Static Homepage (WordPress as CMS)

  • Emery

    (@emery)


    16 years, 7 months ago

    In WordPress 2.2.3 I’m trying to use a static homepage. I created two pages, “Home” and “Blog” and under Options->Reading I set these as the front page and posts page, respectively. However… when I go to the home page it doesn’t load a home.php if there is one, but rather the “Blog” posts page DOES. And in any event, the posts page doesn’t have the current_page_item class in a wp_list_pages generated navigation.

    Bugs?

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Try to rename the ‘home.php’ to something else and make it a real Page template (see Pages).

    yeleek

    (@yeleek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Bugs – no.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates

    Home – home will not become a home.php file, it will be content pulled in directly from your wp database dynamically based on the template you use (see link).

    Blog – Why create a page?? If you want a webpage to return all posts (and i’m guessing this is what you want) posted to the blog category. Then have a link for that category not a specific WP page.
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates

    Thread Starter Emery

    (@emery)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    I figured you are supposed to create a blog page because Options->Reading has a drop-down list for selecting the “Posts page”. What is that for if not a page that contains the blog posts?

    yeleek

    (@yeleek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Its for a page that displays your posts – but you’d need to add the template tags to that specific template file so as to pull in your posts from the various categories – which could get complex.

    Easier to have a link on your front page that links to http://domain/category/blog/

    Read the codex – it will make sense.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Its for a page that displays your posts – but you’d need to add the template tags to that specific template file so as to pull in your posts from the various categories – which could get complex.

    Not true. Any Page selected in the Reading options as “posts page” will display all your posts. No need for messing around with template files. Just have a Page created to use it.

    yeleek

    (@yeleek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    How would the page get the posts for the blog category in this instance though if not via the use of tags? i.e. rather than pull in all posts, pulls in the blog posts?

    yeleek

    (@yeleek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Gave the page to display posts a try, it displays from all categories. You’ll have to wait for Moshu to reply to see how you could get just blog posts to appear on that page. Unless of course you only have a blog category?

    In the meantime I’d still go with a blog category link from the front page. Its what i’ve done on the CMS i’m working on.

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