{"id":1339967,"date":"2010-01-11T18:35:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T18:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/static-home-page-issues\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T15:16:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:16:01","slug":"static-home-page-issues","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/static-home-page-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Static home page issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

I created a page to use as a static homepage based on a template. In it I have added code to show posts below the static content. I can see the page fine if I go to it directly <\/p>\n

(here: http:\/\/thewillowfarm.com\/wordpressTEST\/home-2<\/a>) <\/p>\n

but it won’t display as the actual Home page that the “Home” link in the nav bar links to.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thewillowfarm.com\/wordpressTEST\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Perhaps I over thought this approach, but would love to get it working.<\/p>\n

Here’s the code for the template:<\/p>\n

<?php\n\/*\n * Template Name: home\n *\/\n?>\n<?php\n\nget_header(); ?>\n\n\t<div id="content" role="main">\n\n<!-- PAGE -->\n\t\t<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>\n\t\t<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">\n                <?php breadcrumb_trail(); ?>\n\t\t<h2>\n                  <?php\n                      if (function_exists('ghpseo_output'))\n                             ghpseo_output('secondary_title');\n                      else the_title();\n                  ?>\n                <\/h2>\n\t\t\t<div class="entry">\n\t\t\t\t<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;<\/p>'); ?>\n\n\t\t\t\t<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:<\/strong> ', 'after' => '<\/p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<?php endwhile; endif; ?>\n\t<?php edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '<p>', '<\/p>'); ?>\n<!-- END PAGE -->\n\n<!-- POSTS -->\n<h1 id="whatsNew">What's New at The Willow Farm<\/h1>\n\n\t<?php $temp_query = $wp_query; ?>\n\t<?php query_posts("showposts=2"); ?>  \n\n\t<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>\n\t\t\t<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">\n\t\t\t\t<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?><\/a><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --><\/small>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class="entry">\n\t\t\t\t\t<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br \/>'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<?php endwhile; ?>\n<!-- END POSTS -->\n\n\t<\/div><!-- END Content div -->\n\n<?php get_sidebar(); ?>\n\n<?php get_footer(); ?><\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1339967","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-static-home-page"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1339967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1339967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}