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  • Resolved wen.wainwright

    (@wenwainwright)


    I’m using a child theme/twentytwelve.

    I’d like to have the landing page/front page/home page be the page titled “blog.” I’d like the page titled “blog” to be a page of posts. Also I would like the titles of the posts to show but I do not want the titles of the other pages to show.

    So far I’ve managed to make the page you get when you go to the URL show the posts with titles. I’ve gotten rid of the page titles…but with them go the post titles…

    Here’s the site.

    Thanks. Super frustrated!

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  • I see post titles on that page.

    Thread Starter wen.wainwright

    (@wenwainwright)

    Well, yes, I’m still trying while I wait for hope. If I use this code which I found on this forum in a similar but just not quite the same post:

    .entry-header {
    display: none;
    }

    The page titles disappear but so do the post titles.

    Try changing that to:

    .page .entry-header {
    display: none;
    }

    Thread Starter wen.wainwright

    (@wenwainwright)

    O.K. Yay! That restored the post titles and got rid of the page titles. However I am trying to make the page titled “blog,” be the page that you first arrive on and that displays the posts. If you click on “blog” – after just arriving to the site or clicking in the header – the posts are there, but without titles…is there a way to make the page “blog” be the page you are on when you arrive at the site, be in bold like the other current page pages, and the posts have titles? Or am I going around in the wrong circle entirely?

    How did you get rid of the post titles on that blog page? If you removed code you need to put that back.

    Thread Starter wen.wainwright

    (@wenwainwright)

    SOLUTION! What I wanted to do was create a blog/portfolio site. I wanted the first page/landing page to show “latest posts.” Next on the menu was “Sketchbook” which is a category. The rest of the menu items were pages to which I would add sub-pages to show my portfolio. The problem is that when you clicked on the page “Blog” in the menu the title of that page “Blog” would show up at the top of the latest posts…so I tried a lot of CSS to get it out of there. In the end what worked was going into Appearances -> Menu and under Links I added my website url and for link text I put “blog.” I added that to the menu (primary) and made it the first item. Then in Settings -> Reading I set the “front page displays – your latest posts”. So when you click on the first menu item, “Blog,” it takes you to the home of the website since that is the url of that link which shows the latest posts. I’m not sure this is the best solution but it works and I need to move on for now. You can look at the site here if you are coming across similar problems.

    Thread Starter wen.wainwright

    (@wenwainwright)

    O.K. the code above from WPYogi does get rid of the page titles on all the other pages where I will put my first page of portfolio content – so it takes care of the page title problem and changing “Blog” to a custom link brings you to the front page that shows the latest posts without the word “Blog” being at the top.

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