Posted 3 years ago #
Hi,
I'm a newbie here so please be gentle.
I want to create a site with blogging ability BUT I don't want EVERY page to be a blogging page.
In particular, I want the Home page to be a welcome/intro page w/o blogging. Then I'd set up a page for blogging.
It seems that WordPress assumes you want blogging everywhere.
Am I missing something? How can I do what I want? Is/are there theme(s) that display this approach?
Thanks,
PP
Take a look at the Front page displays setting in Administration > Settings > Reading.
Posted 3 years ago #
Aha! I see. WP is incredibly flexible.
But the options for the "front" page doesn't include "Home". I made "About" the front page so now I have "Home" and "About" both with the same content. How can I fix this?
Thanks,
PP
I don't even have a page name home. I guess you could delete it. But if you want a home page AND an about page just change whichever to suite your needs. And yes, WP is very flexible.
Posted 3 years ago #
But the options for the "front" page doesn't include "Home". I made "About" the front page so now I have "Home" and "About" both with the same content. How can I fix this?
You can create and publish any page you like and set it as the front page. If you're not seeing 'Home' make sure you've actually published it.
You should be able to change the content of each using Manage/Pages.
Then for your other 'blogging' pages, you may wish to display them by category or tags, so you may have custom category pages or use conditional tags within the loop.
Check out the Codex documentation. There's a lot of it, but it will certainly help you get a handle on how pages, posts, categories, themes operate.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
Posted 3 years ago #
There is NO home page listed in Manage/Pages!
The odd thing is in Magage/Pages I see only two pages: About and Test (my new page that I'd like to be the home page).
Yet on the site I see three pages: Home, About and Test.
Where is Home? Or how can I find it?
Thanks
PP
You'll need to provide a link to the site and/or a link to download the theme you are using. As I said, many theme authors hard-code a link to Home in the header.php so you'll want to find and delete that code.
Posted 3 years ago #
Hi Michael,
I've been trying several themes to see what's what. I have the SAME problem with all of them. I.E. There is no Home page listed in Manage/Pages. Could they all be hard coded?
I've tried WordPress Classic 1.5 by Dave Shea, FleurdeLys 3.17 by miloIIIIVII, Silver Light 0.1 by Bob, WordPress Default 1.6 by Michael Heilemann, Pop Blue by Bob and a few others.
The theme currenly selected is SilverLight (http://www.blogohblog.com/wordpress-theme-silver-light/).
My site is currenly on my home server and very crude. You can see it here: http://69.177.67.68/Wordpress/
Thanks for your help!
Posted 3 years ago #
PitterPat,
The theme isn't what controls what pages actually exist in your site. All posts and pages should always be viewable from within your Admin panel under Manage Pages or Manage Posts.
The theme simply changes the way you view the content.
What Michael said earlier was:
Many theme authors hard-code a link to Home in the header.php and if you create a Page called home you might see duplicate Home links.
Possible solutions: fix the theme or delete the Page called Home via Manage->Pages.
My guess is that the theme you're using has a hard-coded link to a 'Home' page, which you will:
This may help in creating your links:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Linking_Posts_Pages_and_Categories
Posted 3 years ago #
One more thing for clarification:
In your navigation on your theme, your link to 'Home' is currently controlled by this part in the code:
<ul class="nav">
<li><a href="http://mbhsys.us/Wordpress">Home</a></li>Specifically, it's the <a href="http://mbhsys.us/Wordpress">
So if you create a home page and you're not using Permalinks, your link may look something like:
<a href="index.php?page_id=2">Home</a>
If you are using permalinks, it could be more like:
<a href="/index.php/home">Home</a>So, here's what you might try:
<ul class="nav"> in your code, and change the link to the home page to link to your home page, rather than the root of the blog.Hope that helps.
In the fleurdelys theme from milo, this line in header.php would need to be deleted to get rid of the 'Home' link in the navigatior bar.
<li><a title="Home is where the heart is" href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>">Home</a></li>
The theme I downloaded came from:
http://3oneseven.com/27/fleur-de-lys/
Posted 3 years ago #
Seo and Michael,
Thanks so much for your generous help! I think I've got the idea now.
Posted 3 years ago #
I meant Sew not Seo ;>)
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