I have read many useful (and also some less useful) comments how to squeeze WordPress to work as a CMS.
I did not want to make any major changes to scripts that would be lost after an upgrade. I did not want to have extra plugins to change home (for example by creating an overriding home.cfm). I did not want to have any new categories. I did not want to change permalink structure. I still need my directory plugin to work, I still need the blog (some redirects even loose the blog address!) and I wanted to keep the RSS feed.
After several hours I came up with an very simple solution: Take a standard page and rename its title and slug to “Home” – assign a special “Home” template – redirect htaccess to this page. The only trick is to make the “Home” template work: it is basically a copy of the index.cfm in your WordPress theme directory where the line calling loop.php is being replaced with a slightly modifed loop code.
myblog.php
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/*
Template Name:MyBlog
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<div id="primary">
<?php query_posts('showposts=5'); ?>
<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); if(!($first_post == $post->ID)) : ?>
<div class="entry">
<div class="post-meta">
<h2 class="post-title" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php if(!is_single()) { ?><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><?php } else { the_title(); } ?></h2>
<p class="post-metadata"><?php the_time('l, F jS') ?><?php if(!get_option('tarski_hide_categories')) { ?> in <?php the_category(', '); ?><?php } ?><?php /* If there is more than one author, show author's name */ $count_users = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->usermeta WHERE `meta_key` = '" . $table_prefix . "user_level' AND `meta_value` > 1"); if ($count_users > 1) { ?> by <?php the_author_posts_link(); } ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No comments', '1 comment', '% comments', '', 'Comments closed'); ?><?php edit_post_link('Edit',' (',')'); ?></p>
</div>
<div class="post-content">
<?php the_content(' more »»»'); ?>
<p class="tagdata"><?php _e('Tags: '); UTW_ShowTagsForCurrentPost("commalist") ?> | <?php _e('Trackback: '); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>trackback/">link</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<?php endif; endwhile; ?>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
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