Making the homepage look less like a blog entry

Hi there!

Most of what you need can be achieved in the admin panel. I’ve already done some tutorial on these if you are interested.

Setting a page as your default homepage is covered here.

Getting rid of comments on a page or post can be disabled in the edit window of the post or page. Usually that check box is down at the bottom so may have to scroll down a little.

The rearranged tabs can be handled via WordPress custom menu system if your current theme supports it. Which bring me to my next question, what theme are you running? Could give us a link to your site?

Thanks!

Thanks for the link. I’ll check it out.

I’m using the Twenty-Ten theme at the moment, if that helps. I’ve got a ton of them installed, though. Picking out a scheme is going to be harder than I thought! ??

Ah good I’ve actually got a pretty good tutorial on the custom menu system too. You can find that here as well. it caters to the Twenty-Ten theme. Hopefully it helps!

Thanks a lot for the info. I managed to make my “Home” page my front page, as shown in your first video. Only thing: the video says the “Blog” tab we create won’t show up, but it’s in my tabs. Is there a way to make that not show up at all?

If you want to see the site, it’s at https://www.murphyinmaine.com.

You’ve probably got the default menu operating because you haven’t yet created a custom menu to over-ride it.

Create a custom menu (Appearance > Menus) and just leave the ‘blog’ page out of it.

Aha! Getting closer. I called the homepage “Home,” and that’s how it now appears in the menu.

Only thing now is, the article’s title is also “Home.” Any way to remove the headline from a page?

Thanks for all the help so far!

You can change the page title (and ESSENTIAL – the page slug) using the Quick Edit function on the Dashboard >> Pages listing screen.

Sorry to barge in here…

tadhunt said “Getting rid of comments on a page or post can be disabled in the edit window of the post or page. Usually that check box is down at the bottom so may have to scroll down a little.”

I followed his video and no problem creating the Homepage but there is no “check box” at all to remove the “Reply…” that appears at the bottom of the homepage.

I Have seen other posts that instruct one to go into code to “remove some code” but that is fraught with danger unless one is very experienced.

Am I missing something?

Thanks

Tom

Your edit screen might be hiding the “Discussion” option. Click on the Screen Options tab at the top right handof the screen to see, enable it as one of the boxes on your edit-screen, and then you can disallow comments in the checkbox.

Comments and Discussion is unchecked.

The theme I am using is by Artisteer – I wonder if it’s not properly picking up WordPress settings. I wonder if it only picks them up upon installation of a theme.

Should Themes normally be aware of WordPress settings? eg the default installed themes like Kubrick.

Any theme should pick up the WordPress settings.

You could switch the theme to the default Twenty Eleven to check whether it’s still a problem there.

Comments and Discussion is unchecked.

where?

this is a two step process:
first:
under ‘screen options’ – ‘discussion’ needs to be ticked to show the ‘discussion’ area below the page editor.
second:
scroll down to below the page editor to see the ‘discussion’ area, where you can disable the coment for the page.

alternatively, you can disable comments on pages from the ‘pages’ page in the dashboard, via the ‘quick-edit’ link below the page name.

It worked! Thank you very much.

Oh I see. “Screen Options” options refer to what is shown on the Edit Page and not what is shown on the page that is being edited when it is shown on the resulting ….blah blah blah ??

I gave up on the above as I could not give a succinct summary.

@thomasaj: No problem. You asked my next question anyway! ??

Yeah, I found that check box, too. It’s ALMOST perfect, except for one thing… I went into Quick Edit, like tigtog said, and I found the “slug” field (I assume this changes the “headline” that appears on the page), and I changed it and… it still says “Home” as the headline on that page. What am I doing wrong?

Only thing now is, the article’s title is also “Home.” Any way to remove the headline from a page?

try and add something like this to style.css:

.home .entry-title { display: none; }

btw:
strongly consider to create a child theme https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes
otherwise, your customisations might get overwritten with the next upgrade of your wordpress version.

regular backup copies are also useful.