Yes, look up “static front page” on this forum and you’ll find plenty of advice.
I’m looking for something similar, but that flash intro page can’t be the front/home page.
I’d prefer to not move the wordpress into a subdirectory.
So really, I would like to maintain the index.php in the root folder. Has anyone found a solution?
Actually it *could* still be the home page, depending on what exactly your flash intro does and how you need to present it. Couple options I can suggest for now:
1. Add a home.php to your theme. This will override index.php for the home or front page of your blog. There are some downsides to this, such as losing the top level blog/posts page just beyond the splash.
2. http://wordpress.org/support/topic/68310#post-361092
This expands on the idea of using a home.php, but can let you retain some of what you might lose from 1.
The easiest solution I found was just to make an index.html and put it in the same directory as the WP installation. It automatically serves index.html before index.php.
In an earlier site I was working it this meant that clicking on “home” or the logo sent you to the index.html. And when you were writing a post/page, the “View>>” link would also come out wrong.
But now that I’m working on a new site, it doesn’t seem to be a problem. So that’s how I solved my problem.
