How to make a category page the blog home page?

Question

I want to use a category page as the home page of my blog. Is that possible and how can I do it? It tried it with a .htacces rewrite rule but that didn't worked.

Answer 1

Category page can't be home page (just doesn't work like that).

There are two other options:

1. Limit home page to posts from specific category (close but not the same thing).
2. Redirect home page to actual category page.

Since you seem fine with redirect try following. Create home.php template in your theme directory with following content:

<?php
wp_redirect( 'http://www.yoursite.com/category/category-slug' );
?>

There is probably some more tidy way to do this with hooks, but nothing I can think of right now.

Answer 2

The most semantic way to do this instead of using a redirect (extra connection time) is to create a custom page template.

new page:

/* Template Name: New Homepage by Cat */

<?php query_posts('cat_id'=>'3');?>
<--insert loop-->

Answer 3

just add a category filter into your index.php query in your template. simples