How can I stop a comment thingy showing on a front page?

  • Resolved Melpomene

    (@melpomene)


    11 years, 6 months ago

    This must be really straight forward, and it always amuses me slightly to read American’s discussing technical detail whilst we Brits grapple with basics!!! so in the finer traditions here is my simple request please

    All I want to do is set up a redirect front page to another site that’s working.

    I can put the banner image in (done) I can post some welcome text and link (done) but I just can’t stop this dialogue box displaying on the front page, or any of the traces that a blog thingy exists like ‘edit’ ‘leave reply’ or ‘post comment’. All I want the user to do is click on the link or otherwise.

    I’ve tried setting up the static image and it doesn’t work. The dialogue box still displays when I ‘view site’. All I’m trying to do is literally generate a single page to act as a redirect. I don’t want the user to have any inter-action with it other than a click.

    I’m not left wondering if I’ve downloaded something that simply doesn’t permit to do this and forces a dialogue/ blog type of thing on me? I say that because none of the ‘inspired them settings’ I’m used to are displaying when I downloaded this. The theme I’m using is a straight-forward twenty twelve (the steering wheel of a car?) if that helps?.

    I’m sure this is a 1 minute job for someone who knows what they’re doing please?

    thanks in anticipation

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  • You can create a new template for your redirect.

    Save this code as a new php page and upload to your active theme. Then create a new page, assign the template to the new page, add a link in the content area, and you are done. This will produce a blank page with a link.

    <?php
/*
Template Name: Redirect
*/
?>
<html>
<head>
<title><?php wp_title(); ?></title>
</head>
<?php
if( have_posts() ): while( have_posts() ): the_post();

the_content();

endwhile; endif;
?>
</body>
</html>
    Thread Starter Melpomene

    (@melpomene)

    Many thanks, that should do the trick

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