How do I Move Home Page to Root

Hi Gunther,

I don’t believe you can since your blog isn’t installed in the root directory. Unless I’m misunderstanding how this plug in works.

I’ve been playing around with for about a week and I’m not sure I like it… it overrides the index.php will all the latest post… so you don’t see the full post.
https://www.simpletimemanagement.com

I put a most recently posted plug in on the sidebar but the verdict is still out if I like this approach to a static home page.

Ann

Hi Ann
This article almost gives me what i want:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

but i do not want to load index.php as the homepage…i want my static page called Home as the homepage (without redirection of course).

this way anyone navigating to https://www.mydomain.com sees the static Home page off the root, yet the blog stays in the blog folder.

Hi Gunther,

It seems like we are trying to achieve the same thing here… I found this

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

I’m just starting to play around with the suggestions.

Ann

Hi Ann
Thanks for the link…the article is unclear and has too many warnings..it is very poorly written.

… but the link to the other plugin looks good…I will try it as soon as i have a chance…does your server allow you htaccess?

update: the filosofo home page control plug-in was not the right solution for me. i installed, it all it does is this:
Select which page should open when someone requests https://www.mydomain.com/blog/. When set to “WordPress Default”, WordPress loads a file named “home.php” from your template directory if that file exists; otherwise WordPress will load the template’s “index.php” file.

my issue is not with https://www.mydomain.com/blog/ – I’m loading a static page already, no problem.

my question is how do i get that static page to load with
https://www.mydomain.com/ while still retaining my functional blog at https://www.mydomain.com/blog/

gunther, i don’t know much at all about this kind of thing, but i just set up a site and i’m having the exact same problem you are having. i want a site to be like gonintendo.com, where the blog IS the domain, but for some reason, the only thing i can modify is the domain.com/blog, while the domain.com stays unmodified.

mrfong: if i understand you correctly, doing what you want should be very easy to do. it seems now you have the wordpress folders installed in a subfolder called “blog”…instead you need all the blog/wordpress folders uploaded to the root.

from there your gonintendo.com will automatically open index.php and show your blog (remove index.html and index.htm to avoid any conflicts).

if you prefer not to have index.php come up but instead have a static home page..you can do that with the static page plugin (or by creating a file called home.php and using the filosofo plugin).

hope that helps.