Linking normally dynamic start page from static welcome page

  • I would like to have a static welcome page with a paragraph or three, and then a “Continue” button that moves the visitor into the rest of the site. The welcome page would be essentially a portal. I thought I could just modify index.php, call it home.php, then link the “continue” button to index.php. But it seems like WP will not allow index.php to load if there is a home.php. So… how can I create a welcome page?

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  • Two immediate choices:
    * pass a query string from your home.php’s “Continue” link to the index.php. WordPress will use home.php is no query is provided. So, simply provide a query of some sort.

    * use a plugin like Static Front Page to use one of your WordPress Pages as your portal page.

    Thread Starter jbn10161

    (@jbn10161)

    Thanks skippy. Some questions (to you and everyone else):

    1. I’m clueless in PHP, so, assuming I can figure out how to create a query string, what would I query?

    2. If I used Static Front Page, I would still have to provide a link from that page to the normal start of the site, wouldn’t I? Would there then be no problem in a regular anchor link to index.php?

    3. Are you aware of any problems with Static Front Page?

    Thanks much.

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