I want to do almost exactly this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#A_Page_of_Posts
But Im confused by the last line:
Save this to pageofposts.php and then assign PageofPosts as the
Template when creating the action Page:
How do I tell WordPress to go to index.php, (or anything else) when, for example, it receives an ‘events’ slug?
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