vanburen

Well, according to my experiments, you are both right…sort of.

You can rename between .htm and .php without a problem, but going from an HTML file to the index.php file is futile. WordPress will regenerate the code and rewrite the file each time it builds. So your original HTML will be replaced on the first re-build of the site.

I have had some success in renaming php files to html and using them as static pages. There does not seem to be any problem with doing this.

In summary, I think the answer to my question is this: there is no way to call “the loop” from within an html page. Anything I wanted to have appear on the HTML page has to be done through template modifications–so that WP can build the index.php page dynamically.

I’ve had some luck accomplishing this wth template modifications. It just means getting more deeply into the templates than I wanted.

Thanks for all your comments.

Thanks to both of you for this thread.
My site is a combination of static and dynamic pages, so it’s good to know both methods.

Thank you. This was resolved.

Hi, I was very interested to read this thread. I did something different, but don’t know if I did the right thing. I used the “View Source” command in my browser to copy the code of one of my page.php pages and turn it into an HTML file. I loaded that index.htm file to the server.

I assume that your method keeps all connections to the template (sidebar text, archives, etc.) where my method completely disconnects those things. Is that correct? Any other differences between these methods?

thanks

jerry,
Are you willing to share your flickr code with the rest of us? I am trying to get this into my site as well and would appreciate any help.

thanks

Thanks. Yes, I just experimented with installing several times on the same site and that seems to be working out. Each one has its own dashboard and login.

The single blog limit is a real drag. But I’m very happy with the other features.

Thanks for the reply.
Maybe I’m not understanding, but I don’t need a multiple user version, I just need multiple blogs. One user, several blogs on the same site. Nothing more than what you get with the hosted version of blogger.com.