How do I take full control of my HOME page?

  • Hi All,

    First, my current issue is very similar to the following post:

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/126770?replies=3

    Basically, I want full control over which page my viewers see first, and its order in the URL hierarchy at the top of the page. Basically I’d like all pages (*including and especially the blog page*) treated equally. I want to be able to directly place, edit, publish, etc. all of them.

    Again, mainly though, my current issue is that I want to make the “Home” (blog) page second or third in the URL list, but it’s not accessible from the MANAGE > PAGES section. I’d like something reasonably straightforward.

    Regards

    PS. I’ve already tried plugins like “https://geekyweekly.com/mypageorder”

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  • What is “URL hierarchy”? Never heard of it…

    Give a link, explain what you have and what you want – and we will go from there.
    [In the meantime it doesn’t hurt to study ALL the options in your admin panel]

    Thread Starter humble coder

    (@gberz3)

    My apologies for the confusion. Basically I simply want the position of my “blog” page to be editable in the list of pages on my site. I don’t necessarily want it to be the first page my users see, but I don’t want to get rid of it either. Currently it seems that all solutions (e.g. “Use a Static Home Page”) are all or nothing.

    Currently, across the top of my page are the following:

    HOME(or blog) ABOUT DOWNLOADS DRAWINGS

    I want it to say:

    ABOUT DOWNLOADS HOME(blog) DRAWINGS

    Currently it seems as though the blog page is treated as being “superior” to all other pages. It is not available in the Page Manger section. I simply want “fair treatment” of all pages. Is the position of the blog page strictly dependent upon the theme in use or are there other factors?

    As for a link, I currently have none as I’m working on all local machines.

    Best Regards

    In this case your HOME(blog) page is not a Page.
    For ordering the Pages – read the documentation:
    Template_Tags/wp_list_pages
    See the parameters > sort_order.

    Thread Starter humble coder

    (@gberz3)

    I see. Well, is there any straightforward way to do *exactly* what I want? . . .to manually determine the blog “page”s order transparent to the end user?

    It would be nice if the blog “not-page” were still available as if it were a page. For sorting if nothing else.

    Thank you for your help.

    Regards.

    Try digging in your template.
    Most probably the template sets the Home link first, before looping through page links.

    You can try clicking in your template, and follow the manue to set.
    Most probably the template sets the Home link first, before looping through page links.

    Create a page called “blog” and in the read-settings, you can set “blog” to be your posts page. You can then, by editing the display order of your pages, set your “blog” page anywhere in the navigation, and of course choose a Page of your liking as start page.

    Thread Starter humble coder

    (@gberz3)

    “mores” thank you! That is *exactly* what I was looking for. I suppose I’d been looking at code and such waaaaaay too long yesterday. I simply removed the <li> from the header template and edited that info in the Options section (or even with the “My Page Order” plugin.
    I still wish it didn’t treat the default blog page as anything special, but that was simple enough to edit.

    Thank you all!

    gberz3 I’m not following exactly where you removed the ” ” in the header template. I would love to know how you did this since I’m trying to do the same thing. Thanks in advance!!

    Thread Starter humble coder

    (@gberz3)

    Hi kimmiet,

    Basically my issue was theme-dependent. I simply navigated to “Presentation > Theme Editor” and commented out the “Home” section near the bottom of a given header template. It should be just before the section that calls the ‘wp_list_pages’ function.

    HTH

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