Comments on: WordPress: Using a custom home page

By: Darcel Cadle

Darcel Cadle — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:00:26 +0000

what very good go through.

By: Geoff Young

Geoff Young — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:42:23 +0000

Hey Jeff,
Can you put up or email me all the coding for home.php that you used in this example?
Thanks,
Geoff Young

By: Kornelije Sajler

Kornelije Sajler — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:39:06 +0000

Very interesting post, and very interesting override of index.php with home.php, thank you!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:25:24 +0000

Glad you found it useful, David. And thanks for posting your additions! Cheers.

By: David Rogers

David Rogers — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:25:41 +0000

Jeff, Thanks for the additional insight; I was attempting the same thing with my own template but couldn't get the paging correct. It's worthwhile to note that I had to use the following to get the posts to appear in WP 2.7.x:


if ( is_page('blog') ) query_posts(array( 'post_type' => 'post', 'pagename' => null, 'paged' => get_query_var('paged') ));

This removed the "pagename" and "post_type" parameter from the query AND (correctly) added the "paged" parameter to the query. Thanks again.

By: Jeff Gran

Jeff Gran — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:28:17 +0000

Hi David, thanks for the comment. It’s hard to tell what’s causing that without seeing how your template is set up. Are you using wp_list_pages() for the nav links? Is your home link also showing the blog post listing, same as the blog link? Have you set up home.php to be the home link?

By: david

david — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:17:27 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. Just one minor problem. When I click on Blog. My home link is displayed as “current_page_item” is CSS Style. IS there something I’m overlooking?

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By: JaneRadriges

JaneRadriges — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:03:29 +0000

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By: AndrewBoldman

AndrewBoldman — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:09:31 +0000

Hi, cool post. I have been wondering about this topic,so thanks for writing.