I need a landing page, like some sort of sales page that is static. The ideal set up would be that someone lands on the domain name, they get this page to sign up to join the blog, then get passed on a page, using the Static Front Page plugin. And from there go on to the posts.
I know that I could do this by moving the blog to another directory, like http://www.example.com/members/ but I really want the blog to be in the root.
I tried to use an index.html, but then you could never see the blog.
Any ideas?
Have you searched the codex plugins section http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins for a static page plugin?
MacPoker
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Posted 6 years ago #
I use the static front page for my new blog. It does exactly what you're looking for for the front page, but linking to blog posts is a bit aquard. I don't think there's a way to make the former blog front page a different page on the site. You'll have to link to the blog via categories or archives I believe.
I am using the static front page plugin for my current home page. I want to keep that home page and some how put another one in front of it.
You could set up another blog which your visitors view first (and forward to the former blog). This might involve moving files around on your server.
I was kind of hoping not to move my wordpress around. I know I could do what I want by placing wordpress in a folder and having an index in the root. I was just kind of hoping that with all wordpress knowlage out there someone could tell me how or tell me it can't be done.
You could always create links between pages. You could have one page serve as the main page, and then a simple link to another. Next, you could link on to your blog.
Hmm... So this is what would be nice to do for my site. I make an index.html, which has the info to join my blog. they join and sign in and it sends them to index.php which is a redirect to index2.php which has the loop on it. but the thing is is that none of the links on page or any of the permalinks work, they just go to index2.php. is there away to change that?
Well, I have given up and just put the whole blog in a subdirectory.
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