Front page displays one post only

  • I have a WP 3 Multisite set up, main site + eventually 7 subsites.

    All sites in the network are private.

    The spec required is that each of the sub-sites will have only one page, being a post and comments. It just needs to be a one post site, nothing else, so there is no need for top level menu wp_list_pages etc.

    So far I have

    – replicated the main sites theme, removed the menu calls to list pages etc, network activated it and assigned it to one of the subblogs which I hope to make te blog template for the remaining six sub-sites.

    – gone into the sub- site’s Dashboard > Settings -> Reading -> I have tried all poss variants of setting “front page displays” latest post, static page, post whatever. No luck.

    The simplest approach it seems would be to just rename the default “Hello World” post and have that appear as the front page.

    Can anyone point me in the direction of a wp function or plugin that would achieve that.

    My forum search results on this problem so far all are fairly old and relate to quite old versions of (standalone) WP.

    Thx for any info.

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  • Thread Starter flipdeluxe

    (@flipdeluxe)

    I should be more clear – the site needs to be just a single post and comments on it, all visible as soon as page loads. No links to anywhere else, just the post + comments.

    Hope that clarifies a bit.

    replicated the main sites theme, removed the menu calls to list pages etc, network activated it and assigned it to one of the subblogs which I hope to make te blog template for the remaining six sub-sites

    Here – I think – you’ve granted the subblog permission to use your modified theme. That’s necessary, but not enough.

    gone into the sub- site’s Dashboard > Settings -> Reading -> I have tried all poss variants of setting “front page displays” latest post, static page, post whatever. No luck

    Could it be that you just need to go to the subblog’s Appearance menu and tell it to use the modified theme? You don’t mention that…

    I should be more clear – the site needs to be just a single post and comments on it, all visible as soon as page loads. No links to anywhere else, just the post + comments.

    You can only set Pages on the front, not posts. So write a Page in the backend with the content you want, then go to into the sub- site’s Dashboard > Settings -> Reading -> and set that Page to be the home page.

    Thread Starter flipdeluxe

    (@flipdeluxe)

    Thanks Andrea, my experience confirms everything you said.

    I am looking at perhaps a redirection plugin as a last resort. So set the static front page, then have it redirect to the post page.

    Cheers and beers.

    Why redirect? Put the *post* content in a Page. Page templates can show comments too.

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