Make a Static Page your Home Page in WordPress
I’ve been doing a couple of sites for a Friend of mine who also happens to be my MMA instructor. RebelMMA and KenHealyFitness. They aren’t so much blogs as advertising websites. As a result I wanted to make the static pages jump out, whereas the blogging function should be hidden a little further into the site. I still wanted to use WordPress though as it’s already running on my server. So I had a dig around and found it was actually easy to move the blog away from the front page. Now on those sites when you vist them you get a static front page and you have to navigate to the blog.
Check out the steps on the WordPress site.
Yeah, took me a bit of figuring out too, it’s not immediately obvious…
Very handy though.
Any idea how to get it so that http://www.site.com goes to the static page and blog.site.com goes to the blog?
I don’t know of any clean way. You could create a page called blog.site.com and embed a redirect in it to the blog page.
I’ve something similar done for mail.johnoriordan.ie