Revolution Pro Media

The theme I’m using for this blog is Brian Gardner’s Revolution Pro Media for Wordpress.

I find it highly customisable.

The theme comes with a magazine splash page and while I tried that for a while I like the traditional style blog look - which is also a little less fiddly to manage.

How to have a blog page as the home page in Rev Pro

Well there’s a hard way and an easy way. :)

The hard way - which is how I’ve done it is to change the code using FTP.

Rename the home page (home_original) just in case you want to go back to the magazine style.

Then copy page_blog.php and rename the copy - home.php - adjusting the number of posts you want to show…

This is the bit you look for in the code to change the number of posts:

The blog page template is currently set to show 10 posts. Change showposts=10 to whatever number of posts you want to display.

< ?php $page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts("showposts=10
&paged=$page"); while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>

The easy way I discovered through Mike Bowen - thanks Mike.

In Admin, click on Settings, Reading, Select the radio button “A static page, and then select the blog template from the pull down. Once saved, your blog becomes your home page.

Much easier!

Here are my original notes on the design - written when I had the Magazine splash page up.

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