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1. webjive81
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   OK...so I've been through tons of tutorials and documentation and I feel like I am stumped here.

   I want to have a separate static homepage and have a separate blog page - both referencing different templates.

   homepage = home.php
   blog = index.php

   What I've done so far:
   - I changed the Settings > Reading to (Front Page: Home | Posts page: Blog)
   - I created both "Pages" and assigned them to the appropriate templates.

   Problem: When I go to click on "Blog" in the navigation (on the live site), it pulls up the home.php template. Any ideas?

2. davesgonebananas
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   home.php is reserved in the Template Hierarchy. It's worth noting that in WordPress 'home' is the blog index, whereas 'front page' is the home page.

   Call the template homepage.php or frontpage.php or anything that's not in the template hierarchy and you should be sweet.

   Dave

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