I recently started working with WP 2.1.2 and am trying to understand how to get the effect that this plug-in used to provide. I'd like a semi-static page (with some summaries of recent posts) as the index page for my domain, and then a /blog directory to hold the blog. The article in the Codex about static homepages doesn't describe how to achieve this with 2.1.2 -- do you know where I can look for a description of how to do this?
Thanks (and thanks for your work on the plug-in, which, if I understand correctly, now enables the feature in 2.1.2?)
Create a page, give it the slug "blog," then select it in the "posts page" drop-down menu under Options > Discussion. Choose your home page in the "front page" drop-down menu.
I've done that, thanks (the 'front page' and 'posts page' options are under Options>Reading -- there's a good explanation at: http://tinyurl.com/2rwmv2). I see that it makes the navigation work, but am still trying to figure out how to get some dynamic content to the home page. I'd like the home page to show the most recent post from a couple of categories. (Perhaps setting a 'static' home page isn't the right solution? I'd like a homepage that shows a lot of static content next to these two posts, and to have a seperate area at url/blog for the full blog.)
I'm experimenting with Scott Reilly's Customizable Post Listings plug-in, and so far, it looks like that will add the functionality to the homepage that I'm looking for...
After upgrading to WordPress 2.1.3 i tried to make use of the new WordPress integrated functions to get the same results as provided with your plugin.
Some problems:
If I tell my system to use both, a home page as well as a blog start page, my blog page will always be rejected to the home page. So I created two pages but used the options menu only to assign a home page. The blog URL is automatically found by the (page) post slug than.
This works but doesnt support the Pagebar Plugin (doesnt work on pages) so that I had to exchange this against the standard navigation. Within categories or archieves I can still make use of the Pagebar Plugin.
Another problem is that tagging doesn`t work anymore for pages, only for blog posts. No matter if you make use of Jeromes Keywords Plugin or the Simple Tagging Plugin. I tested both of them.
And last but not least Technorati works only if you ping them manually. They seem to make a search on home otherwise but do not scan new blog posts automatically.
Are there any fixed rules for permalinks to be respected with WordPress 2.1.3?
Currently I have all posts and pages within my root directory. Only blog archives and blog categories are assigned to my blog directory.
The permalink structure I use worked fine with your Filosofo Home-Page Control Plugin:
(Unfortunately pages end up with a trailing slash while blog posts end up with .html. But this is not a big problem for me. May be for WordPress rewrite rules it is?)
I don`t want my static pages to show up within the blog directory.
Any idea what to do so that everything works again without your plugin?
Hopefully I do not have to change all my URLs to make it work. Currently I believe I have to put the blog on a subdomain to avoid problems with upcoming upgrades by using a clean blog version.
Your plugin worked beautiful for me. May be the integrated CMS features of WordPress 2.1 can not completely replace it by now?
Hi,
I recently started working with WP 2.1.2 and am trying to understand how to get the effect that this plug-in used to provide. I'd like a semi-static page (with some summaries of recent posts) as the index page for my domain, and then a /blog directory to hold the blog. The article in the Codex about static homepages doesn't describe how to achieve this with 2.1.2 -- do you know where I can look for a description of how to do this?
Thanks (and thanks for your work on the plug-in, which, if I understand correctly, now enables the feature in 2.1.2?)
Create a page, give it the slug "blog," then select it in the "posts page" drop-down menu under Options > Discussion. Choose your home page in the "front page" drop-down menu.
I've done that, thanks (the 'front page' and 'posts page' options are under Options>Reading -- there's a good explanation at: http://tinyurl.com/2rwmv2). I see that it makes the navigation work, but am still trying to figure out how to get some dynamic content to the home page. I'd like the home page to show the most recent post from a couple of categories. (Perhaps setting a 'static' home page isn't the right solution? I'd like a homepage that shows a lot of static content next to these two posts, and to have a seperate area at url/blog for the full blog.)
Thanks again for your help.
Steve
I'm experimenting with Scott Reilly's Customizable Post Listings plug-in, and so far, it looks like that will add the functionality to the homepage that I'm looking for...
http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/08/27/plugin-customizable-post-listings/
After upgrading to WordPress 2.1.3 i tried to make use of the new WordPress integrated functions to get the same results as provided with your plugin.
Some problems:
If I tell my system to use both, a home page as well as a blog start page, my blog page will always be rejected to the home page. So I created two pages but used the options menu only to assign a home page. The blog URL is automatically found by the (page) post slug than.
This works but doesn
t support the Pagebar Plugin (doesnt work on pages) so that I had to exchange this against the standard navigation. Within categories or archieves I can still make use of the Pagebar Plugin.Another problem is that tagging doesn`t work anymore for pages, only for blog posts. No matter if you make use of Jeromes Keywords Plugin or the Simple Tagging Plugin. I tested both of them.
And last but not least Technorati works only if you ping them manually. They seem to make a search on home otherwise but do not scan new blog posts automatically.
Are there any fixed rules for permalinks to be respected with WordPress 2.1.3?
Currently I have all posts and pages within my root directory. Only blog archives and blog categories are assigned to my blog directory.
The permalink structure I use worked fine with your Filosofo Home-Page Control Plugin:
Links: /marketing-blog-%post_id%-%postname%.html
Category Base: /marketing-blog
(Unfortunately pages end up with a trailing slash while blog posts end up with .html. But this is not a big problem for me. May be for WordPress rewrite rules it is?)
I don`t want my static pages to show up within the blog directory.
Any idea what to do so that everything works again without your plugin?
Hopefully I do not have to change all my URLs to make it work. Currently I believe I have to put the blog on a subdomain to avoid problems with upcoming upgrades by using a clean blog version.
Your plugin worked beautiful for me. May be the integrated CMS features of WordPress 2.1 can not completely replace it by now?
Have you tried using it with WordPress 2.1.3, then? It should work, as far as I know.
I`ll give it a try tomorrow. Thanks! ;-)
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