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1. wrgood
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I am currently trying to design a full wordpress website. I have worked with many themes before and not had any trouble, but i feel i am running into a problem with this current layout.
   Normaly when designing a wordpress site, i create the site as a normal html site, then i create a link to the wordpress for "our blog". then i just create a template that matches the rest of the site, and it works pretty good.
   What i am looking to do for this current project is use wordpress to create a FULL page. i will create the pages in wordpress and everything will be wordpress. the problem i am running into is as follows:

   I want the front page of site to be one of the Pages i have designed. this works perfect and the page displays just as i want. The problem i am having is that i like the idea of listing the 5 (or whatever) most recent articles, so i have created a button on the top of the page called "our blog". i want this to link to what would normally be the front page (a list of the 5 most recent posts). I have looked through the codex and not found this, but i feel like this should be very easy to do (just not figuring it out myself). any help or links to articles that might cover this is much appreciated.

2. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Just using the static front page option offered by WordPress and setting Blog pages show at most to 5 would seem to get you there.

   See: Administration > Settings > Reading

3. wrgood
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I think i did not state my question clear enough. I want the main page to be a static page. i will just create a page and set it to that. I want to create a link that will go to a page that lists the 5 most recent posts. so essentialy i would like to use the static frontpage option (but not on the front page). hope that makes sense, if i need to be any clearer please just let me know.

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