Comments on: A Static Home Page

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:59:51 +0000

I finally found out how to do beat an index page template out of Wordpress. The page “index” now loads my last 10 entries, just like root used to. Now I can make my home page all PHP-adellic again! Yeah!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:49:03 +0000

Aha! I get it now… maybe it’s also like rolling your own spliff…

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:49:40 +0000

You know, by hand… like with a rolling pin

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:12:50 +0000

Silly question: what does it mean to “roll” a homepage? I’ve seen this type of wording pop up in a few places recently and I’m just wondering where it comes from…

By: Darin

Darin — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:24:44 +0000

Doh.. So it does the opposite.. Maybe if you do it backwards

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:59:32 +0000

That sounds like a good suggestion, but I’m a bit confused. What would this sort of redirection have to do with making a static home page? I’m not really getting any hits to non-existent URLs to speak of.

By: trevelyan

trevelyan — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:57:06 +0000

“To prevent infinite loops, just have the page pass itself a variable by appending something to the new URL and then query for it using $_GET.”

More easily, just check to see if the address of the requested page already contains your subdirectory.

By: trevelyan

trevelyan — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:50:39 +0000

First of all, nice site redesign Mark.

As far as the technical challenge here goes, one solution might be to change your default “page not found” page into an intelligent redirection script written in PHP. For every page that isn’t found simply grab the requested URL and parse in your new blog subdirectory on the fly. Then redirect to the new page.

To prevent infinite loops, just have the page pass itself a variable by appending something to the new URL and then query for it using $_GET. If your variable returned positive you would be hitting the script a second time and could print out an error message instead of further redirecting. A bit messy, but might be the easiest solution.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:46:03 +0000

That link is talking about doing something a bit different. It tells you how to move your wordpress files into a sub-directory, without changing the appearance of your blog at all. It won’t do anything to your home page.

By: Darin

Darin — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:36:37 +0000

I tried to do something similar once before and also couldn’t get it to work, but supposedly it is possible.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

That link is from inside the options panel in the wp-admin.