How to customize the wordpress home page?

CMS & WordPress
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Hi

I am new to wordpress and i’m creating a site using wordpress 3.1(latest)

You can see the mock up page here :: VEEJATA ::

And i’ve changed the index.php as


    <?php
    get_header();  //edited the old header.php
    
    //get_template_part( 'loop', 'index' );
    ?>
    
    <div class="flt_left"> 
    	//dummy welcome text .. And i want this text should be editable through wordpress admin panel
    </div>
    <div class="flt_left">
    	//dummy latest post.. and i want to list the last 2 post but i want to edit the style only for home page.. 
    </div>
    
    <?php get_sidebar(); ?> // changed the original sidebar.php with my content
    <?php get_advt(); ?> // created a new file under my theme
    <?php get_footer(); ?> // edited the old footer.php

Now i want to know how to create a custom page or block and how can i include them in the index.page…

Can we have a page or block for the dummy welcome text in the admin page where he can edit the content so that the home page content changes…

I can include the contents in php file and use like get_advt() but instead of editing php file i want to let my admin edit the content from admin panel much alike for pages in wordpress…

Is that possible if yes then how to create and include them?

2

You can:

  1. create your own template page (take a look at Pages « WordPress Codex)
  2. create a page using admin panel
  3. use created template for that page
  4. in admin panel choose that page as the first page
    and now you can customize as you want :slight_smile:
3

You can have the dummy text you are talking about, you will probably want to look at Theme Development « WordPress Codex and probably [url=http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus]Administration Menus « WordPress Codex to do this part.