I just realized that I did not have a “blog” tab in my navigation. Silly oversight, so I added it. I also remember searching long and hard for the code to put in a blog page if I wanted to use my Wordpress site as a “static site” with a homepage other than a traditional blog layout. Possibly a simple thing for folks who are used to coding the night away, but not for us light coders.
I am documenting my process here so I will know where to find it in the future.
- Create a file in notebook (or your favorite text editor) called “blog.php” and upload it to your Wordpress theme folder. It should contain the this text:
- Create a page in Wordpress, call it “Blog”, “News”, whatever you want. Do not put any text in the text editor.
- Select “Blog” in the Page Template drop-down options.
- Hit save and you should be good to go.
I discovered that you cannot do this if you have a free blog on yoursite.wordpress.com. It only works if you have your blog hosted somewhere.
Tags: blog, static site, wordpress
Just in case someone else sees this and doesn’t know — you need to add <?php to the beginning.
Thanks for posting this though, it was driving me crazy, too!
Thanks for catching that, I had the code copied in correctly but my editor cut it. I modified the post to have a link to the text file instead.
good job,
howdy… the text file you provided in this entry doesn’t appear to be there anymore?
It is there now, sorry about that, I moved my site and missed the link! In WP now all you have to do it go to:
Settings=>Reading=> an select the page you want for your home and the page you want for your posts. Easy!