Can I use main page of blog as table of contents?
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On each of my Blogger(TM) blogs, e.g. http://tribune.grputland.com/ , I use the main page as a table of contents, showing only the date and title of each post. Hence I don’t need archive pages. I’m wondering whether wordpress.com has enough flexibility to do the same thing, e.g. if one uses the Sandbox theme and Custom CSS.
(I presume that wordpress.org running on an independent hosting service has the necessary flexibility; but I’d prefer to keep things simpler.)
Has anyone tried it?
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I’m replying to bump. Please note that the bumper (me) and the original poster are different people.
This is a very good question, posed well.
I’ll look at it later on if I can get the kids to bed at a reasonable hour (9pm east coast USA), and no-one else has addressed it.
But I hope that someone else will beat me to it. -
You don’t need CSS: you just need a static page as your front, and the archives shortcode in it.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/ -
Thanks, panaghiotisadam . It seems that the archives shortcode doesn’t generate dates. Hence I wonder whether Sandbox and Custom CSS can customize the “posts page” so as to show dates and titles only.
(Explanatory note: I ask this question because it is likely to be of interest to disgruntled Blogger(TM) users who used their front pages as tables of contents but had them truncated by the auto-pagination bug. But the answer might be elusive, because on Blogger a table of contents must be a highly customized front page, whereas on WordPress.com it can be an uncustomized shortcode (albeit with no dates), so that the business of customizing a table of contents might be outside the experience of WordPress.com users. But I thought it was worth a try.)
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