how do i put a wordpress page as my main page

kala85

I am setting up a page based on wordpress.
How do I set up the website so that the site opens up with the wordpress page as its main page instead of having it like site.com/wordpress

dunworth1

ok this is pretty easy

create a new .php document

copy and paste this code

<?php

Header( "Location: http://address&quot; );

?>

replace the word address with the address of the wordpress page eg www.yoursite.com/wordpress

save the .php file as index

upload this file in the main directory of you site
now when you enter www.youraddress.com it will auto redirect to the wordpress

kala85

when people click on the links then will it come up www.site.com/wordpress/news say for the news instead of having www.site.com/news which is what I would prefer.

noshankus

Very hard to say without actually seeing how it is set up.

But try this by moving all files under your /wordpress/ folder to the same level as /wordpress/
i.e. was:
wordpress/news
now:
wordpress/
news/

If any of the files contain directory specific links including wordpress, they will have to be manually changed.

A simple test is to create the news/ folder in the same level as wordpress and put in a file called hello.txt just containing the word "Hello" and then try to access it:
www.site.com/news/hello.txt

Abelloid

Under General Settings change the Site address (URL).

Abelloid

Actually there's more to it if using a blog as your main page -

http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory