Custom Home Page Image

  • Resolved christofino

    (@christofino)


    15 years, 9 months ago

    Hello, I have set up my site and am happy with it, however, based on feedback, I’d like to add a customized home page – that is, a simple page that does not look like the other pages in my theme. Is this possible? Sort of like a splash page without flash.
    For instance, could I create an off-white background with four links (words) in the center of the screen, and then clicking on whichever words would take you to the appropriate page? If this is possible, how could I add an image as a background? Thanks!

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  • You can do it in WP using a custom page template, but it sounds like you’d be just as well to build a straight HTML page that contains 4 links to pages on your WP site.

    As to image background, check out CSS “background “

    body { background: #fff url(images/mybackground.jpg) no-repeat; top center }

    Thread Starter christofino

    (@christofino)

    Thanks!!! I did use the custom page template (which I named hompage.php) and it seems to have worked perfectly.
    If anyone else who is as clueless as myself wants to do something similar:
    <?php
    /*
    Template Name: Homepage
    */
    ?>

    <style type=”text/css”>
    body { background: #fff url(images/mybackground.jpg) no-repeat; top center }

    </style>
    and personalize from there!

    hi
    im trying to insert an image on my homepage but keep the navigation/header the same. that is– not create it as a post bc i dont want it to appear in my widget post list. i think i need to create a new page template but i cant seem to make it static.
    help?
    my site is kmessing.com/wordpress

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