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Is your main page a WordPress page or an html one ?

What I’d do is create a new php file called for example homepage.php.

You want start that file with this statement :

<?php
/*
Template Name: Homepage
*/
?>

Then

1. copy/paste your index.php, or
2. copy/paste your html page in it (plus a call for the header and the footer, which you’ll find in any index.php)

…and add the code I provided avobe, before the call for the footer for example. Save it and upload it into your theme.

Once that done, create a WordPress page in the text editor, fill it with the static text you want (or with nothing at all in the case that your static text is hardcoded as html), select the page template we just created for it, and publish.

Now go to the Admin Settings and show that page as the Home of your website.

The Mr.Marco alternative is cool too, no pain at all.

Hi actionmedia,

The easiest way to do this is adding to your static page a get_posts call.

Here’s one example of a minimal Loop of that kind :

<?php
 global $post;
 $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5&category=1');
 foreach($myposts as $post) :
 ?>
 <?php the_title(); ?>
 <?php the_content(); ?>
 <?php endforeach; ?>

You can insert it everywhere in your page : sidebar, bottom … and you can specify how many posts you’ll show (in this case I’ve set up 5), and from which category (you can use too &categoryname=WHATEVER if you prefer).

Hope that helps.

Hi, for the people interested in that, I just discovered the ‘how-to’ to this issue.

You can copy and paste the code in single.php dedicated to produce the comments, in a brand new custom page, and in the case you have by default a separated comments file (comments.php), open it and copy it, or call it through PHP :

<?php comments_template(); ?>

You will find the code in the Deafult theme which comes with WordPress.

The final Page you could create, if you have a comments.php file in your theme, would look like that :

<?php
/*
Template Name: MyCustomPage
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>

	<?php if (have_posts())
	 : while (have_posts())
	 : the_post();
	 ?>

		<?php the_title(); ?>
		<?php the_content(); ?>
<!-- THE FOLLOWING WILL CALL FOR THE COMMENTS TEMPLATE -->
		<?php comments_template(); ?>

	<?php endwhile;
	 endif;
	 ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>