Comments on: Using a Static Homepage for Your WordPress Blog

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:07:29 +0000

In that case Jake, this post may solve your issue:
http://www.rlmseo.com/blog/read-more-link-on-wordpress-pages/

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:31:49 +0000

I used the proceedure at
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
which is remarkable similar to this page.

My Issue: The blog page displays complete posts, rather than excerpts, (I believe when front page was a blog page, not static it was showing excerpts)

Would I fiddle with index.php? is it also used in category index pages?

Using Twenty Ten in WP 3.01 with 2010 Weaver 1.3.2 subtheme

By: stefan

stefan — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:56:27 +0000

Hi all!

I am trying to set “Home” as static (successful) and “Blog” page where the latest post are supposed to be shown. I am doing all the steps …Settings > Reading…, but when I set the blog page and see the result, on that blog page I got the content of the Home page. Tryed hundred of times and still nothing… Blog page is empty as should be to shows the posts, but never succeed.
Could you please help me out? Thanks!

Stefab

By: Brian Bohannon

Brian Bohannon — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:01:43 +0000

Well, I’ve tried your postings on using the static page and many others, and it’s just not working. I bought a template that used the front page (where posts usually appear) for static content, leaving it without a “Blog” page to read posts. Now I’m trying to “fix” it using the means above and nothing seems to work.

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:57:39 +0000

Hi Aaron,

Try this http://www.rlmseo.com/blog/read-more-link-on-wordpress-pages/

If that works, your problem is WordPress doesn’t recognize your “blog” page as the actual posts page for some reason.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:52:03 +0000

Here is the problem I m having. I switched the reading options to static page for example
front page: welcome
post page: blog

But now none of my blog posts are showing up on the blog page. When I switch back and to normal the blog posts are back. Any thing I can do to fix this?

By: Avia

Avia — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:16:26 +0000

thanks for the help. great job.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:39:27 +0000

Thanks John! Will be giving this a try in the next few weeks as I set things up. I really appreciate it.

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:33:36 +0000

The link is probably coded into the header.php file (depending on what theme you’re using). Try looking there and removing it.

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:29:15 +0000

Hi Natalie,

Yes, you can do that. In fact, it’s what I’ve done on this site with the “blog” and “tutorials” section.

In my case, the “tutorials” section is the blog index, and the “blog” section is basically just a copy of the tutorials section template with a custom query_posts function call that only loops through posts I’ve assigned to the “Blog” category.

Hope that helps.

By: Dill S

Dill S — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:50:55 +0000

I’m kinda confused. Made a new “Blog” page, but the original blog page is still visible at the top navigation bar! How can I hide that so it isn’t visitable anymore!

By: Natalie

Natalie — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:17:16 +0000

John

Just read this post “How set static homepage for WP blog” Most helpful.

Quick question & if you don’t have time to answer it I totally understand.

I would like to do what you did with here & set the static home page and then the blog area and name it /news/. That is all fine and good. Can I also do that again with another section and make essentially 2 separate blog areas on the same site? ie, do what you said in your Tut but make another one /advice/ and have those entries go to that section.

All the rest of my site will mostly be Pages-Static, so I wanted two blog like sections.

Thanks if you have the time.
Your site is great. I am so glad I found it. Signing up for the RSS now.

Thanks!