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1. rosspruden
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Okay, I'm not a noob here. I've scoured a bunch of posts and books and still can't seem to find a simple and elegant solution to my satisfaction.

   All I want is to create a simple html file for a static home/splash page. I don't want it to look anything like WordPress. I simply want it to point to different links on the site. Simple, right?

   I also really want the site to have intuitive URLs:

   example.com <-- home page / splash page (the one I hand code with HTML)
   example.com/blog <-- the blog page
   example.com/about <-- self-explanatory
   example.com/contact <-- self-explanatory

   I know about the Reading settings:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
   and using Permalinks,
   and also about using the WordPress address and Site Address.

   Currently I have WordPress in its own sub-directory (under "/blog"), mainly for cosmetic reasons (perhaps my first mistake?), but each time I point the site address URL from "example.com/blog" to "example.com", the site goes offline.

   Thoughts?

   Oh — this is a brand new install, so I can clean the DB tables, etc., with no problem if need be.

2. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   if WP is in the blog directory, you can't make the url example.com

   It would have to be example.com/blog

   if you want to get rid of the /blog, you need to run wordpress from the root rather than a subdirectory

   But if you want to have a separate document residing in root, you really can't also have WP in root

3. rosspruden
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hmm.... so it seems the short answer is, "no." :)

   So I guess my question is—is what I want even possible? I'm pretty sure I've seen hotlinked non-WP splash pages on other WP blogs...

4. rosspruden
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Interesting. Take esmi's post:

   Create a new page template, name it "Splash Page". Add to theme. Create new page in WP using new template. Use Admin/Reading/ to set front page display to static page and pick new page from dropdown.

   The new splash page template doesn't have to use the_content or the_excerpt. You can hardcode the page's content within the template.

   So is it possible/safe to create a WP page but strip away its header, its contents, etc. Basically, let it retains its central WP coding, but to the naked eye, it doesn't (necessarily) look like a WP page?

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