First you’d need to create custom page template that showed posts:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#A_Page_of_Posts
Then you’d need to set this new page as your front page:
http://quirm.net/2009/06/12/setting-up-a-static-wordpress-home-page/
If I understand what you want correctly, then you don’t need to create a custom page template. Just creat a page with a title “Updates”, or whatever you want it called…leave the content empty and publish it. Then go to Settings/Reading and select a Static Frontpage and set it to the page containing info about you…select your “Updates” page as your post page.
@figaro: That won’t display his posts – which, I understood, was what he wanted.
@esmi: I understood that he wanted a static (about me) homepage and a link to his posts. If so, then that should do it…maybe I’m misunderstanding.
esmi, I am having the same issue. Figaro – just because you make a ‘page’ your blog page… it is still behaving as a page. You can write one article for that page allowing comments, but it is not behaving as a blog roll – there is still no way to connect a ‘post’ to a ‘page’ which has been killing me all morning. I am going to check out the esmi links…
Figaro – just because you make a ‘page’ your blog page… it is still behaving as a page.
Well, I’ve been doing it for a very long time. See the following test site. I have the “Welcome” page set as a static homepage and the “Latest News” page shows all my posts. I did it exactly as I described above. Again, unless I’m misunderstanding what you want to do…
http://educhalk.org/832/steve/
figaro,
What version of wordpress are you using. I am currently usine 2.8.1 and can’t make it work at all. see my site http://www.debtsettlementexplained.com and you can see a static page for the ‘landing page’ and I want to make the ‘In the News’ page my blog.. I have chosen both of those pages (respectively) in the wordpress admin just as instructed but it’s not working. when you type in a new post, do you have to somehow ‘connect’ it to your blog page? I know it’s supposed to work… aaagghhh!
OK… now it’s working sort of… it’s rolling like a blog but there is no comment box…
OK – total idiot user error… LOL… I got it working… and feel really stupid… Thanks for stretching me to the obvious!
I see a comments link on each of your posts…
EDIT: no problem…glad to help.
Thanks for the replies everyone! Just to clear up what im trying to do a little..
The homepage will just be a bit of a welcome page really rather than containing my posts. I will then create a page called ‘Updates’ and that is where I would like my posts to be displayed.
I just tried what Figaro said, and managed to get the Updates page to display my posts (If only I knew it was that simple – thanks!). My posts are still being displayed on my homepage though, how do I edit the content on it?
Thanks Michael! I think i’m almost there now! One last thing, after doing that, i’ve now ended up with pages called ‘Home’, is it possible to hide one?
Probably have a ‘home’ link hardcoded in your theme’s header.php that needs deleting.
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It worked! Thanks so much! = D
