You can still have a custom homepage, the only requirement is that you use the template named "Weblog" to represent the homepage for your blog. So login, edit template "Weblog", and do whatever you want with it.
-- Allen On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 12:59, Sean Gilligan wrote: > I've noticed an issue (don't know whether to call it a change, bug, or > documentation discrepancy) in Roller 2.1. > > It seems you can no longer change the default "page" for your site from > Weblog.vm. It looks like this happened as part of the > "StandardizedTemplates" change: > http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Proposal_StandardizedTemplates > > This seems a step backwards in functionality because you can't have a > home page on your "website" that is not a Weblog page. It also requires > you to cut and paste between templates to make a "whole file" change > to your homepage. > > Regards, > > Sean > > > Documentation references: > > Section 4.1 (Weblog Settings): > Lists the "Page to be used as the homepage" setting (I put a ? here when > I submitted some edits recently) > > Section 5.1 (Weblog and day templates) of the manual says: > "Your weblog page is the main page of your web site, the one that is > specified as the default page in your Preferences:Settings page." >
