bobhof

Hi all, I have moved the site to https://www.keiskamma.org/health. Have a look.

Okay! I think I have a solution. It’s not perfect, but it has the desired effect:

I changed my root index.php file to the following:

<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);

if ($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] == ‘/news/’) {
$_GET[‘page_id’] = ‘2’;
}

require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
?>

I also deactivated static home page plugin. Now, https://health.keiskamma.org/news/ links to whichever page I choose (in the example above it is page 2), and https://health.keiskamma.org/news/index.php links to the first page of my blog. Woohoo!

I found this neat solution on https://www.alexking.org/blog/2005/03/23/wordpress-hacking/

Thanks for the help chaps!

Chaps, it’s late here so I’m going to sleep on this one. Thanks for all your suggestions. Let me know if you have any other ideas. ‘Night.

It’s important to note that my top menu is not static. It is set to display my wordpress Pages as well as a link to the blog. The functionality I am looking for is basically that the first time a visitor arrives at the site (https://www.health.keiskamma.org/news/), https://www.health.keiskamma.org/news/?page_id=2 loads instead. But if they click on the “Blog” link in my menu (which also has to be https://www.health.keiskamma.org/news/) they then see the blog. If there were just another URI that links to the main blog page it would be easy.

Thanks Andrea. I tried that but then how can I make home.php display one of my Pages (eg page_id=2)? And even if I manage that, I will then be unable to link to the blog since any links to https://www.health.keiskamma.org/news/ will just retrieve my home.php page. Any other ideas?

I tried that originally. I edited the .htaccess file so links to health.keiskamma.org/news were directed to another page “home.html”. Unfortunately, that would require that my wordpress Pages are all static so the top menu will function and I need the Pages to be editable through wordpress admin.

If I try to make the default page dynamic (eg a copy of index.php renamed home.php) I am back to the original problem: it just displays the blog immediately. It’s a perfect catch 22 ??

Thanks again for your help. I’ve been going round in circles for days now.

I could link my blog button in the top menu to https://www.health.keiskamma.org/news/?cat=1.

It’s still not ideal though. https://www.health.keiskamma.org/news/?cat=1 links to “Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category”. “Blog” in this instance is a category I set up. It’s not the same as the default front page most blogs show. For example, the ‘login’ and ‘links’ lists in the right column are not visible and “You are currently browsing the archives for the Blog category” appears under the search field. Also, the page only displays posts in the “blog” category so uncategorized posts wont appear. It is the best solution I have seen so far though. Thanks very much for your help!

Thanks. But I have just activated Static Front Page and now your link goes to the Home page I created, so I have no way of linking to the blog. Semiologic (makers of Static Front Page plugin) recommend the following:

FAQ: I want a static front page and a normal blog
Use the static front page plugin normally
Create a category called ‘Blog’, make it the default category, and put every post in it
Link to the ‘Blog’ category in your navigation menu

But it’s a messy workaround and then I always have a category called ‘blog’ in my right nav bar. Any ideas?