Blog not showing up on my wordpress homepage
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Hi, when I preview site it shows my home page but not the blog, how do i fix this? I have only just joined and can’t figure this out. Thanks in Advance.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Follow the directions “Setting Up a Static Front Page” on the Front Page support page, ignoring any parts you’ve already done. Then create a Custom Menu to replace the default page menu, including a link to the posts page in it.
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A custom menu is not actually necessary. Just make sure you publish a blank page title Blog or Posts which you can then select as your posts page, as per the first instructions @musicdoc1 gave.
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By default, the blog page should have been the front page of your site. I’m not sure how or why you changed it.
If you want your blog to be what people see first when they visit your site, you will want to change the setting in Dashboard>Reading> “
Front page displays” and set it to “Your Latest Posts”. Remember to save your changes.And since you are so new to WPcom (welcome!) you might want to head over to https://learn.wordpress.com/
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@ kokkieh, @ justjennifer
The following is not an attempt to compete with your responses. Just a comment upon our three different perspectives regarding the OP.
The OP says “Hi, when I preview site it shows my home page but not the blog…” I thought the reference was to the presence of the “home” link in the header area navigation menu, and no link to the posts or blog page. That’s why I suggested custom menus. justjennifer may have interpreted the OP correctly, and given the correct advice, but maybe not. How could the member accidentally get a static homepage? I presumed they wanted to
1. keep the static homepage which they’d chosen, and
2. have links to both the static homepage (“home”) and to the posts page (“blog” or “posts”). -
The following is not an attempt to compete with your responses. Just a comment upon our three different perspectives regarding the OP.
You don’t have to worry that we’d interpret it that way. Approaching a question from different directions help us learn from each other, and one may pick up on something another one missed.
How could the member accidentally get a static homepage?
It happens more often that you’d think. The option is in the Customizer as well, so people often set a static front page there without reading the instructions first and then wind up here because their feed is missing.
I thought the reference was to the presence of the “home” link in the header area navigation menu, and no link to the posts or blog page.
I think if one sets a static page as landing page that page’s title replaces Home in the menu, but I could be wrong. I don’t use a static front page myself, and my memory from the last time I had my test site set up like that is a bit foggy.
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I notice you’ve now created a blog page, and you added your post under it via a custom menu. Keep in mind that if you want to follow that approach you’ll need to add each post manually, and your menu will wind up very long and impractical.
Rather go to Settings ->Reading (https://ausnaturephotos.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php) and next to “Posts Page” select your page titled My Blog. Save the settings. Then your posts will appear on that page automatically. They will not, however, appear in the menu.
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@ kokkieh,
Approaching a question from different directions help us learn from each other, and one may pick up on something another one missed.
How true.
It happens more often that you’d think…
Yes, especially with novice members unfamiliar with the layout of the administrative pages. The account was created today.
I think if one sets a static page as landing page that page’s title replaces Home in the menu, but I could be wrong.
Not true. When a static home page is set, the “home” link remains in a default page menu. The URL it links to remains the same, but the static front page replaces the posts page. That’s why they would have to create two menu items in a custom menu, “home” and “posts.”
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Hi everyone, thanks so much for all the responses.
I think what I wrote might of been a confusing way to word it. What I was meaning was I wanted my home page to be static, with a menu that enabled people to access my blog.
I have done what kokkieh said in their last post. If i understand correct my new blog posts will go to under the “my blog” on my site.
And yes I’m very new to wordpress so I appreciate all the help.
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@caseyargall7
It looks like you’ve fixed it now. Yes, every time you post now it should appear on that page, but it won’t appear in the menu. If you want your posts to appear in the menu as well you’ll need to add them manually via the custom menu (like you did with the one post already there), but I’d advise against it for the reasons stated above.Make sure you work through the tutorial @justjennifer linked above. It will help you master the basics much quicker, which will make things much easier.
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Not true. When a static home page is set, the “home” link remains in a default page menu. The URL it links to remains the same, but the static front page replaces the posts page. That’s why they would have to create two menu items in a custom menu, “home” and “posts.”
I’ll take your word for that. As I said, I’ve not used a static front page in a while. A custom menu is not a necessity, though. The default menu will display any published static page, so the posts page will be there. The custom menu just allows you to tweak exactly how they display in the menu, and if both the Home link and the link to your actual static front page appears, it will allow you to remove one so you don’t have two menu links pointing to the same page.
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