April 19th, 2005
Your front page: Static, opt-in, or opt-out?
In resources — My collection of CMS driven WordPress plugins is expanding yet again, with a few new additions that change the default behavior of WordPress' front page:
- The static front page plugin (obsolete) will let you pin a post to the front page
- The opt-in front page plugin will let you add posts to your front page on an opt-in basis rather than remove them on an opt-out basis
Note that the opt-in front page plugin de-facto enables you to use WordPress as a multi-blog platform:
- Set the default category's slug to "blog"
- Create one category per user, or topic, whatever (your "blogs")
- At your option, use the front page to opt-in all posts from all blogs, or as a separate blog with the more important stuff only
Comments on Your front page: Static, opt-in, or opt-out?
5:26 am
There is a similar plug-in that is included on the Pages documentation page in the WordPress Codex.
It takes a different approach, you have to edit it and give it the ID of the page you want to make the Home page, but that potentially has other uses, too.
8:58 am
It's quite different, actually.
Ryan's plugin changes the WordPress params. From there, your front page answers to `is_page()` rather than `is_home()`, and uses page.php rather than `home.php`.
My plugin changes the WordPress query. From there, your front page answers to `is_home()` and uses `home.php`.
3:32 am
Hope you can make it work. This is the plugin that I've been looking for. Anyway, great plugin, thanks.
12:52 pm
I've uploaded a 1.1 version.
- The plugin now checks if the 'blog' cat exists and fallbacks to normal blog mode if it doesn't
- I've reengineered the code a little bit to make it play even better with static front off a Semiologic theme based web site
10:35 pm
Finally- I think this is exactly what I've been looking for.
_Edited_ — Problem solved
4:08 pm
A more general solution to the same problem here..
9:00 pm
Hey Denis!
I followed the instructions (what a novel concept!) and read the comments for further ideas (another cool concept!).
I want the comment form to magically appear on the 'home' page. I made a template from the page.php, named it home.php, and altho the comments_template() is there in the template, it doesn't show on the page. It does for all the other pages (I just checked) but not for the home.
Help?
9:31 pm
This comes from WordPress itself? `comments_template()` doesn't display comments on the front page in any event. I'm sure there's a hack somewhere on scriptygoddess, as I remember she's got a script to display comments from anywhere via a javascript.