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1. maelgwn
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Ok I have a static frontpage, using WP 2.1 and then I have the blog page set to a page called 'News'

   When i open 'News' it displays incorrectly, using the page.php template instead of the index.php template. When i open any category/post they display fine and as expected.

   Any ideas how to fix this?

2. JoyceD
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Edit the page and select the index template in the box that says "Page Template".

3. maelgwn
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   tried that, it doesnt work

   Also, before i had a 404.php page, it would load a non existant page as the blog, using the correct template. Weird eh?

4. maelgwn
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   bump

5. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   You'll probably want to glance over the Pages documentation to wrap your head around this (oh, and Template_Hierarchy would be great reading too)

   Short answer: Copy index.php to news.php, edit it to make it a Page Template file (see Pages for how).
   Modify your "News" page to use this new template file.

6. maelgwn
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I actually solved it by changing the filename of one of my templates from home.php to frontpage.php. That is really weird and looks to be a bug to me. (This means i was actually wrong and it wasn't using the page template).

   PS the problem with your solution is that categories would load using a different template than the news page

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