static home page

  • I am currently using the ComicPress theme with my WordPress site. I would like the home page of my site to NOT be the newest comic I posted. I know I can check a preference to make it not do that, and I can set a widget to show the newest comic post (and/or newest blog post) as a thumbnail in the sidebar. But then the center of the home page is just blank.

    What I WANT is for the home page to display a constant static image, like a cover graphic, and I would also like to display a link on the home page to the FIRST page of the comic. My problem is:

    1) I can’t figure out how to upload something to the home page unless it’s a post, and
    2) I can’t figure out how to get a first page nav link to display where there isn’t a comic page showing

    I previously asked this same question in the ComicPress Forum and here is the response I was given:

    “create a home.php file the way you want it to look and plop it into your child theme / parent theme whatever you’re using”

    Unfortunately this presumes PHP knowledge that I do not possess. I do not know how to “create a home.php file” and I do not know how to “plop” it into a theme.

    If you could direct me to someplace where I could find information on how to do these things, or better yet advise me of a simpler way to achieve my goals, I would deeply appreciate it, thanks.

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  • You can create the page you want to display under the “Pages” section. Once it is created, go to Settings >> Reading and select the “static page” option and your newly created page from the drop down list.

    just make a page called whatever you want your home page to be, through the WP page editor, adding whatever content you want.

    then make a page called blog, or posts, or whatever you want you blog/posts page to be called

    go to settings->reading

    set front page displays static front page

    from dropdowns, select the appropriate pages you just made for your static front page and your posts page

    Thread Starter johncomic

    (@johncomic)

    Thanks, the above suggestions have cleared up most of my problems. However, I still can’t see how to add a link to the first page onto this new static home page — what am I missing?

    Thread Starter johncomic

    (@johncomic)

    Maybe I should clarify: I can add a link but I don’t know how to make it appear as a standard nav button that looks the same as the nav links on the comic posts. I thought it would be nice if I could maintain that visual consistency?

    Can you provide a link?

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