Adding my latest blog post to my static home page

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  erinschuurmans · Member · Oct 7, 2015 at 9:38 pm

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  I was wondering if there was a way to have my latest blog post on my static home page? I have next to no theme editing skills if it involves anything more complicated than the “customize” section of my theme. Is there a widget that could help me with this?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 7, 2015 at 9:41 pm

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  This is an one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
  (1) All posts on the front page.
  (2) A static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.

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  erinschuurmans · Member · Oct 7, 2015 at 9:42 pm

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  Sigh, I was afraid of this. Thanks :-)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 7, 2015 at 9:44 pm

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  You’re welcome. My opinion below may not warm your heart towards me but here goes.

  Frankly the last thing I would ever do on any of my blogs is to create a static front page and force all my returning visitors to have to click through it every time they came to read my latest post. Yes, it is my opinion that static front pages can become traffic killers.

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  erinschuurmans · Member · Oct 7, 2015 at 9:54 pm

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  That makes a lot of sense. Ok, so stupid question, but is there a way to have permanent text on a blog front page without a plugin? All I really care about is one paragraph of text and I’m running the free version of wordpress for a little while.

  Thanks so much :-)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 7, 2015 at 10:07 pm

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  No there isn’t – sorry.