Title: Redirect static front page.
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Redirect static front page.

 *  [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * (@gulliver)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-static-front-page/)
 * On an install for a colleague, there’s a static front page with the blog published
   at ‘/notes’.
 * He temporarily wants the site to open with the blog posts, and so I’m trying 
   to redirect that static front page accordingly.
 * But despite having read various suggestions, I’ve not yet found one to work.

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 *  Thread Starter [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * (@gulliver)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-static-front-page/#post-2355856)
 * Ok, solved…
 * Seems that the front page has to have a template called ‘front-page’ – even if
   it’s named something different in the code (in this case my font-page.php has‘
   Template Name: redirect’), and simply ignores whatever template is specified 
   in ‘page attributes’.
 * Hhhmmm…. very strange.. But as this is WordPress, perhaps not. Oh well, just 
   another day.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-static-front-page/#post-2355861)
 * > Seems that the front page has to have a template called ‘front-page’
 * No – that’s not correct. **If** your theme has a front-page.php template file,
   it will be used automatically by a static front Page. If it doesn’t, the Page
   will use page.php unless you assign a different custom template file.
 *  Thread Starter [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * (@gulliver)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-static-front-page/#post-2355868)
 * Not in my install…
 * I just renamed ‘front-page.php’ to ‘redirect.php’ (the template called in page
   attributes) – and it doesn’t load correctly. Re-renaming to ‘front-page.php’ 
   makes it redirect.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-static-front-page/#post-2355874)
 * Then there’s something very wrong within your install. See [Theme_Development](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development)
   for an overview of the template hierarchy.
 *  Thread Starter [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * (@gulliver)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-static-front-page/#post-2355888)
 * I happily take your point, and this’ll have to be something to which I might 
   return another day.

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 * Last reply from: [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-static-front-page/#post-2355888)
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