Different Homepage while keeping site in WP

  • I’m not sure how I’m going to explain this, but I’ll give it a shot because I really want to put my entire site into WP.

    I have a homepage: https://www.steinruckdesign.com that has nothing to do with the blog.

    I have the journal: https://www.steinruckdesign.com/journal/ that is the homepage of the blog.

    My goal is to put all the sections, About, Resume, Work, etc into a WP template so that the whole site is driven by WordPress.

    I’ve figured out from some helpful posts how to put my index.php page into the root directory and keep all the WP files in the /journal directory. But the problem is that I can’t figure out a way to keep my current homepage (without the blog stuff) and make the blog address still be /journal.

    In the template system, index.php obviously has special meaning as “Home” especially when using the ‘_is’ functions.

    Can anybody help me out here? Am I missing something completely or is this just not an option?

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  • And for a further example. ?? of a 3>2 column switch. But you could use home for the static and index for the blog. But all would be WP. It will run without the loop but you will get the header on load which is handy.

    @ sirguich. On tutorials. The thing with this type of stuff is that your overall plan of how the blog is going to work is the most important thing. All the tutorials contain- lets call them- ingredients. You need to produce the recipe. In theme dev there are normally many ways to do the same thing.

    Hi there,

    this is exactly what i would also like to do with my site, but i have read through all these posts and i still dont get it- any further docs elsewhere that explain for the really slow people on creating you site in WP, and creating you blog as a subpage and not the index page?

    thanks!
    sha

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