Splash Page vs Index.php

  • gamerscircle

    (@gamerscircle)


    10 years ago

    Hi all – I thought I had a pretty simple task and perhaps it is. I am just at a loss at how I can do this.

    By default, most WP pages use index.php [making an assumption here], what I would like to, is to replace the current index.php for https://andy.gamerscrcle.com with this: https://andy.gamerscircle.com/index3.php

    Now, I know I can do that and my task is done, but I don’t want to loose the blog. The new index.php aka [https://andy.gamerscircle.com/index3.php] is just a real simple splash page and on that, it a graphic that I would like to link back to the blog, but I am at a loose on how to do this correctly so nothing in the WP dBase is pointing incorrectly
    Andy.

    Thanks

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  • catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    You can create a new file you your theme (using a child theme, of course) called front-page.php. In this file you can copy & paste everything form index.php and edit it to look ho wyou want it too. The way it owrks is that WordPress will look for that file first for the home page and use it if it exists, and if it doesn’t exist it will fall back trhough the template hierarchy until it finds a template file that it can use.

    If you want to use a different look on a page somewhere else in the site you can create a custom template file pretty much the same way, and that will let you use that template on any page on your site.

    Thread Starter gamerscircle

    (@gamerscircle)

    What I ended up doing was copying the wp folder to a new folder for a new sub-domain and have the splash page where the original sub-domain was and not I can link to the blog.

    I had to go into WP and make sure that the permalink got saved though.

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