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  • I just started using WordPress today. On my old site, each page was broken into sections. Like a page called “In My Mind” was my main blog, while “Film Reviews” was another page.
    The problem I quickly noticed is that I cannot keep blogs on one page from showing up on the Home page, and I can’t keep putting new posts on it. It shows all my posts on the home. The only way I can separate them is using categories, but then whats the purpose of having the pages? It just looks all messy.

    So how can I keep a blog on each individual page? And keep the home page solely for news updates?

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  • Most WP bloggers set their home page to show excerpts of their posts, and the title(also the Read More…)is linked to full post.

    You could also make your home page more static, as in it won’t automatically show all your posts or even excerpts, but rather whatever you decide to put on it. Then you could have category links to your categories, and/or a page that shows all your posts or excerpts linked to the posts.

    Short answer, you can set it up any way you want to work, you only need to learn the php that WP uses to make it all work dynamically. It’s mostly functions or blocks that you add to your page templates to tell wp what to load for that page. That way it’s done automatically every time you make a post.

    Once you set it up the way you want, all you have to do is post, and the rest is done for through the php.

    It’s hard to get your head around if you’re used to hard coding static pages, but extremely more efficient and powerful than static pages.

    Although you still have the option of static pages if you want to code every page for every post every time you post.

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