What’s The Best Way to Approach a Static .html Home Page?

  • Resolved joejoomla

    (@joejoomla)


    15 years, 7 months ago

    I’m mostly unfamiliar with WordPress and so there may be a better way to accomplish what I am trying to do…

    I put up a WordPress site for my wife and she requested a static home page to freeze certain content on the front. I uploaded an index.html page in the root level of her site so whenever anyone goes to the domain they land on this page. It looked like all was well until she wrote an article and wanted to preview it. Her preview simply goes to the index.html page.

    The URL example is like this:

    http://exampledomain.com

    I can preview the post by putting the index.php for a post preview like this:

    http://exampledomain.com/index.php?p=359&preview=true

    There is probably a better way to sort this out. Is there is a way to force a single post to remain in the top position of the blog page? That would satisfy her blog requirement right now. Or is there a simple fix for the URL to resolve to the proper URL (index.php) when one has an index.html page?

    Thanks in advance for suggestions.

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  • Thread Starter joejoomla

    (@joejoomla)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    I got the answer to this from a friend who happened to be online tonight. She gave me the names of two different plug-ins that would accomplish this. I decided to go with ‘WP-Sticky‘ which enables you to have an ‘announcement’ post which always stays at the top. It also enables you to have ‘sticky’ posts which stay on top of all the posts that are posted on the same day as the sticky post.

    Instead of deleting my post here I decided to leave it up in case a newbie like me in the future is looking for the same solution.

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