kingmoore

Hello Sachi, I was referred to your post by a moderator. I am having a similar problem, but didn’t realize it from the title of your post.

I have my blog set up as my main website, but I want the home page to be different than the rest of the blog… well in the same framework but have a bit different functionality.

i want the home page to have functionality i specify in home.php but I also want to be able to link to the blog as you would normally see it. like you i am a bit frustrated that there is no link to a page that is the normal index page before i created my custom home page.

your idea of linking to archive/2006 is a good one. I hadn’t though of that. the only problem is I will have to manually change thing links come Jan 07, and then my 06 posts wont be easily available to the user.

another solution i thought of was to have one category called posts or something like that and put all my categories in there. that may work.

this really seems like wordpress should have a default URL you can point to like wordpress/all_posts or wordpress_index that will provide the default view even if you have created your own home.php page.

hmmm that is a pain. thanks for the link.

That’s what I am doing. How do create a link to what the home page would normally look like? (IE I have a home.php that overwrote what was being displayed as my home page, but I still want to be able to link to the old home page but don’t know what URL to link to)

Thanks.

So all I have to do, if I am reading this correctly, is make a file called home.php in my template dir and it will be used as the home page and my page.php will be used for the other pages?

thanks I will look into these