Trying to embed a static front page into a theme

  • alexduff

    (@alexduff)


    14 years ago

    I’ve edited K2 to create a theme for use by school pupils, and I’m now (almost!) happy with it. There’s only one area in it that I’d LOVE you to help me resolve.

    The basic idea is that I don’t want the pupils to have to do ANY customisations, but with my theme, there’s still one thing they need to do:

    I want to set the front page to a static page, and define which page is to hold the blogs. The only way I can find to do this is through Settings -> Reading, however, I want to define this in the theme.

    Is this possible?????

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  • Thread Starter alexduff

    (@alexduff)

    Anyone got any thoughts on this? Would really appreciate some ideas to help me dig in to this a little deeper.

    jeezyo

    (@jeezyo)

    You could create a custom template to display posts, and a custom index template. They’d still have to actually add those pages though.

    Thread Starter alexduff

    (@alexduff)

    They’d still have to actually add those pages though

    Thanks, Jeezyo, but I don’t want the pupils to have to do anything. One option I’m considering (but not liking) is to add an initial post which graphically shows the steps required to add the static pages.

    Would LOVE to get any other thoughts on this!!

    jeezyo

    (@jeezyo)

    There are actually a few plugins which allow you to create a theme based on duplicating an existing site — so it can copy pages, posts, categories, etc. — whatever you choose. So you could set that stuff up ahead of time. Not sure whats out there for free, but ive seen a few premium plugins.

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