Is the static page that you are trying to create a part of WP or not?
If it is indeed a part of WP, you can just go to Options -> Reading and choose one of the static pages as your front page. As long as you have the index.php in the root (/) directory, everything is fine. Just ensure that you edit it to reflect your WP path.
If it is not a part of WP, that is fine too. As long as the index.php exists in the /wp directory (and its reference has been changed accordingly), you can do http://www.mydomain.com/wp and get to it.
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Thread Starter
Eric
(@emartin24)
Thanks for the reply. I think I understand what you are saying, but am not sure if it solves my quest…
Here is what I would like:
– WP as a “CMS”
– WP under mydomain.com/wp < done
– mydomain.com/ < a static page rendered by WP
– mydomain.com/blog < WP posts
– mydomain.com/xyz < WP pages (about, contact, etc)
Thread Starter
Eric
(@emartin24)
I just started working with WP and am just curious if the above is easily possible…or if I need to find a different structure/method.
By CMS, do you mean Content Management System?
And from what I understand, all that you ask for is definitely possible using WP.
Here’s what I’d suggest –
– Install WP in the /blog directory
– Copy the index.php to the / directory
– Go to WP and create static-page (by doing to Write -> Pages)
– Go to Options -> Reading and set the front page to be static-page.php from the pages list
– To get to your home page, use /
– To get to your blog, use /blog
– Create additional pages as you wish in your templates.
Alternatively, if you have installed WP in the /wp directory, that is fine too. You can simply create a redirect HTML page in the /blog directory and point it to the /wp directory.
While this would functionally work, I’d recommend installing it straight because search engines and spiders do not like redirects all that much.
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1) Make sure that WordPress is installed as usual. The blog messages are shown on the default “front” page. In your case it would be URL/wp/
2) Create a static web page using “Write page”. That will become your new front page.
3) Edit Options->Reading->Frontpage displays: A static page
Assign a static front page (choose the one you want; see #2)
Assign a blog page (call it “blog”)
4) Make sure, that after this change the default page is URL/wp and the blog is URL/wp/blog
5) IF everything worked out, move WordPress back to where it was, to remove the extra /wp/…
Thread Starter
Eric
(@emartin24)
That does help…thank you very much for the suggestions!
Thread Starter
Eric
(@emartin24)
So, here’s what I’ve done:
– Installed WP in /blog
– Copied index.php into /
– Updated URL options to /blog
– Created a page, called Home
– Set Home as the front page
So now when I go to /, I see the Home static page. But I also see it when I go to /blog.
So,
1) What do I need to do to make /blog display the most recent posts?
EDIT – I got this one figured out. I just created a blog page (as suggested previously 😉 ) and then changed my blog URL to /.
2) What is the best way to give each page a custom look and feel? Do I just assign them different templates?
Thanks for the help 😉
Thread Starter
Eric
(@emartin24)
Pretty cool…the reading options has allowed me to setup my root as one page and my blog as another. I was trying to make it a lot harder than it really is 😉
Now I just need to work on the templates/design!
Thanks again for the help.
