Can I redirect to another page?

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    enochscion · Member ·

    You know how you go to someone’s blog and the front page has only their latest post, but if you click on a link to a category you can see a blog roll of recent posts?

    Can I do that with my free wordpress account?

    I can’t seem to find anyway to limit the front page to showing only the single latest post, but have category pages that show multiple posts.

    It seems like I could create a custom page template or use php (neither of which I have the training to use, but I can cut and paste like a pro) to accomplish this, but I’m not sure that I have access to that functionality in the free version.

    So, a fairly simple question I hope.

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    kristinavanhoos · Member ·

    Step 1: Go to: WP Admin (add wp-admin/ to the end of your wordpress.com url. Example: mygroovyname.wordpress.com/wp-admin/.

    Go to Settings > Reading.

    Change Default Blog Posts to 1.

    Step 2. Create a Category Widget or create a page link to the categories.

    Does that help?

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    enochscion · Member ·

    Thanks for the suggestion.

    Unfortunately, while it works just fine at keeping the front page down to 1 post, it also keeps the category pages at 1 post. The maximum posts per page is apparently a global setting.

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    kristinavanhoos · Member ·

    Oh wait. That won’t do what I thought you were asking. Sorry. I didn’t read clearly.

    This appears to be something that WordPress.org features.

    It was discussed in this thread

    Sorry. :(

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    justjennifer · Member ·

    @enochscion – That thread discusses having a static front Page, not your latest actual Post on your front page.

    As you’ve already discovered, changing the Reading setting to display a single post changes it for all dynamic pages, such as archive, search, category and tag pages. There’s no way around this here on WPcom.

    Can you describe a little more about what exactly you want to do?

    Also, please provide us a link to the actual site you need help with. The link in your username leads to a site without any content.

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    kristinavanhoos · Member ·

    I was thinking about this again. You could potenionally accomplish this by using a category such as “featured” and having your landing page be that category page (eg yoursite.wordpress.com/category/featured)

    It would require you to change your categories on your posts every time you post though.

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    enochscion · Member ·

    Thanks everyone.

    My site isn’t live yet, because it’s just test pages at this point, and I wanted to wait until it is properly formatted to make it visible.

    Making a new category actually sounds like it would work. As long as there is only one post in that category, the category page could only show one post, regardless of how many I have the categories set to show. Just adding that second category on my latest post along with its normal category, and then removing this extra category when I make a new post seems like about the easiest way to do it. I never would have thought of providing the link to that category page as the primary link to my blog. It’s way better than what I tried before, which was having a static front page and then manually inserting a link to the latest post–a major hassle, and it didn’t solve the issue of having the actual post be there, it just gave you the link.

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