Your question is not quite clear to me. Do you want to have blog posts show up as part of a static page, or just to have a separate blog page in an otherwise static site?
When you set a page as the Posts page in Settings, it will use the file home.php if it exists. If you have used home.php as the name for your static front page, you will need to name it something else – frontpage.php, for example.
Then, set that as the template for your static front page.
Hope that makes sense.
Thread Starter
NFWRo
(@nfwro)
Hi vtxyzzy
Thank you for your reply. I’m sorry that I wasn’t clear. This is a static site using the page template for all pages. However, I understood that to achieve a differently laid out home page I could put a home.php in and it would pick that up for the home page of the site.
I understand what you mean when you say that the Posts page will use home.php (I thought it would use index.php) and can easily rename the home.php page, however, I am unsure exactly what method you refer to when you say set it as the template for the static front page?
To answer your first question, I guess it is the first, the blog posts will be part of a static page called News that will appear on the menu bar.
Thanks
First, you need to rename home.php to frontpage.php. Then you need to edit frontpage.php and add the Template Name comment at the front of the file like this:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Front Page
*/
?>
To set the renamed frontpage.php as the template, create or edit a Page and change the template from default to Front Page.
Then, in Admin->Settings->Reading, set your new Page as the ‘Front Page:’ in the dropdown, and set News as the ‘Posts page:’.
Thread Starter
NFWRo
(@nfwro)
Hello vtxyzzy
Thank you so much. That worked like a dream right up to my news.html as the Posts page. When not set as the Posts page it appears if I type in the URL. When set to the Posts page, I get a Remote server or file not found error, not, I have to say, a 404 error.
As one way of fixing it, I’ve put my loop into home.php instead of index.php bearing in mind what you said in your last post about it using home.php, but it didn’t work. Have I got the wrong end of the stick somewhere?
Thanks
I am sorry, I did not realize that the news page is an html file. Create an empty Page titled News and use that as the Posts page.
Thread Starter
NFWRo
(@nfwro)
The .html comes from the “.html on PAGES plugin” to help with continuity of SEO.
I have tried disabling the plugin, but still get the same result viewing the page as just news in the url or news.html.
Having said that, I did do exactly as you said. I created an empty page entitled News and set that as the Posts page. I currently have both an index.php and a home.php in my template folder that contain the loop.
Thread Starter
NFWRo
(@nfwro)
Almost as soon as I sent the previous post, I wondered about the home.php being there, got rid of it, and it now works! Since yesterday I can’t remember why I reintroduced it.
Thank you so much for all your help – it’s very much appreciated 🙂
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