Can I have static Home page, but posts go to another page?

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  vickilloyd · Member · Jan 31, 2008 at 2:36 am

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  I set up my blog with a main page, and 15 sub-pages. I would like posts to go to one of the sub pages, but the main page doesn’t have a name. (Is it “home” by default?) I would like the home (entry) page to be static, and then have a “news” page that will show all the posts. Will this work?

  My site is http://lakeforest2homes.wordpress.com/

  Thanks for any advice!
  Vicki

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 31, 2008 at 2:54 am

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  That doesn’t look much like a blog; it’s a static website with a virtually unused blog attached. The main page IS the blog; it does not need another name. Some themes call it “Home” as well.

  Unless you use POSTS rather than PAGES, you will not get anywhere near the full utility, nor the SEO advantages of a WordPress.com blog. You want to write posts, not pages. Posts do not go to sub-pages. You can categorize them, and then when someone clicks that category in your sidebar all they see are those kinds of posts, but if you need more separation than that, what you need are separate blogs for each division.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 31, 2008 at 2:55 am

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  You can write a static page like “Welcome” and set that to be the front page of your blog: again, for SEO reasons it is not recommended that you do this. You will slaughter your Google juice by not having an active, updating blog as your front page.

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  vickilloyd · Member · Feb 1, 2008 at 9:26 pm

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  Thank you! I think I have some re-design work to do.