Integrating old WP 1.0.1 in the new theme system

The theme system doesn’t really like to have file names that are not “known” by the system, e.g. new.php.

I assume you’ve already gone through the “make-your-style-a-theme” drill ??
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Upgrade_1.2_to_1.5
and have a basic theme in place for the original design.

Now in the theme system you can have a home.php in the theme folder and you can edit it (to have or not have WP thins in it, e.g. take out the Loop and insert your hardcoded content!)
WHen the blog is accessed home.php takes precedence over the index (see Template_Hierarchy) and show whatever you have there. For the rest the index will be used.

Thanks Moshu, but then what would be the url of the new “index.php” that I have to put in the menu? If I provide the whole path (i.e. /wp-content/themes/my theme/index.php) I get a 404.

sorry… what I get is the

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_header() in /home/danielle/public_html/wp/wp-content/themes/canevas/index.php on line 1

What exactly do you intend to show on the index.php?
Or, in other words: where do you want to go from the home.php?

Based on the earlier version it seems new.php was showing the latest “posts”
https://www.natureinarts.com/new.php
right? seemingly manually inserting tables and other trickeries in ONE single post. Am I wrong? Question: from which category is this post?

There might be different workarounds… depending on what exactly the structure of the content should be.

You’re right. Actually, the “new.php” is set to show only the last 2 posts. The most recent is from “equine” and the other from “north american wild life”. But this may change, depending on the latest pictures of the artist. If she comes with only 1 new paintimg, then I will set WP to show only the last post, whatever category it happens to be in. If she comes with 3 new paintings, all of diverse categories, then I will adjust WP accordingly. Does that answer your question?

Partly, yes.
Does that mean you are changing the number of posts shown all the time? Isn’t there some kind of pattern, pre-set rule in place?
(Just trying to understand. If the artist comes up with a new picture or two… you have to go into the code and change it accordingly? What if you are not around?)

And now thinking aloud:
– What if you make a category called “new”?
The most recent pictures posts would be posted to that category and, when a newer one comes in, simply uncheck/check the cat box in admin to move it to its “thematic” category.
– This category might be excluded from being shown in the category list in the sidebar (if so desired)
– where now the ‘new paintings’ link is, there should be a one-time handcoded link to this cat called “new”

Would this help?

Does that mean you are changing the number of posts shown all the time? Isn’t there some kind of pattern, pre-set rule in place?

Yes, but (1) she doesn’t come up so often with new paintings; and (2) it takes half a minute to change in the options. It is certainly not straight forward as a procedure, but it is what I found 2 years ago!

– What if you make a category called “new”?
The most recent pictures posts would be posted to that category and, when a newer one comes in, simply uncheck/check the cat box in admin to move it to its “thematic” category.
– This category might be excluded from being shown in the category list in the sidebar (if so desired)

That might be a good idea… But in that case, would my static home page be called “index.php”? I’ll give it a try and come back later. Thanks for your time.

JP

But in that case, would my static home page be called “index.php”?

It depends. See the [[Template-Hierarchy]] link that I quoted already.
I mean it depends on the files that you have in the theme.
If you don’t have archive.php or category.php then the index is used for everything: displaying monthly and category listings, displaying serach result etc.
Having something hardcoded in it (and not enclosed in an if_statement) would mean to display the hardcoded part everywhere!

It works. There are some ajustments to be made, but over all it’s perfect. There might be other problems, in which case I’ll come back later, but as far as this thread is concerned it’s resolved… I thank you so much!

JP