Non-WordPress Static Frontpage

  • keydin

    (@keydin)


    16 years, 5 months ago

    I am trying to make a page I created outside of WordPress be my WordPress front page. I don’t want to create the page in WordPress because it seriously messes up my layout. I put the front page I want in the root and I changed the file to home.php which works great, but it messes with my blog location (list of postings). I would like to have a link in my navigaton menu to link to a blog page.

    I have looked at many plugins and code, and i can’t seem to find a way to make this work.

    Go to http://steveeller.com/wordpress to see what I am talking about.

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    Actually, that’s absolutely doable within WP using the new frontpage vs. posts page feature; admin > Options > Reading.

    All you need is a custom Page Template for that frontpage.

    Thread Starter keydin

    (@keydin)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    can you give me a little more info. on how to create the custom page template?

    thx

    Thread Starter keydin

    (@keydin)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    and how to apply it to a page.

    Thread Starter keydin

    (@keydin)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    I just found it by inserting this into the page i created:

    <?php
    /*
    Template Name: about
    */
    ?>

    Then creating a new page with this template.

    Then changing the options in the options.

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