Installation instructions (see also http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/home-page-control/ )

1. Download one of the files above and extract it. Then upload it into your WordPress plugins directory, and 
activate it under Plugins in the admin control panel.
2. Navigate to Options » Home-Page Control and choose which page you want to be the home page of your site (or go 
with the WordPress default), and choose the directory in which you want your blog's main page to appear.
3. (Optional but highly recommended): Navigate to Options » Permalinks and prepend to the custom Permalink 
structure 
the directory name that you chose above. That way, it will appear that the individual posts, categories, etc., 
reside in the same directory as the blog's main page.
4. Navigate to Options » Permalinks and press the button to update your Permalink structure. If your .htaccess file 
is not writable, you may need to copy and paste the Permalink structure into the .htaccess file. This step #4 is 
not necessary for WordPress 2.0.

Warning

Unlike most WordPress plugins, just deactivating Filosofo Home-Page Control in WordPress 1.5.x doesn't remove its 
effects, because it makes changes to the .htaccess file. I haven't had any problems, but in case something should 
go wrong, you should backup your .htaccess file or have some way to edit it. If you don't know how to create a file 
named .htaccess and upload it to your server or how to delete files from your server, then it's possible if 
something goes wrong you will not know what to do, so don't use this plugin.

For WordPress 2.0, the plugin does not make any changes to the .htaccess file, and all settings revert when the 
plugin is deactivated, so this warning and the un-installation instructions below don't apply.

Un-Installation Instructions (only for WordPress versions less than 2.0)

   1. De-activate the plugin under Plugins in the admin control panel.
   2. Navigate to Options » Permalinks and press the button to update your Permalink structure. If your .htaccess 
file is not writable, you may need to copy and paste the Permalink structure into the .htaccess file.

Worst Case Scenario Un-Installation Instructions (only for WordPress versions less than 2.0)

Let's say for some reason that Filosofo Home-Page Control messes up everything so badly that you can't even 
de-activate it under 'Plugins'; (I can't imagine how this could happen, but anyways . . . ). Here's what you should 
do:

   1. Delete the plugin from your wp-content/plugins directory. This will effectively de-activate it.
   2. Replace the .htaccess file with a blank file or with your backup. At this point, all of Home-Page Control's 
effects have been removed.
   3. Make the .htaccess file writable.
   4. Under the WordPress admin control panel, navigate to Options » Permalinks and press the button to update your 
Permalink structure. If your .htaccess file is not writable, you may need to copy and paste the Permalink structure 
into the .htaccess file.