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1. Wpnoob
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I'm sure this is probably an extremely dumb question, and I'm not sure if I can get it across very well, but I'll give it a shot...

   On a fresh default installation of WP, the main page consists of the header, the menu links on the right, and the main text area on the left.

   What I want to do is have that main text area on the left be a "static" kind of page, rather than a page that constantly updates whenever a new blog article is added.

   Is this possible? Am I making sense LOL?
   Thank you,
   WPNoob

2. klifix2
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   wHAT DO YOU WANT ON THAT STATIC PAGE?

3. Wpnoob
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Well basically I want to use word press as more of a web site rather than a blog. I like the idea of having a blog section, but I want the main page to like the other "pages" of the site rather than "posts". That way I can change the content of the main page at any time, but when I add a blog post it does not get added to the main page of the site nor change the main page in any way.

   Let's say I logged into admin on my WP, and I created a new page called "About". That page becomes a link in my "Pages" links menu on the sidebar. Well, I would like to add a page that is called "Home", just like I did with "About", but have "Home" be the actual default page when someone arrives at my WP site.

   Sorry if I'm not making sense or being clear enough...

4. Evita
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   That´s easy.
   Copy your index.php and save it as home.php. On this new home.php delete all between
   '<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">' and '</div>'.
   Your home.php should now looks like:
   
'<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>'


   Now, you can write any text you want between
   
'<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
YOUR TEXT
</div>'


   Upload via FTP in your themes-folder and the new home.php is the first site of your blog.

5. klifix2
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I've done such like it to on my website http://www.klifix.nl/ not really with static content, but with recent posts. It's easy indeed!

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