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1. jbn10161
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I would like to have a static welcome page with a paragraph or three, and then a "Continue" button that moves the visitor into the rest of the site. The welcome page would be essentially a portal. I thought I could just modify index.php, call it home.php, then link the "continue" button to index.php. But it seems like WP will not allow index.php to load if there is a home.php. So... how can I create a welcome page?

2. skippy
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Two immediate choices:
   * pass a query string from your home.php's "Continue" link to the index.php. WordPress will use home.php is no query is provided. So, simply provide a query of some sort.

   * use a plugin like Static Front Page to use one of your WordPress Pages as your portal page.

3. jbn10161
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Thanks skippy. Some questions (to you and everyone else):

   1. I'm clueless in PHP, so, assuming I can figure out how to create a query string, what would I query?

   2. If I used Static Front Page, I would still have to provide a link from that page to the normal start of the site, wouldn't I? Would there then be no problem in a regular anchor link to index.php?

   3. Are you aware of any problems with Static Front Page?

   Thanks much.

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