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1. nds
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   home.php doesn't appear to be invoked when using "Front page displays: A static page" feature -- home.php is ignored, and the page is displayed using index.php. If I change the front page setting to "Your latest posts", home.php is invoked, but that's not the content I need on the home page.

   Is there another good way to use a separate template for a static fron page?

2. nds
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Answering myself:

   First of all, there seems to be some controversy over whether a static front page should actually call itself the home page:

   http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3682

   Leaving that aside, the best way to use a unique template for the home page appears to be to create a separate template for that page (ignoring the fact that it's the home page) as per:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_your_own_Page_Templates

3. groovyKimo
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi

   I made a new page template which I use for most of the pages. One of them called 'Wellcome' - if I choose this one as Front-/Homepage, it works fine.

   Maybe it's better to call the homepage not home.php, since this name is a part of the internal pagehierarchy iirc and eventually confuses the theme...

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