static front page – that is changable by wordpress

What do you mean by “exempt the title”? And what about using a home.php temnplate?

Thanks for the reply moshu.

Are you saying to just change the htaccess to go to home.php instead of index.php?

I would like to be able to leave the title and date and author off of some entries, but have them on pages. In other words, to be able to edit the “about” page via wordpress, but the about page NOT show the title or extra info – only the body.

Hmm. Maybe I can just create a custom php file for each page that does not use a title.

Er. No wait, that won’t work, because wordpress creates random page #s. Maybe I can just link to those? Hmm. That doesn’t work.

I am getting more and more confused…
For home.php you don’t need any .htaccess trickery. (just read the Codex about the Template_Hierarchy).
When you say “pages” are you referring to the Pages feature of WP or just talking about webpages in general?

You can always edit The_Loop to include or delete different template tags, e.g. the_title. Though I am not really sure what do you want to achieve.

The Pages feature of WP.

Basically I want this to happen: I want a front page that is absent of title, author, etc – all save the body. However, I would like people to be able to change this from within WordPress. I assume this would be best done with the Pages faeture of WordPress.

So, when they type in the web address it would go straight to this front page.

Furthermore, I would like to have similar “about” and “contact” Pages, also editable but without the title, author, etc.

Finally, of course, your run of the mill blog with all the standard formatting and so on.

does that make sense?

thanks again for the help moshu. much obliged.

This might do the trick: is there a way to call specific posts or Pages?

OK, one more question: if you have a titleless thing on the mainpage of the blog (!) what is the “run of the mill blog” and where does it appear? How do you get from that mainpage to the “blog”?

I’d go in this way:
1. Create a home.php template and use in it only this plugin https://guff.szub.net/2005/01/27/get-a-post/ – and no Loop!
(the plugin lets you display only the content, no title)
2. Create one or more Page template (see the Codex Pages#Page_Templates) to display your About and other Pages as you want
3. For displaying the monthly or category view you can use the classic index.php – or have the proper templates installed in your theme.

fantastic. I think that’ll do it. I’ll give it a shot tomorrow.

thanks for all your help moshu.

superultra
you can posted the link for see how it work?
thanks