there is use a center Item Alignment for your module.

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Step 11: Apply Additional Rounded Corners

To make each one of the social icons appear in a circle, you can simply add ’20px’ to each one of the corners within the Border subcategory.software marketing

Step 12: Add Box Shadow

Last but not least, a bit of Box Shadow can help you create depth for your social follow icons. The box shadow we’ve used in our example is the first one in the list (by default). However, feel free to play around with the settings and the shadow color to match the design with your own taste and expectations.

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Part 3: Add Redirect Page to Email Optin Module

Step 1: Copy Your Redirect Page URL

Now that you’ve created and finished the redirect page, you can save your page and exit the Visual Builder. Once you do, go ahead and copy the URL of your redirect page and go back to your coming soon page.

Step 2: Add it to Your Email Optin Module

The last thing that’s left to do is adding the new redirect page you’ve created in the previous part of this blog post to the Success Action subcategory of your Email Optin Module. Don’t forget to choose ‘Redirect to a custom URL’ as the action as well.

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Final Thoughts

In this use case blog post, we’ve shown you how to make social follow icons show up right after someone has requested early access on the coming soon page of the software marketing layout pack. This use case is part of our ongoing Divi initiative where our design team shares a new layout pack with you each and every week. If you have any questions; make sure you leave a comment in the comment section below!

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8 Comments

  1. Why does the social media follow module constantly corrupt in the back end builder on various sites adding paragraph tags like this Social Media Name in the builder interface itself?

    I’ve put in a ticket but am getting nowhere with assistance.

    Thanks.

  2. Hey Donjete,

    Thanks for putting together this post on how to make the social follow prompts appear.

    It is a great read. I particularly think it’s a great way to collect more social follows.

    Keep up these insightful posts.

    Cheers!

  3. Thanks for the post. Great work!

  4. How do we leverage this for site under development that is 90% built. I currently have site in maintenance mode but I like the ability to subscribe and redirect with this functionality. Any advice?

    • I’m wondering the same thing.

      I would think that this would have to be set as the Home Page with no way to any other pages on the site.

      Then set the home page manually when the timer runs out.

      It would be nice if the author or one of the staff would reply to the questions ask here.

      • Hi Zakia and Michael.
        You can achieve that doing the following:
        1. Follow this tutorial a create the two pages: coming soon and redirect
        2. Go to your Dashboard => Settings => Reading => Your homepage displays (here choose the option: A static page and on the Homepage drop-down menu choose the coming soon page). Click Save Changes.
        At this point when someone enters in your site will go directly to your coming soon page and after subscribe will be redirected to your redirect page. All this without seeing the rest of your page. But… they’ll still be able to see the main menu on the header and from there click on the pages you already build. A quick fix for this is:
        3. Go to your Dashboard => Divi => Theme Options => Custom CSS (at the bottom) and put this code:

        /* start code to disable the header */
        #main-header { display:none; }
        #page-container {
        padding-top:0px !important;
        margin-top:-1px !important
        }
        /* end code to disable the header */

        Click Save Changes.

        When your site is ready to go live
        4. Go to your Dashboard => Settings => Reading => Your homepage displays (here choose the option: A static page and on the Homepage drop-down menu choose the home page). Click Save Changes.
        3. Go to your Dashboard => Divi => Theme Options => Custom CSS (at the bottom) and delete this code:

        /* start code to disable the header */
        #main-header { display:none; }
        #page-container {
        padding-top:0px !important;
        margin-top:-1px !important
        }
        /* end code to disable the header */

        Click Save Changes.

        That’s it! Happy blogging! 😉

  5. I do the same thing…even for my contact page. Great way to utilize the redirect feature. You can even do some upsells/downsells…

  6. Thanks Donjetë. This was very cool!

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