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1. GlennCoco
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   OK, I've seen quite a few questions about similar things, but I don't know how any of them are going to work for me, and I am VERY confused right now.

   I have a friend who currently has a static HTML non-WP page that she likes, installed at /index.php of her domain name.

   She wants a WP blog with a Picasa plugin for photos. She wants the blog to be at /news/, so I was just thinking about installing WP in /news/ but then that would make her photo page at /news/photos/, and she REALLY wants the photo page to be at /photos/.

   Is there ANY way to do this? The static page has to be totally non-WP I guess.

2. Andrew Ozz
   WordPress Dev
   Posted 4 years ago #

   The easiest way to do that is to make a WP page template using only get_header() and maybe get_footer() (so you can have consistent look on all pages), then paste the html/code from the index page in it. Then set WordPress as usual, make an empty WP page that uses the template and select it as static page for "Home".

   Custom page templates are very very flexible. You can paste a plain html page there without using WP functions or php at all, or you can use as many as you like from the hundreds of WP functions to make it sing and dance :-)

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