Look at the dashboard, settings, readings. You can select what page opens first. You do not have to change any files.
I have set my home page as my first static page and added a link to a blog page (busy reading google & other forum posts ) Now have posts showing but no forward next buttons etc & no posting box
do I post another question about these ?
Hi TonyaOD,
If I am not wrong are you looking for this kind of page.
http://www.abode-valley-avoa.org/blog-spot/
This page is a separate blog page used to display all the posts at one page with excerpt. For this you will need to create a custom page template. you can create something like this:
<?
/* Template Name: Blog Page Template */
?>
<?php
/**
* The template for displaying all pages.
*
* This is the template that displays all pages by default.
* Please note that this is the WordPress construct of pages
* and that other 'pages' on your WordPress site will use a
* different template.
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Ten
* @since Twenty Ten 1.0
*/
get_header(); ?>
<div id="container">
<div id="content" role="main">
<?php
/* Run the loop to output the page.
* If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
* called loop-page.php and that will be used instead.
*/
get_template_part( 'loop', 'page' );
?>
<div id="allevents" class="bloglatestposts">
<?php if (function_exists('yg_recentposts')) { ?>
<ul>
<?php
$parameters = array(
'limit' => 20, //Number of posts to show
'excerpt' => 200, //excerpt length (letters)
'afterexcerpt' => '...',
'afterexcerptlink' => 1,
'separator' => '<br /><br />',
'actcat' => false, //get posts current category
'cats' => '12,13,14,15,16,17', //Categories to get posts
'cusfield' => 'thumbnail', //custom field name of thumbnail image
'w' => 110, //width
'h' => 110, //height
'firstimage' => true, //get first image of post content
'showauthor' => 1,
'showtime' => 1,
'format' => 'M d,Y',
'spot' => 'spot2',
'atimage' => false, //get first attached image of post
'defimage' => 'http://localhost/abode/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/calendar.png', //default thumbnail image
);
yg_recentposts($parameters);
?>
</ul>
<?php } ?>
</div>
</div><!-- #content -->
</div><!-- #container -->
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
@HRanjan: That won’t work. Its theme-specific and contains references to custom function.
@tonyaod: Have you tried switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems? How many posts-per-page have you configured in Settings -> Reading? How many posts have you published?
thanks for the heads up. I looked for some help on creating a template & worked through it until i had what i wanted
link to easy adaptable wordpress loop template tutorial
this was great – i added a few extras like category filter but it now works fine