Greetings and happy new year 2006,
I would like to somehow redefine "home()" -- the reason is that I would like the default page to be a category view.
Namely, if you go to http://blog.swiatek.name (a useless blog with information nobody reads :)) you will see that there is a horizontal menu which is an ennumeration of the categories.
What I would like to have is to directly jump into the "paplanie" category (first menu item) when accessing http://blog.swiatek.name
(in other words so that http://blog.swiatek.name in fact opens http://blog.swiatek.name/?cat=1). I know how to do redirections in Apache but I would prefer to use a clean and native wordpress mechanism.
I understand that this will effectively break my blog into a few blogs accessible via the horizontal manu and that I will not have a page listing all posts -- and this is exactly what I am looking for :)
I would be grateful for a pointer (or solution).
Thank you,
Wojtek
Try adding something like this to a file named functions.php in your theme's directory. It adds a rewrite rule that should do what you want. (functions.php needs to begin with <?php and end with ?>).
function home_redirect($rules) {
$newrules['$'] = 'index.php?cat=1';
$rules = array_merge($newrules,$rules);
return $rules;
}
add_filter('rewrite_rules_array', 'home_redirect');
It works for me.
Thanks for the hint but it did not work.
Now - I wonder whether the finctions.php file is read in at all. I have a similar problem with the style.css file -- if I update it the changes do not appear (for instance for my horizontal menu). If I add the CSS entries directly in header.php then it works.
I use WordPress 2.0 -- the latter used to work in 1.5.
Just a though -- I would appreciate someone more knowledgable to comment.
Thank you,
Wojtek
I decided to go for mod_rewrite in Apache to handle this and it works. I added lines like
RewriteRule /paplanie /index.php/?cat=1
in the definition of my virtual host (together with a RewiteEngine on).
The question of style.css not being parsed is still there, though :)
Thanks,
Wojtek
Now - I wonder whether the finctions.php file is read in at all.
It should be functions.php not finctions.php.
Sorry for the delay - I had some issues with the blog and reverted back to pure standards :)
The summary is that the trick above definitely does not work (sorry for the typo in the name - I was of course looking at functions.php).
I really wonder whether this file is parsed at all as it was empty before I added the lines suggested by filosofo
wsw70
