You are currently editing the page that shows your latest posts.

I hate this addition.. Often our clients like to have custom text on the “main” blog page, and the “blog” PAGE is the perfect place for this. Now you can’t do this out of the box.

Really starting to hate WordPress lately.. Anyhow, heres a fix if you’re interested.. Add this to your theme functions.php, or create a plugin with this code:

if( ! function_exists('fix_no_editor_on_posts_page'))
{
	/**
	 * Add the wp-editor back into WordPress after it was removed in 4.2.2.
	 *
	 * @param $post
	 * @return void
	 */
	function fix_no_editor_on_posts_page($post)
	{
		if($post->ID != get_option('page_for_posts'))
			return;

		remove_action('edit_form_after_title', '_wp_posts_page_notice');
		add_post_type_support('page', 'editor');
	}
	add_action('edit_form_after_title', 'fix_no_editor_on_posts_page', 0);
}

Hello,
I’m so confused by this update!
Thank you for providing a solution. First I added your code to the functions file but it didn’t change.Then I installed your plugin and yes the content area reappears but no content or blog posts show on the page and the layout doesn’t show either…
The page is pw protected. Please logon to see the blog:
developer
1212lTa1313

http://adoptforlife.wpengine.com/blog-test/

Any ideas?

I pasted your code into the functions.php – it got rid of the message “You are currently editing the page that shows your latest posts.”
BUT the is NO VISUAL EDITOR, no place to write the post.

This is an older hand built WP site, so I have far too many plugins, but will add yours if I need to.

Why is wordpress not on this. This website (www.marinediscoverycenter.org) has several blogs – some dedicated to restoration, others to marine mammal stranding, etc – so, I have set up the “blog-rolls” in the appearance>menus and depending on what category the post is, that is the page it will show on.

Please assist – I thank you!

Thank you crgeary for the code , I used the code and got back my wp editor but the (publish button) replaced with (submit for review button)? so please share if you have any Idea to solve this issue . . thank you again

crgeary,
Your plugin lets us edit the Blog page but the posts still aren’t being shown on the page.

I also don’t have a selection of blog-test to set the page for posts as.

This stuff is getting way beyond my menial tech abilities.

@crgeary thanks for the code it work for me

@beormalte

please start a new topic. http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post

what theme are you using?

generally, as the blog page will be using the template home.php or index.php, it will not show the content of the page itself.

depending on your theme, you will need to edit the corresponding template (in a child theme) and add a few lines of code.