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1. svaldesm
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Hey there, I've searched through the plugins page but haven't found what I'm looking for. Do you know any plugin that enables you to enter a text/html code, like a flash animation, on your homepage before showing the posts?

   Thanks

2. svaldesm
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Any solution in here? Somebody told me to try the "sticky" post thing, but it's not what I'm looking for, because I want a permanent flash before the post, whichs width it's bigger than the posts one, so I can't make it that way.

   Nobody knows a good plugin for this?

3. Gangleri
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   And you already tried to make a "page" with that flash object and set that as index under "settings"->"reading"?

4. svaldesm
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Yes, but the thing's that I also want some posts to appear under the flash, so it ain't useful.

5. Gangleri
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Well, it IS possible to show posts on a page. There are numerous threads about that on the forums. It requires a little coding (that I don't know by heart), but that's a possibility.
   Simpler, perhaps, is to make a post with the flash object and 'sticky' that. Just have a look under the "visibility" option for each individual post (there are more options there than "public" or "private").

6. SimonJ
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Hum...

   What theme do you use?

   Do you have a home.php in your theme directory?

   If you have one, just edit this file itself to include the flash before the loop.

   If you don't have one, you can create it by copying what you have in "index.php" (you can in fact rename index.php to home.php but be sure to backup index.php cause you'll still need it in your theme directory)...

   S.

7. svaldesm
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   That could be one possibility. And does Wordpress automatically recognise the home.php and use it on the first page?

8. SimonJ
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Yes.

   If there is no home.php, wordpress will use index.php... But if there is an home.php, wordpress will use this file instead. Same thing for category.php, single.php, archive.php, etc.

   I strongly suggest you read the documentation :
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

   S.

9. svaldesm
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Guess I'll take a look. Thanks a lot for your help!

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