It depends a little on your theme, but I think what you want is to create a new blank page (title it ‘My Blog’, for example).
Then, go to Admin->Settings->Reading and assign your intro page as a Static Front Page, and your ‘My Blog’ page as the Blog page.
what do you do with the index.php page?
sorry for the noobery
the add pages thing isnt working for me.
is it possible to add pages another way?? a cleaner way??
im currently looking into add_option / get_option functions. am i going in the right direction??
ok, ive tried everything and i just dont understand.
my index.php file displays an intro slideshow and then the 5 latest featured posts (this is done by creating a custom meta field whereby it tells whether the post is regular or featured).
i would like another page to display all of the posts. ive tried using templates (changing my intro page to home.php and my posts page to projects.php – and then creating the pages for both).
but all this does is show my home.php on every page.
is there another way to add pages so that i can display custom loops on each??
i figured it out! for my home.php:
<?php
$args = array (
'meta_key' => '_project_type',
'meta_value' => 'Featured',
'showposts' => '5'
);
query_posts($args);
?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
and for my projects.php:
<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args = array (
'paged' => $paged,
'posts_per_page' => '15'
);
query_posts($args);
?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
just do what vtxyzzy said but instead of checking the static box, just use the dropdowns and it should work
