donatkinson

The theme I’m working with is Twenty Ten 1.2.

Unfortunately it’s on my local server so can’t provide a link.
Navigation is hard coded, I’m after about 6 top level pages of which one will be the “Blog” page ( not the homepage which is static ).My Homepage is comprised of the whole page ( header, content and footer ) contained in a home.php page. There are separate header.php, footer.php and sidebar.php for the other pages to use.
I’m also useing navigation which highlights the current tab in the menu.

<ul>
 <li<?php if ( is_home() || is_single() || is_search() || is_archive() ) { echo ' class="current_page_item"'; } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>"><span>Home</span></a></li>
 <li<?php if ( is_page('about')) { echo ' class="current_page_item"'; } ?>><a href="http://localhost:8888/wordpress_9/about/"><span>About</span></a></li>
 <li<?php if ( is_page('our-services')) { echo ' class="current_page_item"'; } ?>><a href="http://localhost:8888/wordpress_9/our-services/"><span>Services</span></a></li>
 <li<?php if ( is_page('portfolio')) { echo ' class="current_page_item"'; } ?>><a href="http://localhost:8888/wordpress_9/portfolio/"><span>Portfolio</span></a></li>
 <li<?php if ( is_page('blog')) { echo ' class="current_page_item"'; } ?>><a href="http://localhost:8888/wordpress_9/blog/"><span>Blog</span></a></li>
 <li<?php if ( is_page('contact'))  { echo ' class="current_page_item"'; } ?>><a href="http://localhost:8888/wordpress_9/contact/"><span>Contact</span></a></li>
 <li<?php if ( is_page('login'))  { echo ' class="current_page_item"'; } ?>><a href="http://localhost:8888/wordpress_9/wp-login.php/"><span>Client Login</span></a></li>
</ul>

I’ve got the blog page calling a custom page template that basically has the index.php code but I’m not seeing any posts coming up.
I can’t select the homepage in the “Reading” option for a static homepage as it doesn’t exist in the created pages in WordPress.

Any help gratefully accepted.
Thanks

Thanks samboll,
Because my home.php comprised of header, index and footer it didn’t exist in my pages and making a new page called home and setting it in the admin settings didn’t seem to work.
I’ve taken your advise and re-addressed the homepage with a custom page template and using the same header.php, sidebar.php and footer.php as all the other pages.
Cheers,