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Okay, the host tells me that it looks like WordPress was downloaded again? Which I didn’t do. Could it be something to do with my .htaccess files? Or perhaps my site was hacked?

Ah yes, our site is held through our Plesk Server. I’ll try reaching out to them to see what the problem could be. Argh… ??

P.S. No Backup ??

UPDATE: I have managed to do so by adding this to the .htaccess file:

# Provide Specific Index Page (Set the default handler)
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

The only downside is I now can’t view the index.php site, but this will work for now, at least.

This worked perfectly, however now the main URL shows the index.php from URL/wordpress that I was trying to keep hidden because i’m still working on it. Any chance I can create a rewrite rule to display another ‘landing page’ such as index.html (not .php)? The current holding page was index.html in the main root folder, but that now no longer shows.

Yes, this is what I am trying to do. I will read through that now, thank you!

Great, I will give these a go – thank you!

Thank you for your response. I created my own theme from scratch. I’ll perhaps try installing one of the one page themes though and see how they’re calling everything. That might answer my question. I just presumed it was a simple call tag such as “get_…”, but I guess not. Thanks anyway!

Here’s a page full of them;

https://athemes.com/collections/best-one-page-wordpress-themes/

So I know it is possible.

I already have all the content in and can confidently say that it does NOT take a long time to load. There is very little content to the website; only about 4 or 5 pages with very little images.

I am very familiar with website design and development and user experience, but am just new to WordPress. Modern websites are using this structure more and more for their websites, so i’d be very surprised if WordPress isn’t setup this way.