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Thanks for your speedy reply, chradil. I thought of that, but I am hoping to be able to do it within the same install, so that I can move or copy things between the blog and the main site.
I see a lot of sites that use WP for blogging set up this way. I wonder — how many are using two separate installs?
For easy control over the sidebar, either edit sidebar.php or install the plugin sidebar widgets.
I just made my first static home page. To create a static home page, create a text file that contains this, name it home.php and upload it to your theme’s directory in wp-content/themes/:
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="content">YOUR CONTENT HERE</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Re-load hour home page. If it looks funky, <div id="content"></div> may not be exactly what’s used in your theme.
Check to see what styles and divs are used in your current page’s layout. For a quick copy of what would mirror the structure used elsewhere on the site, I started with copying the source from a short post that was already published. Look for what’s in between the end of the header and the start of the sidebar.
