Use first post as start-page in WordPress

Is there an easy way to redirect the user to the first post when they go to the开发者_运维问答 WordPress installation's main URL... Like, if the user goes to domain.com, they will be redirected to domain.com/title-of-the-first-post..

After a few days of trying and failing, I was able to construct the following solution:

Add the following code to your header.php-file, located in wp-content/themes/nameOfTheme. Make sure there is no space or enter before the opening

<?php
if(is_home()) {
    $recentPosts = new WP_Query();
    $recentPosts->query('showposts=1');
    while ($recentPosts->have_posts()) : $recentPosts->the_post();
    wp_redirect(get_permalink(), 301);
    endwhile;
}
?>

Chris Holmes answer of doing a redirect is a good one.

If htaccess is not an option, or you want to do it within WordPress, you can add simple logic to index.php using is_home_page(), and wp_redirect(). http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_home http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_redirect

If you are not really looking to program a solution, I imagine this is a good question for https://superuser.com/ Maybe, you are looking for http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

Use your .htaccess file and do a redirect