tgpoletti

Hm..first I want to thank you, dragonsjaw, for the advice. I am working with a child theme.

I wrote the rest of this post (first) because I don’t know how to create a dynamic custom page. I think I may have summarized your solution in different words as my “second solution”, but to be honest there is a really good chance that I have no idea what I’m talking about. I am trying to understand, though.

I know that I have the option of creating a static home page, and later incorporating the blog roll. Although I don’t exactly how I would go about creating that blog roll, I think I can figure it out with a little google magic or a plugin.

I want to, if possible, avoid that.

The reasoning, is that I would like my navigation bar to be consistent with the rest of the site and I generally like the current layout. Since I am new to this, I don’t want to my static page to look less clean than the rest of the site.

The two possible solutions that I am wondering are, and mind you I don’t know how possible this is: to, for example, isolate an area like ‘widget area 2’ from the rest of the sidebar and place it somewhere else on the page with css OR create a new php page with some html markup in it and call it in the index file, then position and style it with css.

Now… that last bit to me seems to make the most sense, granted that I only have a vague notion of how php works and don’t really know too much about it or how to actually write the code, if its even possible, to make something like that work.

Of course, if I have to markup a static page, then I can figure it out. I just want to work with the given framework if possible.

[No bumping, thank you.]