Custom landing page in Worpress

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by sourabhkejriwal, Jun 15, 2013.

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    I have a wordpress blog. I need to use a different html page as the home page of the blog.
    Is this possible to have a html page as your homepage while the blog stills runs on wordpress.
     
    sourabhkejriwal, Jun 15, 2013 IP
  2. Keltichiro

    Keltichiro Member

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    Well, you could do a few things... You can install/move Wordpress into a subdirectory in your main website directory, and then link the blog to your index page.

    Or you could do something else since you're already running on Wordpress, check out the Codex below, it talks about how to create a static page and then use that instead... I know it's not QUITE what you're looking for, but as far as I know you can't technically use a separate HTML page that way... if there is, I hope someone else chimes in as well!

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
     
    Keltichiro, Jun 15, 2013 IP
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    paupownie Member

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    Yes, it is possible. All you need to do is create a new Page Template and upload it to your theme folder, and when you create your landing page on Wordpress, just select that new template on your page attributes.

    I created this video a few days ago for a client that wanted to add a landing page to his Wordpress blog, it just shows how to select the new template when creating the page
     
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    paupownie, Jun 15, 2013 IP
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    Yes you can. You need to create a new wordpress page and then put your html from editor and then link that custom page with your post.
     
    magentoxhtml, Jun 16, 2013 IP