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Creating a Static Front Page in Word Press
By Martin English | October 4, 2006
For various reasons, you may want to present users with a static page, but still use your word press themes etc. Happily, there’s a WordPress plugin, Filosofo Home-Page Control, that does easily, without manipulating your code or editing.
- Install plugin.
- Choose which page to be the home page.
Thats the functionality I’m using at the moment.
I’m also experimenting with the appearance of a subdirectory – not really much use for me as this blog appears under the playpen directory anyway, but for the sake of science and to while away another SAP install…
- Install plugin.
- Choose which page to be the home page.
- Declare the directory you wish for your blog.
OK so that’s a tiny bit more complicated… It even double checks the structure for permalinks, and tells you how to create a home page template.
BTW, doing this without a plugin is covered in the wordpress documentation at Creating a Static Front Page.
EDIT: as it turned out, the virtual subdirectory link is usefull… It lets me put a link to ../playpen/blog over in the sidebar, so that every page can go straight back to the latest posts.
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