Blogs wont go to front page
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Hey
Just started so apologies if this is a rookie mistake. I’ve got the twenty ten theme. i have a home page, and about page and a blog page. I would like brief summaries of my blogs to go on to my home page, in chronological order that then have a link to my blog page. I would like the opening paragraph of my about page to also go on to my home page as a summary and then link to my about page. I have tried for HOURS and I literally cannot work this out, although I’ve seen it on other blogs. I’ve tried making things sticky and changing settings in Readings but to no avail. Please help!
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Pages are static and are for content that rarely changes. They sit outside of the blog structure and you cannot post to multiple pages in any blog. There is only one main page for posts in a blog and all posts will display on the main blog page. There is no way to exclude posts from the main posts (blog) page.
The front page of the blog by default will display your posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. If you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts.
Choice 1 static front page
Choice 2 running page for all posts on front pageWhich do you choose? It’s one or the other.
If you choose Choice 1 static front page then you have to create two pages as I said above. After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
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I would like brief summaries of my blogs to go on to my home page…
See here > the more tag
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That isn’t possible here at wordpress.com. What you would have to do is to completely design a new page type with PHP scripting and we cannot do that here at wordpress.com.
You might check out the twenty eleven showcase page template as it would get you a little closer to what you want, but a good bit of the showcase template workings is completely manual in that you would have to sticky and unsticky posts each time you created a new post to move an old one off of the main page and put the new one on the main page.
Twenty Eleven theme description page: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentyeleven/
Panos on Twenty Eleven and Duster themes: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/workings-of-duster/
On the “about” thing, you would have to create an “about me” widget in the sidebar using a text widget. -
Okay. that’s exactly what I’m finding myself but then I saw this blog on freshly pressed which seems to be doing what I want but I can’t simulate it. Is this something outside of wordpress?
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Oh dear, that’s bad. I hope we can persuade you not to do that.
What he’s got is ONE STATIC PAGE (which is nearly invisible to Google and which, because it’s the very first page of his blog that people land on, interferes with the search engine optimization of his whole blog). He excerpts bits from each of his actual blog posts and pastes them on that continuously growing page, with a link put in manually to the actual blog post.
I can’t stress enough how bad that is. I’m amazed the Freshly Pressed editor found it at all.
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Raincoaster, can you expand a bit on why this is so bad? Other than being a lot of manual labor, he is creating a static page with new information on it all the time. Why would search engines not like that? The page keeps getting new content albeit not complete. And search engines find regular websites that are not blogs all the time. I am not challenging, just want to understand better.
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Search engines don’t like static pages, because static pages are designed for static information, information which is not continuously updated. Search engines don’t bother re-crawling pre-existing pages for new material.
Search engines can find static websites, yes, but not as easily as they find blogs. Let me quantify this for you. A friend of mine had a blog in the top 1000 on Technorati, ie top 1000 in the world. He switched to a static front page. He dropped, instantly, to 360,000th place.
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Wow. thanks for the information. I run a website for an organization and am moving it to a WordPress site (org in this case altho I have some wordpress.coms myself) so this will help me decide what to use for the front page in my redo. Currently I have a hand coded front page that runs a wordpress loop of the newest posts from certain categories of the wordpress blog that runs on that site too. I really like the ability to use just some of the posts since it is our “face” to the public and I like the ability to have some introductory text too. You have given me food for thought. I’m doing the member side first which is not searched so I have some time to decide. It is a local craft organization so it usually appears first when you search the city and the subject. But we’ve been online quite a few years too.
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