move home page & replace it

[tjd]

Hi, So I finally upgraded to Genesis 2.1.2 from 1.9.2…I was overly cautious I discovered. So after expecting a mild coronary which didn’t occur, I dove into my site again. Understand please that even tho I’ve had this site up for about 4 years, I resist getting into anything re: code other than css. That said, I just put my site on a major diet, removing pages, simplifying the one’s remaining, dropping the upper nav menu…it’s been a lot of fun. But now I have an idea and I need some guidance:

I’m considering moving my Home page which now holds all my training videos and some from TED, and building a new Home Page. I’ve spent the last few days looking at my initial Genesis settings, which I still hardly understand and I don’t see what is it that makes the current Home Page, the Page that a visitor automatically lands on. If anyone has gotten this far, thanx and if you can give me a clue or 2, I will feed a homeless cat in your name.

http://tomjdolan.com

[Tony @ AlphaBlossom]

Hello,

You can control which page is your home page in your WordPress admin, under "Settings > Reading". You can create a page for Home, and a page for Blog and assign them as your static pages.

If you want to create a custom home page template, you would create a front-page.php file for that (your theme may already have one). To create a template for your blog, use home.php.

Here's a great article that explains more thoroughly:

http://www.billerickson.net/dont-use-genesis-blog-template/

Hope that helps!

Tony

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Tony Eppright | http://www.AlphaBlossom.com | Follow me on twitter @_alphablossom

[tjd]

Hi Tony,

Great suggestion and yes it did clear things up for me. Since the upgrade, I’ve been re-invigorated to exam the site and I’ve discovered, much to my distress, a severe case of ‘tunnel-vision’ on my part. I’ve been less clear than I thought I was being with Menu’s and logic. Seems I’ve been making the site for me, not my visitors. Thanx for the article and too, your interest.

Tom

[Tony @ AlphaBlossom]

Hey Tom,

Glad to be of help! I completely understand...recently did a complete redesign of my website, also realizing that I designed it based on what I liked, not what my visitors want to see. It's so easy to get that "tunnel-vision" but glad we figured it out now instead of later 🙂

Have a great night!

Tony

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