Use Wordpress blog as website's home page

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by webnutrition, Oct 24, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hello,
    I have a wordpress blog and I want to use it as the home page for a current website. The problem is that the current website's index page is index.htm and the wordpress blog's index page of course is index.php.

    I don't want to have the home page as index.php because I have a great deal of search engine ranking with the index.htm. Does anyone know a way to get around this so that if someone browses to http://www.mydomain.com they will be pointed to the wordpress blog, yet the index page will be index.htm?
     
    webnutrition, Oct 24, 2008 IP
  2. samsondelila

    samsondelila Peon

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    If you want, you can install WP on subfolder of your host, i.e named it "Blog" (www.yourdomain.com/blog"). By the way, all post made on your WP can be .html with change the Permalink Setting to /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%.html
     
    samsondelila, Oct 25, 2008 IP
  3. asterix

    asterix Well-Known Member

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    Read this :)
    scroll down to end of the page "Having your posts end in .html"
    h**p://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

    or you could use a static homepage too
    h**p://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
     
    asterix, Oct 25, 2008 IP