Adding static text to posts page
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Hi, I would like to add text at the top of my site’s blog posts page that describes the mission of the blog and includes a few links. Is there a way to do this? Thanks for the help.
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Yes. By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors, who come to read your latest post, and who are not likely to be happy with being compelled to click through the same static page with the same blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit the blog looking for the latest post.
However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/A static page (select below)
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Thanks for responding! The front page of the site is already a static page and we have a separate “Blog” page. What I would like to have is a piece of text at the top of the Blog page that gives a short description of the blog’s purpose and then to have the updated posts appear beneath that description. So when readers go to our blog page they see something like “Welcome to our blog page! Here’s where we post all our thoughts” (though hopefully something more eloquent than that,) and then they see the posts beneath that. I hope I’m being clear. Thanks again for any help you can offer!
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Hello again,
I assumed you were referring to a free hosted WordPress.COM blog but you aren’t. That is NOT a free hosted WordPress.COM blog and we provide support only for free hosted WordPress.COM blogs being hosted right here on this multiuser blogging platform. You are posting to the wrong support forum.WordPress.com and WordPress.org have different log-ins and run different versions of themes with same names. If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers. http://www.thevagrancy.com/
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