Title: Editing Posts page
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Editing Posts page

 *  [HSP-VW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hsp-vw/)
 * (@hsp-vw)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-page/)
 * So I set up a blog page on my site, added elements & design etc. but when I go
   to reading> to set the page as a static posts page, all elements disappear (yet
   are still viewable and there on the edit page)
 * Would be really handy to have a way round this so I can insert recent post elements
   onto other pages, to take my to the blog page.

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 *  [mojowill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mojowill/)
 * (@mojowill)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-page/#post-6455321)
 * When you set a page as your posts page in the reading settings it it works a 
   little differently. Pages generally use page.php as the template which shows 
   your page content, however when you set the page as your Blog posts page WordPress
   looks for a different template, usually the one responsible for archives and 
   the data sent to the template is the recent posts and not the page content.
 * Take a look at home template hierarchy works to understand it better.
 * [https://developer.wordpress.org/files/2014/10/template-hierarchy.png](https://developer.wordpress.org/files/2014/10/template-hierarchy.png)
 * In some themes they will provide a special page template for this page which 
   may allow you to include the content you enter into your Editor window and still
   render your recent posts but his on a theme by theme basis.
 *  Thread Starter [HSP-VW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hsp-vw/)
 * (@hsp-vw)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-page/#post-6455323)
 * [http://www.hampshiresignsandplastics.co.uk/dev15/hsp-blog](http://www.hampshiresignsandplastics.co.uk/dev15/hsp-blog)
 * Above is the link to the said blog page. I want to be able to keep it as it is,
   rather than changing to the plain template.
 *  Thread Starter [HSP-VW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hsp-vw/)
 * (@hsp-vw)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-page/#post-6455324)
 * The theme I am using is salient.
 *  [mojowill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mojowill/)
 * (@mojowill)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-page/#post-6455325)
 * As it is a Premium theme I would suggest you contact the theme author for support
   with this issue
 * >  If you use a commercial theme or plugin and need support, please go to their
   > official support channel. In order to be good stewards of the WordPress community,
   > and encourage innovation and progress, we feel it’s important to direct people
   > to those official locations. Doing this will provide the developer with the
   > income they need to make WordPress awesome.
   > Forum volunteers are also not given access to commercial products, so they 
   > would not know why your commercial theme or plugin is not working properly.
   > This is one other reason why volunteers forward you to the commercial product’s
   > vendors. The vendors are responsible for supporting their commercial product.

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 * [elements](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/elements/)
 * [posts page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/posts-page/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [mojowill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mojowill/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-page/#post-6455325)
 * Status: not resolved

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