Title: Adding posts to template Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Adding posts to template * [Maracas1970](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maracas1970/) * (@maracas1970) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/) * Hi * My site _ [http://www.gotodesigns.co.uk/](http://www.gotodesigns.co.uk/) * Having some issues trying to get the posts loop working, i have a static front page that has no loop on it, i only want my posts to appear on the blog page, i have put the loop on this page in the blog.php i created, but cant get the posts to show up. I have tried the changing front page to static and selecting the template page for my blog page in the settings reading section in admin panel, but each time i do that it just links to my homepage. * I have created one post, i haven’t created any categories so it goes in uncategorized. Is there some code i`m missing to pull posts into the page, or do i maybe need to create a template for my posts page? * I`ll do a paste of my current blog posts page markup to see if i`m missing the obvious, quite likely.. * [http://pastebin.com/Kh26PbLe](http://pastebin.com/Kh26PbLe) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 18 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/page/2/?output_format=md) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/#post-2436518) * Your main posts page will use the index.php template file. * Thread Starter [Maracas1970](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maracas1970/) * (@maracas1970) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/#post-2436520) * So the loop needs to be there as opposed to the blog page itself?Sorry my head is going sideways with this, i`m on day three of trying to figure it out.. And if it is the case, i dont want posts on my homepage, because as you`ll see it is a welcome/splash page with no content, if i do put the loop here wont it show up as a link to a non existent post on my frontpage? * Thanks * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/#post-2436534) * See [creating a static front page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page) * Thread Starter [Maracas1970](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maracas1970/) * (@maracas1970) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/#post-2436544) * OK * So i have got a post to show up and it takes me to a version of my homepage, with the banner etc, but i want it to not include that.I intend the blog page to be like the internal pages, without the large homepage banner. * Also i added the on the homepage to try and remove the traces of the loop, but it made the post disappear from the blogpage. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/#post-2436546) * Stop messing with template files! Set up a static front page and a main posts page using the default page template first. * Thread Starter [Maracas1970](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maracas1970/) * (@maracas1970) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/#post-2436552) * I`ve done that though in the settings/reading section. * I added two new pages one for blog one for home in admin/pages/add new. I called one home, and selected home from the drop down list. * Then i selected the page for my posts to go on, which i entitled Articles (i selected my blog.php template on the drop down page attribute when creating this page). There is a copy of the loop on my template file for the blog.php and my index.php (homepage). * Now artifacts from the loop are on my homepage and my blog posts appear on another version of my homepage.. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/#post-2436554) * > i selected my blog.php template on the drop down page attribute when creating > this page * Don’t! It will not help in any way. As I said above, the main posts page uses the theme’s index.php template file. Full stop. No exceptions. * Your front page should now be using the default page template, yes? * Thread Starter [Maracas1970](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maracas1970/) * (@maracas1970) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/#post-2436555) * Yes it is, i changed back to default the blog page i created (articles) in the create new page, now all posts have dissapeared. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/#post-2436557) * The blog page will now be using the index.php template file, so it is this file that you need to investigate. * Thread Starter [Maracas1970](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maracas1970/) * (@maracas1970) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/#post-2436562) * OK thanks i appreciate the help really i do. * Investigations are usually spurred along by clues, and as you no doubt are realizing i dont have one! * As you can see by looking at the two pages, my homepage references “home” now and the blog page references “blog” The pages “loop” back on themselves.. * “I think” I need to change some parameter within the loop on the index.php for it to pull the posts to the blog page, just not sure which parameter. * regards * Maracas * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/#post-2436564) * No – forget about blog.php. Delete it from the theme. You need to add a basic loop to index.php if it doesn’t have one already. * Thread Starter [Maracas1970](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maracas1970/) * (@maracas1970) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/#post-2436567) * There is a loop on the index page, i can assure you of that. * You see my homepage is different from my internal pages as it`s a template i coded myself, this may be where the misunderstanding is occurring. So if i delete the blog.php it will not be there in my navigation. * So if i select the page after deleting blog.php will it still turn up in the nav, or will i have to change the link structure again to reflect the changes? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/#post-2436568) * > So if i delete the blog.php it will not be there in my navigation. * It shouldn’t be there. A template file should **never** be referenced directly on the front end of a site. Perhaps you need to review [Theme Development](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development)? * Thread Starter [Maracas1970](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maracas1970/) * (@maracas1970) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/#post-2436569) * The method i have used is purely to create each page in HTML/CSS. Then chop it up, and take out the header, footer content etc and turned them into individual php files along with a stylesheet and a resources folder. And that is basically my theme. * I then created a page for each within WordPress and used the attributes section on each page to link up my navigation? * This is totally wrong then? * Regards * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-template/#post-2436570) * > This is totally wrong then? * Yep. You need to create your pages **within** WordPress. And read up on how themes& their templates work. 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