Chris Dill
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Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: To WWW or not to WWWI fixed it, by changing both the WP Admin and my hosting to point to no www, which is what I was aiming at. Of course my search statistics I think are messed up now. I cleaned out my WP Super Cache as well, hope I didn’t much it up.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Home Page with Custom Page Template with different structureWhat I am aiming at is you go to my blog at http://smartbserver.net
The page that is displayed is my own design page, with elements and structure taken from my theme, but not all of it. I.e. I want to keep the navigation bars, header, footer, but the main body of the page I want free reign with. I would like to have full http/css code access, so that if I want I can change the size and position of existing elements, and add new elements.
On the navigation bar of this custom design page (which might in the end look nothing like the rest of my site), when someone clicks the Blog link, they are then taken to my blog roll, which uses 100% Traction Theme.
Someone on another thread mentioned copy and renaming page.php to front-page.php, applying a custom template, and then using different css, etc.
Thank you very much esmi, I will investigate this as I move forward. for now I changed my front page to the blog roll for traffic purposes. I think I will design this front-page in the background and in a few weeks switch it back. I already have my custom CSS laid out in child stylesheets, so I am half way there.
Hmmm, I will have to investigate this later this evening. I could have sworn I tried this, though i named is custompage.php and I could not get it to show up in the WP admin console.
I think I may still not be connecting here. If I copy page.php, I will in reality have two home pages- which I only need one of.
So right now in my WP admin I have 4 pages, home, blog, contact, and about. I would like to replace the one there with my custom page. this means when users browsed to http://smartbserver.net/ they would be at this page, with its custom layout.
Am I on the right page with what you are saying? With my custom page template and “home” created in WP admin, can I just edit this page so I do not have two of them?
Except that this page is not manageable from within the WordPress Admin console, correct?
Also, how would I define for the static front page to use a different layout, when it just consists of php calls. you can see what I mean here
See how the content is on the left even though i removed the right sidebar? How do I get my main content to span the entire gray area, only on that page?
That page was designed using the wordpress admin, and shows up without a .php ending.
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