Static frontpage with WP 2.1

  • Hi there,

    I wonder if there’s someone willing to help me (perhaps logging onto my site and have a look?).

    I have two themes, the old SG/Dark Theme which I modified abit, and recently U4 from Utombox. The last one should be compatible with WordPress 2.1.

    Though in both themes the “Front page displays” function is not working.

    I would like to have a static frontpage. Been fooling around now for a week or so, just can’t figure it out…

    I would be very grateful if someone would help me.
    Thanks!

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  • “not working” is not a helpful description…

    What did you do and what did happen? (step by step)

    Thread Starter betwixt

    (@betwixt)

    Moshu, thank you for your reply. What I did was:

    * I went in to administrator dashboard.
    * Clicked on “Write”, “Write Page”
    * First made a page called “Blog” and saved it.
    * Then made a page called “Home” and saved it.
    * Clicked on “Options”, then “Reading”.
    * Selected “A static page”.
    * Selected “Front page”: Home.
    * Selected “Posts page”: Blog.
    * Clicked “Update options”.
    * Went to view my site.
    * The “home” and “blog” buttons appeared, nothing works/changes when clicking on them, both in the old and new theme.

    Regards.

    Seemingly you did the right thing – so, it should work.
    I’ve tried to reproduce what you did on a test installation, but for me it works, regardless of themes: meaning if you have that settings in the options it should be “on” for every theme.
    At this point I’d experiment with the two theme from the package – classic and default. If it works with those… then you have an issue with the themes. If it doesn’t work with those either, there is something wrong with your installation/upgrade.

    Thread Starter betwixt

    (@betwixt)

    Hi Moshu, Once again, thank you for your time and your reply. It’s nice that you’re willing to help me for free!

    I tried both default and classic theme. Same problem occurs. So I guess things went wrong with upgrading.

    Also, when I use this sg/dark 1.0 theme, the first page button, has the name of the blog. When I add these two pages, “home” and “blog”, I get both these buttons that don’t do anything when clicking on them. The thing is, I would like to have the default blogname button display the static page, not seeing the home button, since the default blogname button is already a home button, except it’s not a editable page.

    Is there any way you have some time to look at my configuration? I could give you admin acces….
    Really, I would be so grateful.

    Cheers

    Probably, I could – just have to leave now.
    Click on my name and > Contact. Send me the login details through the contact form and I’ll take a look at it later.

    Thread Starter betwixt

    (@betwixt)

    REALLY awesome! I mailed you the details.

    Talk to you later ??

    Thread Starter betwixt

    (@betwixt)

    I must thank Moshu very much, since an incompatible plugin caused the problem. It’s almost solved now, except there is some hardcoded entry in my header that causes me to have an Extra home button with the blogname, as you can see on https://www.ogenwijs.nl. Does someone know what I need to change to get rid of this? Then I can just create a page with the blogname as the title and set it as static frontpage.

    I think I need to change something in this part of the code:

    <?php wp_head(); ?>
    </head>
    <body id=”top”>
    <div id=”menucontainer”>
    <div class=”content”>

      <li <?php if(is_home()) { echo ‘class=”current_page_item”‘; } ?>>“><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>
      <?php wp_list_pages(‘sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&depth=1’); ?>

    </div>
    </div>

    Thread Starter betwixt

    (@betwixt)

    Nevermind, I kind of solved it by removing the part from a href till bloginfo.

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