I’m not very sure if its possible to show only a post (that too complete, not only excerpt) on front page. To achieve what you’re looking at, you’ve two solutions:
1. Appearance > customize > front page content > front page displays > your latest posts
Now change the count of archive from settings > reading > Blog pages show at most = 3
or you can try this:
2. Appearance > customize > front page content > front page displays > static page
Use a plugin, “shortcode ultimate” and show the latest posts with count of 3 in that page, which you’ve chosen for front page.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/
I tried it and ended up trashing this new static page for several reasons:
1- it looked as it needed a name. I used home (tried different as well) and then the website showed two home pages (even if I linked the static page to the new home page)
2- the three posts even when they showed just the excerpts also showed the social media buttons under excerpts and I don’t like this.
I’m looking forward to your advice. Thank you!
what is your site address?
if you’ve done it from here, Appearance > customize > front page content > front page displays > static page, it shouldn’t happen that way.
Even you can publish the page without “title”, coz it will redirect to ur home page anyway and will show you mentioned as “front page” on pages list.
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when you say, it shows social media buttons, are you using any plugin for that? If you’re using addtoany plugin (I’m just guessing), that plugin has an option to disable showing social media buttons on excerpt and archive pages. try that, it should work.
