I have done the following:
Template: Home
Page:
name: home
slug: home
template: home
Permalinks: %postname%
Reading->Front Page: homeOn my home page I've got text and a gallery of images.
Everything works fine if I visit the page directly with:
http://site/home/
But if I visit the root and WP renders home as the front page the gallery doesn't display, though the text still does.
http://site/
I am getting the page like so:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Home
*/
$page = Array("about" => 2); // will be bringing content from other pages
$home = get_page($pages['about']);
?>And then rendering it:
<?php echo apply_filters('the_content', $home->post_content); ?>
To remedy the problem I tried a quick bandaid approach of checking the get variables for page_id--if absent, forward to /home and the images work great. That worked with permalinks set to default. Now that I've got permalinks enabled, the get array is always empty!
So I've got a bandaid approach right now, I dropped this at the top of my Home template.
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == '/') {
header('location: /home/');
}So my first hope is to get it to work w/o having a redirect. Seems like it's something similar to apply_filters. If not possible, I'm totally fine with checking the request uri and then forwarding to /home
