matphoto

Alright since it didn’t happen in other browsers and I knew firefox was better than that, I finally narrowed it down to being the google toolbar plugin for firefox, which made the flash occur only when different permalinks were used for whatever reason. Just in case anyone has the same issue.

@room339

Thanks! That worked perfectly.

Ok, but just for clarification, according to that, simply making a home.php would be another way to go about it since the home.php template isn’t used for anything other than the homepage.

I’m creating a template as well and am in a similar situation. I want the homepage to have static content and recent post summaries, and right now I have it as index.php. After reading through some of the docs I dont know whether this should be the case or if I should rename it and use the admin panel to declare it as the new home page. I’ve seen themes that do this with index.php as the homepage though.

Home.php seems like the obvious filename solution however, but I haven’t been able to find out what exactly home.php is used for. If it exists does wp call it automatically, thus bypassing using the admin panel to set a custom-named home page?

thanks, been trying to figure that out myself. I had to take out the .php to get it to work for me though.