Posts and pages on same…well, page

  • paladinbrewer

    (@paladinbrewer)


    8 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,

    I am new to WordPress and thus far am finding it a bit frustrating 🙂

    For some reason this is confusing me. My main page/landing page (whatever you call it) has my posts on it of course, which I want. But I also want to add information above and maybe below those posts, like an Introduction or something. How can I do that? I cannot find any way to have posts and pages on the same…page? I only found one plugin called “Posts in Page” but it’s 8 months out and out of commission. Am I overseeing something really simple? I don’t understand why I cannot easily make my pages look how I wish them to 🙁

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  • Eric Amundson

    (@sewmyheadon)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Howdy @paladinbrewer,

    Posts in Page is still actively used and supported, but in need of another WP update. We have a few updates that we’re going to push shortly but the plugin works fine with WordPress 4.8.2 in the meantime.

    My main page/landing page (whatever you call it) has my posts on it of course, which I want. But I also want to add information above and maybe below those posts, like an Introduction or something. How can I do that?

    Great question and not a super-easy one to answer.

    The truth is that some of this is dependent on your theme and its capabilities. Some themes provide widget areas above or below certain content, which could work.

    As you point out, another option is to use a plugin like Posts in Page. If you did this, I’d suggest experimenting with making a static home page that contains the info you want at the top and bottom and then using the Posts in Page shortcode to pull in posts from your blog.

    Does that make sense?

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    Eric

    Thread Starter paladinbrewer

    (@paladinbrewer)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Hello @sewmyheadon,

    Thanks for the response. I went to the “Posts in Page” support forum and there was a post there saying it was no longer supported? Now that I look again, I misread it, so nevermind 🙂

    I’m new to WordPress…how do I put a page into a widget? Can I see the list of widgets? I hate to ask dumb questions…I’ve used Joomla for over a decade, and for some reason cannot wrap my head around WordPress. It is frustrating 😛

    Eric Amundson

    (@sewmyheadon)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Hi @paladinbrewer,

    You’re quite welcome.

    Here’s more on Widgets: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Widgets

    Good luck!

    Eric

    Thread Starter paladinbrewer

    (@paladinbrewer)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Oh nevermind to the above question. Sadly my theme only has Sidebar widgets 🙁

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