Turbocharged

Do you have a blog but hate writing online? If you do, you’re not alone. Let’s crack one of the secrets to producing more content in less time.

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Here’s a quick tip for those of you who are planning to move your blog to a new Web host, a different address, or a different domain name. Of course, these instructions apply whether you’re using the vanilla WordPress, as well as for Turbocharged users. (more…)

Hang on to your hats, because this is not a HOWTO-style post. This is a tribute to one of my readers.

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If you want a static home page in your WordPress blog, trust me, you’re not alone. I’ve been looking for a solution to this all my life. All solutions I found had problems.

So I invented a new technique. This technique just requires you to drop a file into your theme folder. It uses no kludges, doesn’t mess with the WordPress internals, and lets you use WordPress as a true CMS with a regular front page. It will also save you from editing your theme — at the very most, you may want to place a link to the blog in your theme, but that’s not even required.

Since WordPress 2.1, there’s an option in the Reading options panel that lets you select a static page as the front page. It’s quite useful, but this technique is more flexible, and a variation of this technique can be used to redirect to a static page, for example.

The home page problem

So what’s the home page problem?

It’s simple. I want both a blog and a home page, running on WordPress. To the effect, I create a static page, which serves as the “home page”. But that’s not enough. For a true home page:

• People who visit your site’s main URL should be greeted by the designated static home page.
• People who want to read the blog entries should be able to. It’s okay if the blog entries list is to be read through a separate URL.

Read on to find what’s wrong with currently available solutions.

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