Is this possible?
You could have a static home page and a blog page simultaneously. You can have a Page in the form http://www.domain.com/my-first-page/. But not a post. Posts are always filed under categories and/or date.
So, are you saying I can do this?
http://www.domain.com/index.php – Static Homepage
http://www.domain.com/blog/ – Blog
http://www.domain.com/category/my-blog-post/ – Blog Post
How would this work? Would I need to Add a page in WordPress with the URL /blog/ and then make a template to pull in the blog posts?
So, are you saying I can do this?
Yes
Would I need to Add a page in WordPress with the URL /blog/ and then make a template to pull in the blog posts?
No. Simply make a Page called Blog and another with whatever title you want to give to your static Home page. Then navigate to Settings/Reading. Under “Front page displays”, check “static page” and choose your new Home page from the Front page dropdown. Next, choose your Blog page from the Posts page dropdown.
Okay…
So I make a page called ‘Blog’ and the url is /blog/
I make another page called ‘Home Page’ and the url is /home/
Then am I able to make wordpress redirect /home/ to the root?
Also, will all blog posts be filed like this?
/blog/category/post-title/
Or, can it be like this?
/category/post-title/
Thanks
Setting the page called ‘Home Page’ as your static front page will automatically set up the re-direct.
will all blog posts be filed like this?
/blog/category/post-title/
No – they will still be filed in their appropriate category.
Okay, thanks. I will try this out before I try to apply it to my live site.
