WP help, I want to make the ‘home page’ a ‘single’

[travisneilson]

Hey everyone,
Is there a way to make the home page of my wordpress site resolve to my single.php template? I would like it to really be the single.php and to include the permalink the in the address bar.

Maybe some type of forwarding?

[Chris Coyier]

Make a special page template like page-home.php. Then make it exactly the same as your single.php file. Then publish a page from the Admin called "Homepage" using your new template. Then set that page to be your homepage in Settings > Reading.

[travisneilson]

Thanks Chris!

Using this method, would a guest who got a link to my url http://www.site.com find that it is now suddenly http://www.site.com/singleposturl/

http://www.site.com/singleposturl/ being the most recent post permalink …

That is really what I am aiming for.

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