Richard & Stephanie Sipe

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This is just what I was looking for, however being fairly new to WordPress you lost me at, “2) Change your template as necessary to become your new static home page.”

I do know what The Loop is at least.

I am also using K2. I wonder if that will change these instructions for me at all?

Is there any way you might be able to explain the changing of the home page template a little bit more?

Hi Richard,

Your screenshots above have one element on the page that I do not see and that is the “Page Template” option. Where does that come from?

Regards,

Mike

Mike, The “Page Teplate” option is only available when you add or edit a Page and not on the Post admin section. This is a bit confusing in WordPress but there is a difference between Pages and Posts. Posts are your blog posts such as this one and use the loop while Pages can have static and other content, such as your About Us page.

Hi Richard,

First–thank you for writing this up. I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this for a couple of days.

In your post you mention that there is a way to access the loop from the new static homepage. I’ve looked over the posts on your site that are categorized as technology but didn’t find one about that. I’d like to put two posts on my home page–the most recent posts from each of two categories. I expect that I’ll need to access the loop to do this–can you point me toward a resource that can explain how to get the loop on the static page?

In any case, thanks again for taking the time to write up an explanation of the static homepage feature.

Best,

Steve

Wanted to mention that I just found and am experimenting with Scott Rielly’s Customizable Post Listings plug-in, and so far it looks like that may add the functionality I’m looking for to the static homepage–so that, combined with this article, may do the trick.

(http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/08/27/plugin-customizable-post-listings/)

Best,

Steve

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I’m trying to do this on my own page. The problem I am having, is on my static page I want to display my most recent entry. By default the page template has the loop but it pulls the static page title as the post title, and then whatever I’ve entered into admin as the content, as opposed to an actual post.

Any advice you could give would be most appreciated.

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I have finally followed up this post with one that describes how to get to your posts when you have a static homepage configured in WordPress.

Check it out here: http://www.richandstephsipe.com/wordpress/2007/04/24/wordpress-loop-in-a-static-homepage/

OK, couple clarity please… which “index.php” do I copy… from within the (1) themes/name( theme) folder (2) from within the wp-contents folder, or (3)from from within /root ? (there are these 3 in my structure). When I copied the theme/index.php back to my c:/ then renamed as said (home_temp.php) and named (text editor), loaded to theme folder… my page/login… did not show, could not log-in??
I removed the file from folder, then went to browser, tried login and it work! obvious placing a “new” php file by ftp into the directory, was the problem. obviously I can’t get to next steps past no1. Any suggestions?… Great tute by the way… pity about my stuckness.

David: You need to copy the index.php file from your theme folder, rename it, change the header template designation, and then place it back into the theme folder.

Let me know if that works for you.

Rich

Hi -

if I am creating a new site with nothing on it – and I want it to entirely *look* like my chosen theme, but I want the home page and a couple more static pages as well as a blog, do i install the blog in the root? It is all brand new, so will be the latest wordpress edition. do you offer a service to help get it installed as I want?

Hello,

Thanks for clarifying things. With the new 2.1 feature for front page, it is indeed very confusing when searching the web, as you get old hacks mixed with some new things. Your page helps a lot. Unfortunately it doesn’t work for me.
I followed your procedure but wordpress then displays the same content in my front page and my blog page, meaning the posts of the blog.
I’ve been trying to figure out whats wrong for quite a few hours now, but i’m helpless! If you or someone else could give me a hand to find out the culprit, i would be most grateful!

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[...] hardly any documentation on this new feature although I found this interesting article on how to create a static homepage on Richard and Stephanie Sipe’s blog and, while it shows you how to can select Static pages for the Front Page (home) and Posts Page, [...]

Hi, followed all your steps and it worked out well, thanks. But I am stuck on now having 2 home pages. Per the second to last question here, do you know how I can get this done?

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/103500?replies=14#post-628183

Thanks,

Michael

Thank you for writing this up. It worked for me and I’ve linked to this post from my own blog.

Say, I have version 2.2.1 of Wordpress, yet the “Page Template” selection isn’t on there. What’s wrong?

@john
that happened to me too.
you have to check your template dir, there should be php file with the content:

then the “Page Template” selection will appear.

Well I started following Richards suggestion, only to find that the current version 2.3.3 does not seem to have the box to set the “Page Template” which I guess that 2.2 did have.

So … I am stuck again

How am I supposed to do this in vers 2.3.3 ?

My siye is at : http://www.fethiye-guide.com

where you will see the link to the blog.

What I want to do is use the same theme from the blog on my website home (static) page

Any help much appreciated.

Hi,
Thanks for the explantion. My question is I have set every thing up as you said, but have 2 “Home” Links on the top of my site. Is there any way to hide one of them?

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Hello,I am trying to create a static home page as you described but the top nav is not coming out properly. I end up with two “Home” tabs. Is the ability to do this dependent on the Theme you are using? Thanks! Michael

Michael – I think you can just delete the “old” Home page in your Wordpress Admin site because you have created a new static wordpress home page to replace that one. Your theme is just outputting all the pages it finds in the DB and there are two “Home” pages right now I am guessing.

Same problem as Michael. I followed all the steps here but end up with 2 home pages.

And when I click on “blog” it sellects automaticaly the old “home page” with it.

So I end up with 2 simultaneous selection for the same page….

Any idea of how to delete the old home page ?

Thanks a lot!!!

Thank you for this information.