Can I edit the homepage

If you want a permanent home page (not like a standard blog) then look at https://www.semiologic.com/software/static-front/

Thanks for the example. I will like to create something similar. Can you help with the questions?

If you apply the plugin as per the example you will have a static homepage which you can then design as you wish as per a normal web site.

The homepage design will be controlled by a template you create called home.php which will need to placed in your theme directory.

You then write a page, as you suggest, and select the template ‘home.php’ as the template for this page.

Thanks

Here’s a plugin I wrote that also might help you.

Hiya the plugin works well. However, my homepage is different to the index.php. How do I combine the two? Furthermore, does your plugin resolve question2 …How to post on a single page only?

thanks for the assistance
Seacat

Hi

Im still having problems with this. Im unable to edit the homepage(index.php) I created another page called home and then applied the static front plugin. However, while solving one problem it create another which is that the “home”page is different from index.php. How can I resolve this?

Furthermore I will like to be able to post into one page at a time(like in normal html page) and not for all posts to go to the first page.

Any help will be appreciated.

thanks
Seacat

Can anyone help with this same problem? I have a page called “home”. This page is different from index.php.
I will like to make them the same page like in a standard html site. I am unable to edit the index.php or even make it the home page from page edit on the dashboard. I have read up on the wordpress help pages and lots of the other posts and yet I have been unable to resolve this. Have I incorrectly installed wordpress? Perhaps im not explaining the problem well. (Fustrated bald guy tearing remaining hair out!)

I am having a hard time understanding what you’re trying to accomplish, but it’s probably just that I’m dense.

WordPress has theme files that live in /wp-content/themes/[theme name directory]/. One of them should be index.php, which is the default file used for everything, including posts and pages, unless there are other files in the theme directory.

If there’s a file in the the directory named “home.php”, then WordPress will use that (instead of index.php) as the template when someone requests your home page (by home page I mean the “Blog address” set under Options > General in the admin control panel).

Now it’s possible that you have created a page called “home” under pages in the WordPress admin control panel. (This has nothing to do with the home.php file; it’s just a name for a certain page that lives in the database, not in a file.) If you don’t have any other files in your WordPress theme’s directory, WordPress will use the index.php file when it shows the “home” page.

So, here’s what confuses me about what you’re saying. When we talk about a page named “home,” we’re talking about the content of a particular page created within WordPress, stored in the database. When we talk about the theme’s index.php file, we’re talking about a particular file used to markup that content, not the content itself, and it’s stored in a directory. They’re different kinds of things, just like the text in a book is different from a particular binding. So when you say,

I have a page called “home”. This page is different from index.php. I will like to make them the same page like in a standard html site.

I don’t understand what you mean.