Sep

21

Testing EzStatic Plugin for Static WordPress Pages

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Testing one page in the root directory, a plain page named ezstatic.php with no templating, style or tags.

Test Page

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Exactly what it did, is save the file in the root directory (which is robots.txt excluded) as ezstatic.php with a query string. It did not also get saved in the CMS and WordPress archives (which causes a situation with duplicates).

http://www.marciahoo.com/archives/category/cms-and-blogs/wordpress/

Even though it was uploaded as a plain HTML page, the style from the template was applied. For those pages, the plugin that switches the site name with the post title, putting the title first for the page, doesn’t work. It seems only to work with the dated archives.

There’s a limit to what should be dumped into a root directory, so the next thing to try will be to repeat, using the same file but putting it into a /subdirectory/. Ideally, it would be good to have the index.php page in a /subdirectory/ as just an index with a bit of text and links to other pages within the section.

First this will get experimented with a bit until it’s right, and then the mod_rewrite.