Comments on: Your front page: Static, opt-in, or opt-out?

By: Denis de Bernardy

Denis de Bernardy — Thu, 26 May 2005 21:31:24 +0000

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.

By: PaulaO

PaulaO — Thu, 26 May 2005 21:00:56 +0000

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?

By: Stefano

Stefano — Sat, 14 May 2005 16:08:53 +0000

A more general solution to the same problem here..

By: Catonya

Catonya — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:35:52 +0000

Finally- I think this is exactly what I've been looking for.

_Edited_ — Problem solved

By: Denis de Bernardy

Denis de Bernardy — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:52:20 +0000

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

By: Kates

Kates — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:32:00 +0000

Hope you can make it work. This is the plugin that I've been looking for. Anyway, great plugin, thanks.

By: Denis de Bernardy

Denis de Bernardy — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:58:40 +0000

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`.

By: Alderete

Alderete — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 05:26:36 +0000

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.