Using WordPress as main web page . . .

Not sure if there is an easier way to do this, but sounds like you need to change your installation a bit. You could install WordPress to your main directory or in other words your top level domain. Then you will need to copy the content of your static pages into WordPress using the “Pages” section of the admin.

If you want your homepage to be a static page, then go into the Settings->Reading and set Home Page: to the page you want as your home page.

You might want to create a page called “blog” and set that as your Blog Posts page on the same page where you set your Home Page.

This should create the same setup as you currently have but with the theme you want on your “static” pages. (Although you will no longer really have/need the html versions of the static pages…and you would edit them within WordPress after doing the above.)

The Settings> Reading doesn’t mention anything about setting pages. It just shows how many posts, items, and whether of not I want full, or summary text, and the character encoding.

Hmm, it should have a “Front page displays” section where you can choose either “Latest Posts” or “A Static Page” and then choose which page. It should be the first section of settings.

Now it’s there. I think it wasn’t before because I didn’t have a page to select. Great! Now I’ll have to figure out how to implement your instructions.

Thanks so much for your help. ??