1. With the help of the Template Hierarchy article, determine what Template is used to display your Pages (e.g. pages.php or index.php).
2. Copy the template from step 1 to myfront.php. If you were using the WordPress Default theme you would copy wp-content/themes/default/page.php to wp-content/themes/default/myfront.php
3. Create a Page called MyFront and use myfront for the Page Template.
4. In Administration > Settings > Reading set “Front page displays” to “A static page”, and select ‘MyFront’ for “Front page:”, and something else for “Posts page:”
5. Once that’s all working, now start working on myfront.php to make it look like what you want.
All well and good. (you knew there was a ‘but’ coming)
I wish to create a stand-alone html based site and have the blog piggy-back upon it.
So. A 6 page html site with just one link (on the index.html page) to the blog.
I cannot (for this customer) use a MyFront/Home Page/anything.php file as a template (anywhere) AND I cannot have the blog in a seperate folder 🙁
Zero php on first arriving at the site or navigating the html photo-albums but as soon as the ‘blog’ button is hit – bam! WordPress blogness extravaganza.
Thanks.
