http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
In addition to a static front page, the codex page linked above explains how to make another page a blog page.
Thank you, that gets me part-way there. I’ve got the pages created, and the “blog” page is displaying my most recent posts. However, the Next and Prev buttons at the bottom of the page don’t work. Rather than take me to next page of posts, it displays the same posts, but with “&paged=2” at the end of the URL. Any ideas?
Sounds like your theme’s index.php template file may have a faulty custom query.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts
Okay, I read through that and double-checked my query, which is:
<? query_posts( ‘cat=-8378, -8381’ );?>
It was working fine before I added the static page at the front.
<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts( 'cat=-8378, -8381&paged=' . $paged );?>
Oh my goodness, truly you ARE a diva!
(Er, I mean that in the good way.)
Thank you!
