The "static" pages in evo settings aren't what you think and have been removed from 3.x and replaced with caching.

Without knowing your evo version it's a smidge hard to provide the best solution, but this should work

1) create a post that you wish to be your intro page
2) make a note of the posts ID and then crack open index.php || stub.php ( depending on which you use ) and add the following to the very top of the file :

<?php
if( empty( $_GET ) && empty( $_POST ) )
{
  $p = 123; // replace 123 with the post ID
}
?>

¥

Sorry, it's 2.4.7
Thanks for the help

Sorry to be thick, here, but I want to do the same thing on my version of 2.4.7. I have got into index.php and am making the changes you mention, but what do you mean by the post's ID - is that to do with it's category, Internet address or neither?

Thanks in advance by the way.

In admin, if you hover over the posts edit or publish or delete link you'll see the url read something like "........&p=####&.....' the #### is the ID of the post, just put that number in place of 123 ;)

¥

No, I've found the number you mentioned, but when I try to alter the index.php file, I am told that the changes can't be saved because it is a read only file (despite the fact that "read only" wasn't ticked in "Properties" when I looked there).

"where" tells you that it's read only?

¥

I right clicked on "index.php" from the list of files extracted from the download, then went to "properties" and at the bottom of that screen there was a greyed out area which included the term "Read only" - the tick box was empty.

By default, b2evolution "locks" php files from being edited. MUCH better than unlocking that file type is to use an editor on your local computer, then upload the changed file.

^-- what he said .... but far more concisely and encompassing :D

¥

Morning both - nope, I used an editor like you said to amend the wording and then uploaded it to replace the existing file, but the page I want as my "home" page is still not showing.

I think I may have made a mistake in the way I worded things - the top of the index.php file now reads;

<?php
if( empty( $_GET ) && empty( $_POST ) )
{
$p = 28; //}
?>

Have I misinterpreted what you told me to do?

Ok, the only mistake I can see with that code is the fact that you've commented out ( // ) the closing brace ( } ). It needs to read like this :

<?php
if( empty( $_GET ) && empty( $_POST ) )
{
$p = 28; // <-- this means "start of comment" so anything you put after it ( on the same line ) will be ignored ;)
}
?> 

Could you possibly post a link to the blog that you're trying to get this working on ?

¥

I've pasted in the text exactly as you worded it, but it's still not working.

My blog is at

http://ezelesek.com/b2evolution/blog1.php

I am trying to get what I have done under the category "welcome" to be what appears at the top of the blog every time someone logs on.

@¥åßßå: could this not be accomplished by setting the blog URL for the default blog on index to be the post's permalink page? Untested - just thinking. Thinking that if _GET and _POST have *anything* then the condition is not met so the if is bypassed.

Hey wait a minute. Maybe index.php isn't the right place for that. The thing is the URL posted goes to blog1.php which is a stub file, which I'm pretty sure means index.php is not even called. Not that going directly to index.php does any different so that's not on track to a solution.

Perhaps that snippet of code needs to go into /skins/yourskin/index.main.php (and maybe posts.main.php if it exists)? You might have to precede it with global $_GET, $_POST; meaning like this:

<?php 
global $_GET, $_POST;
if( empty( $_GET ) && empty( $_POST ) )
{
$p = 28; // <-- this means "start of a single line of comment" ;)
}
?>

Thanks Ed, I'll give that a go today.