Brand new to the blog, cant see my first blog post
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So i set up a theme, sort of customized it, and then published a blog post. It says its published, and i can click the view post button to see it, but if i visit my actual domain page, nothing shows up. I can search for it on my homepage, but that does zero good. Please help. Domain is mantasticconcepts
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So i did a few things and although i didnt fix the problem, i saw that if i type in my domain and add a /blog following the domain, i can view my blog posts. But again, how can i just log out, type in my domain and see all of my posts rather than having to add the /blog every time?
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Hey there!
I love your blog name! It looks like maybe you set it to use a static home page instead of your most recent posts. This can be changed inside the Site Customizer.
On the left menu, under Static Front Page you want to select the bubble for ‘Your latest posts’. That should change it so that your first post shows up on the home page instead of a static page.
I found this help article that has a video tutorial on how to use that menu: https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
Let me know if that doesn’t work for you!
~Jess
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Sounds like you definitely have it set to Static Home Page with the optional Blog page. The help article I provided above has information on the menu where you can change that.
~Jess
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Thank you so much, that helped out alot. I still have no idea what i am doing but at least people can view posts haha. Thank you again.
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Awesome! Glad to hear it. I made the same mistake the first time I worked with WordPress.
~Jess
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Well i had no clue, i would have been hunting for days had i not asked. So will all of my posts always show up on the homepage? Or are they archived in the search toolbar? Guess my question is, 6 months from now, how would somebody read my first post?
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That depends on how your theme works and your blog settings. You can customize all of your archive settings to show as few or as many as you want.
This help article has some information on archiving shortcodes: https://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/
This article goes over the basics of Reading Settings, which controls how your readers see your posts: https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/reading-settings/
The short and easy answer to your question is, you control what your readers see which is pretty cool!
~Jess
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