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How to Display a Page as the Frontpage with Wordpress (prior to v2.1 )
Wordpress August 21st, 2007
Visited 265 times, 1 so far todayBefore reading this article please note that you must be using Wordpress versions prior to v2.1 otherwise this method will not work.
You will need to use the Wordpress plugin “Static FrontPage” (http://www.semiologic.com/projects/static-front/), which will allow you to display any Page as the “front page” of your site. Simply download the zip file and upload its contents into your plugins folder, i.e.: yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins then, activate the plugin in your site’s admin area.
You will need to manually create a static page called “home”. The plugin will apply a Page slug of “home” to the front page.
When the Page is displayed on the front Page, if a Page Template with the filename home.php exists for your current theme, the plugin will ignore the page created and use home.php instead. However, the page’s created will still work if that page is visited by typing the URL in the browser like http://example.com/home/
The above method is not needed in versions 2.1+. You can easily use the settings in the control panel to set your static home page. Read this tutorial.
