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1. 

   perryb
   Member

   Hello all,

   This is my first of what I imagine will be many queries about the excellent Thematic theme on this forum.

   I am trying to build a child theme with a static homepage using only functions.php and style.css.

   I have worked out how to test if the front page is up (using is_front_page) and to add extra content, plug in output and so on. I have also learned elsewhere on this forum how to switch off the sidebar for this page.

   The thing is I'm not having much luck with the post content.

   Ideally I would like a clean slate on the home/front page so I can position post content using my own divs to my liking: ie no static page post or sidebar.

   I know I could create my own front page template to achieve this easily enough but I decided that I wanted to do it the hard way ;)

   I like the idea of keeping all the layout in functions.php to make it easier to upgrade in future.

   Thanks
   Perry

   Posted 9 years ago #
2. 

   Chris
   Moderator

   Hi Perry,

   could you please give me an idea how this new markup should look like?!

   Chris

   Posted 9 years ago #
3. 

   perryb
   Member

   Hi there - I'll try and make this as brief as possible ;)

   I have set up Wordpress so the home page is static and the blog is on an "internal" page (using the General Settings/Reading options in the admin dashboard).

   Now, looking at the page.php template in the Thematic theme folder I want to be able to remove the static page post content that appears between <?php get_sidebar('page-top') ?> and <?php get_sidebar('page-bottom') ?>

   (As an aside, what do these two bits of code do in page.php? It seems counter intuitive to me that a call for the sidebar appears before and after the main content and before <?php thematic_sidebar() ?>)

   I then would like to insert my own divs and includes in any layout I choose. I want to do this using only functions.php and style.css in my child theme folder.

   Is that possible or am I just better off creating a custom homepage template (which would be simple enough to do)?

   I hope that is clear.

   I am standing in the foothills of the PHP learning curve mountain so I apologise if my jargon is incorrect.

   All the Best
   Perry

   Posted 9 years ago #

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