Pages don't display HTML or CSS fields

[andrewheiss]

Pages (such as a custom front page, like the welcome page at http://pea.rs) do not display the content of the custom HTML or CSS fields because they don't use loop-single.php as their template.

Is there a way to force a page to use the loop-single.php template so we can have fancy front pages like the example pea.rs site? How do they do it?

[scotcrop]

The code that handles showing the HTML and CSS on posts could be added to loop-page.php as well.

[andrewheiss]

Is there a more WordPress-y way to handle that though, without duplicating the code on multiple templates? How's Dan doing it at http://pea.rs?

[scotcrop]

A lot of the template could be stripped. Pages will look for a few template file name variations and end up at page.php and then index.php, while posts do a similar search and end up at post.php and then index.php. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

You could probably get by with just having an index.php that handled everything. I don't think the Twenty Ten template Dan's using has been modified beyond a few parts but I don't think his goal was to make a brand new template from scratch as much as it was to quickly put something together to get the result he was after.

I think in the case of http://pea.rs it is possibly a hacked page of sorts that shows the intro content and is hardwired to work that way.

[annarobertson]

Any progress on this issue? Any idea how http://pea.rs was done?

[clupprich]

Any (good) solutions on that one? Anyone knows of a fork which solves that solution?