Change the index from the blog to another file

  • kevintracy

    (@kevintracy)


    15 years, 10 months ago

    Hey there,
    Someone asked me to build a complete website for them using WordPress as the foundation since it’s so easy to use. The catch is that they don’t want the blog to be the first page us (the index), instead they want a wordpress created page “Home” to serve that purpose.

    Anyway, I thought I would try leaving the WordPress Address and Blog address fields under Settings… bad move I guess because everything just 404’d… including the admin area.

    So as I’m backing up the themes and other uploaded files (the re-install won’t be too hard), I was wondering if there was a plugin I could use to redirect people who go to domain.com to domain.com/home and then have the blog part of WordPress as a secondary page?

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  • VelvetBlues.com

    (@velvetbluescom)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    Why don’t you just use a standard install and then create a page that you want to be the blog page.

    Next under your blog settings, you’d just designate a static page as the home page and set that secondary page as the default blog page.

    Thread Starter kevintracy

    (@kevintracy)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    Well, the idea is for the guy to be able to manage the entire thing with wordpress, otherwise I would have created a custom index.php file in the root directory and then installed wordpress in a subdirectory.

    I suppose I could do exactly that and just make the root directory index file redirect to domain.com/wordpress/home… but I don’t think he’d be too thrilled with his site working like that, which is why I was hoping for a plugin.

    Thanks for your speedy reply though!

    whooami

    (@whooami)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    Well, the idea is for the guy to be able to manage the entire thing with wordpress,

    and thats exactly what the previous suggestion accomplishes. The recommendation was to use WP just the way that sort of thing is intended to be handled.

    whooami

    (@whooami)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    while youre at it — the blog in your profile:

    <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.2" /> <!-- leave this for stats -->

    is exploitable.. with no more ability than being able to copy and paste being necessary.

    Thread Starter kevintracy

    (@kevintracy)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    Opps. I thought you meant to create a custom static page in a text editior, not a WordPress Static page and change the option under Settings/Reading (obviously didn’t see that there… it would have saved me a lot of time).

    By all means, let me know how to fix that. I had someone screw with my blog a few months ago and never figured out how they did it.

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