You should be able to merely create a page with your custom template and then select it as your “static” front page. Just leave the posts page option blank if this page displays your posts anyways.
The default order of posts is date descending. To reverse it for home page you could hook into pre_get_posts and for is_home() query set order parameter to ASC. Note that that pages would still go from 1 ascending, they will just have posts on them in opposite order. I don’t think actually reversing order of … Read more
This is perfectly normal. When you set a page as front page WordPress thinks that you want to use the home url for it. Said that, the url for your calientes page will be your home url (http://domain.com). Now, front pages are not intened to use pagination, so if you put /page/{number} on a fron … Read more
Follow instruction for Creating a Static Front Page in Codex. The URL of your blog posts index will be derived from a page you use for “posts page”.
Bit hard to understand exactly what you want to do as the grammar isn’t the best but i assume you want to return false for your Adsense widgets (using the code you linked to) when random posts thumbnail” plugin executes? You could add a check for the function your random posts thumbnail plugin uses so … Read more
For WordPress to automatically use home.php to render your home page you have to set Settings > Reading > Home Page Displays to “Your latest posts” With that option set WordPress looks to use home.php first, and then index.php (in that order) to output your home page. Read more here.
The easiest way to achieve this would be to use a custom post type. This way, these posts won’t show up as custom post types by default are excluded from the main query. You can just then create your page and create a custom query with WP_Query to pull in this 9 posts 1. CREATE … Read more
Are you sure your rewrite rules are actually being saved? How are you calling this function to setup the rewrite rules? Action? What about flushing rewrite rules, are you flushing them anywhere in your project? Disable all of your plugins and test to make sure one isn’t flushing rewrite rules on every page load. As … Read more
if it is “a very complex theme,” then there’s probably some hook into template_redirect malfunctioning. as @TomJNowell mentioned, using home.php or front-page.php should allow you to override page.php, but that’s not always preferred (I rarely use them myself), and will not necessarily fix the problem. you don’t need to assign a blog page in order … Read more
If the Home page is set to be a static page like you have, I think that the posts page is supposed to be a different page. http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Reading_Screen You can display your recent posts on front-page.php with WP Query, though: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query Here’s a mostly inclusive starter code, followed by the loop. It’s copied from a … Read more