I have a static html coming soon page inside a folder.
How to temporary set the wordpress homepage point to this html template folder?
How to temporary set all of the wordpress page point to this html template folder?
The easiers way is to use a wordpress plugin for a coming soon page that support html code and post your code there, why to make a hack to display everywhere an html page in a wordpress site when you can do it with a simple plugin?
If you put this line at the top of the .htaccess file:
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
It will swap the order in which Apache prioritises the files.
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my website using wordpress template and I want to edit the homepage but I can't find the source file of the homepage...i go to chrome - view source but can't find the index.php that has the source code of the homepage
how to find the file of the source code of the homepage
its depending on the file used by author. by the way, most of the themes have, home.php
front-page.php
index.php
otherwise, we can create a custom page in wp-admin and assign it as home page or front page to a wordpress, that will be configured on the settings page.
Go through it.
Start here https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development to learn how WordPress themes are designed and coded.
I just set up a wp theme featuring a front-page.php.
When I point my browser to http://mydomain.com/ the front-page.php is loaded. That's ok.
But... which URL will now trigger the index.php template?
Thank you in advance for your feedback.
Matteo
index.php is the main file for the theme. It contains the code for the Main Area (below header & above footer) and will specify where the other files will be included.
Your site may be loading front-page.php because you may have set static page in your settings to be shown as home page.
Acording to wordpress official doc:
index.php
The main template. If your Theme provides its own templates, index.php must be present.
front-page.php
The front page template, it is only used if you use a static front page.
home.php
The home page template, which is the front page by default. If you use a static front page this is the template for the page with the latest posts.
See this Link for more details on wordpress template hierarchy: WordPress Codex « Theme Development « Template File List
Having said that, mention your site URL in question and may be I can help you more.
I have WordPress installed in my main directory for my website and not in /wordpress. Currently my htaccess file has in it DirectoryIndex index2.html. This points to a static html page that was my landing page before installing wordpress. Now, when I visit my site after having installed WordPress I am still presented with the same landing page as before. What do I need to change to make sure that going to my domain will now point to the PHP pages of WordPress instead of my old html content? The site is on a shared Window hosting plan if that makes any difference
Make sure that you do not have an index.html file in your root WP directory. index.html files have precedence over the index.php files. That explains why the landing page is loading even when you navigate to a subpage of the site.
Just comment this line or change it to
DirectoryIndex index.php
I'm creating my own WordPress theme and I've set it up locally with MAMP. It all works fine and the theme appears when I enter localhost/wordpress in my browser. But when I enter localhost/wordpress/wp-content/themes/mysitename it is just a white blank page.
In the WordPress dashboard under themes the image next to my theme where it lets you activate it is also blank.
How can I get it to appear? Thanks in advance!
WordPress uses a frontend controller system where all site traffic passes through the index.php file in the root of the site.
Directing your browser to "localhost/wordpress/wp-content/themes/mysitename" bypasses the main controller, which means you are bypassing WordPress altogether and attempting to directly access files on the server. That directory would need to have an index.html or index.php file within it to produce some kind of output.
In order to have an image beside your custom theme in the admin, you need to create a screenshot of your theme and name it "screenshot" (can be a jpg or png) and place it in the root folder of your theme. Look inside other WP theme folders for an example of what I am talking about.
ive created an enter page for wordpress and what im wondering is how do i put it as the index page when the index page has the code to load wordpress? how and where do i place the enter page? thanks
There's setting in wordpress admin page which doesn't involve manual setting in .htaccess.
Besides the fact that splash pages are so very wrong... (the only defensible exception I can think of is for an adults only site that asks you if you are 18 or older), you could set it up as index.html and ensure your .htaccess has
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
Things that you could do ...
Put the splash page on /index.html and put wordpress in /site/ (or something else innocuous); put a redirect on /index.html -> /site/ after the splash is done.
Put the splash page as a page named 'Splash' in Wordpress, with its own template. In the Reading settings page, set the 'Front Page' as 'Splash'. Redirect to the index page after the splash is done.
Put the splash page as a page named 'Splash' in Wordpress, with its own template. Modify index.php in your theme to check for a cookie -- if the cookie isn't present, load the Splash page instead of processing the Wordpress Loop. Once the splash page is done, set the cookie and redirect to the index page.
A route that's worked for me is to bypass the WordPress core files and do everything from your theme folder. So, for example, in your theme folder (WEBROOT/wp-content/themes/YOURTHEMEFOLDER) add a home.php file, and in that file, add whatever code you'd like to use for that first page. By default, WordPress looks for a file named home.php, if it finds it, it will use it first, if it doesn't find it, it will use the index.php next. Since you'd like to use both, it will use home.php for your home page / site default page & then every other page can use the index.php page.
Also, there's other template files that WordPress will look towards before it displays the index.php page - for a detailed list / illustration of this go to http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy & scroll down a little.