Keep flash Intro and use WordPress

Yes, look up “static front page” on this forum and you’ll find plenty of advice.

I’m looking for something similar, but that flash intro page can’t be the front/home page.

I’d prefer to not move the wordpress into a subdirectory.

So really, I would like to maintain the index.php in the root folder. Has anyone found a solution?

Actually it *could* still be the home page, depending on what exactly your flash intro does and how you need to present it. Couple options I can suggest for now:

1. Add a home.php to your theme. This will override index.php for the home or front page of your blog. There are some downsides to this, such as losing the top level blog/posts page just beyond the splash.

2. https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/68310#post-361092

This expands on the idea of using a home.php, but can let you retain some of what you might lose from 1.

The easiest solution I found was just to make an index.html and put it in the same directory as the WP installation. It automatically serves index.html before index.php.

In an earlier site I was working it this meant that clicking on “home” or the logo sent you to the index.html. And when you were writing a post/page, the “View>>” link would also come out wrong.

But now that I’m working on a new site, it doesn’t seem to be a problem. So that’s how I solved my problem.