Comments on: How To Make A Wordpress Page Your Home Page And Keep The Blog Posts

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:24:45 +0000

No problem – happy to help!

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:41:07 +0000

Dave! Thank you so much! I’ve wasted so much time trying to get my blog to work right and you fixed it right off! You are the man!

Thank you!

Frank

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:24:11 +0000

In Flexibility 3 there is a setting in the Theme Options which allows you to remove the Home Page tab from the menu – hope that helps!

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:10:10 +0000

Hi Frank – I don’t know this theme, but it might be that you have to select a posts Category for the posts that you want to see listed on the home page. This will be done in Themes Options if there are any, under Appearance inthe admin area. If this is not the problem then if you want you can use the contact form to send me your login details and I can take a look – Dave.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:00:48 +0000

Hello, I’m having a bit of a different problem, I hope you can help me! When I make posts they go to the recent posts box. They do not show up on my front page at all. I do have the setting for the front page to show latest posts set. (not set to show a static page) and I have it set to show the 10 latest posts.

I’m using Wordpress 3.0.3 and the Multiple Streams theme.

I’m losing my hair fast over this, I hope to hear from you! LOL

Thanks!

Frank

By: yeshamantha

yeshamantha — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 07:27:49 +0000

I just want to ask how to remove the other home. I have a double homepage. I follow your instructions but still the same I can’t get rid out of the home. thank you so much

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:51:15 +0000

Use the contact form to send me your login details as well as the page with the problem and I will take a look for you – not seen this before!!

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:39:51 +0000

Hi Dave, I am having a problem and I am sure you will be able to help me. I am very new to WP and I realy enjoyed reading your articles. here is the problem I am having, when I create a page and add items or pictures to it, the items and pictures shows up twice. How can I fix this. Thanks very much for your help on this.

By: [Blocked by CFC] Dave

[Blocked by CFC] Dave — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:05:30 +0000

Yep – this can be theme dependent and this may not work for all themes, although for most it should. Some themes may ned a different coding change to make it work. If you need help in the future let me know at the time and I will take a look…

By: Zoey

Zoey — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:38:09 +0000

Thanks Dave,
I was actually working on a sample website – followed your directions and
the only issue was that on the “blog” or page that featured the posts, the
page titles appearing in the header showed BOTH home pages. This only
happened on the page where the blog posts were featured.
I did end up going with another theme, but was wondering if this
was preventable. Without being able to show you an example I can
understand if you’re unable to respond. Regardless, your information
here is soooo very helpful! Thanks for providing the resources.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:05:47 +0000

Looked at your website – but could not see what you are talking about. Every theme is different, so I would have to take a look to help you…

By: Zoey

Zoey — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:44:42 +0000

Hi Dave,
This is a great tutorial. I actually downloaded the blue sensei theme so I could practice using the tips outlined above. Followed all the steps, and you’re right on target – easy to get rid of duplicate home pages. However, if you go from the home page, and click on the tab that says “Blog”, when you arrive on the blog page – both “Home” pages appear – meaning I show two tabs for “Home” when on the blog page. Does that mean that the CSS has to be modified in the page.php or possibly the singlepost.php? Thanks!!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:57:04 +0000

Dave,

Can’t believe I missed that.

You’re right, so easy!

Thank you.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:01:02 +0000

Kyle, not sure if this is what you mean, but there is no need for a code change in Flexibilty 3 to remove the original Home Page as you can switch off the Home Page tab from the menu by going to Appearance >> Flexibility 3 Theme Options >> Navigation tab and then changing “Navigation Home link display:” from Yes to No (= 3rd option down) and click on Save Changes – easy!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:57:11 +0000

Dave,

I’d be interested in any solution to removing the original Flex 3 “Home” tab.

I’ve completed the process successfully with other themes, but Flex has me stuck!

Thx,

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:25:05 +0000

Hi Trhonda, it’s hard to know what you did without seeing the code – so if you want some free help send me your admin login details and I will take a look for you…

By: Trhonda

Trhonda — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:08:42 +0000

Hi I’m using the Flexibility 3 theme and I followed your tutorial (great by the way). Not sure what I did wrong, but when going to edit the code, I did the steps as stated but the page still showed. Then I deleted the line out completely and the page still shows. I’m not sure if I was toying with the wrong line or what, but any help is greatly appreciated.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:45:03 +0000

@ George – One way is to have Wordpress located in a folder (such as /blog) on your website and the HTML page as the Home Page with links to your Blog – Alternatively, depending on exactly what you are trying to do, you can embed HTML code into your Home page in Wordpress – good luck!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:41:53 +0000

@ Lisa – Permalinks are a separate issue and nothing to do with what we are doing here, so no need to change your permalinks!

By: George

George — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:50:10 +0000

Hey Dave!

I understand how to set a static page (thks 4 your tutorial). But how can I have a static HTML page, not a wordpress page? I’d like to be able to use an HTML editor (like NVU), create a page, and use it for my static homepage. Is there an easy way to do this? Does it depend on the theme I’m using.

Thanks in advance,

George