Creating a 'Blog' link in the top menu just like in the Shoreditch Demo blog
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Hi,
I would like to have a ‘Blog’ link like the one seen in the top menu of Shoreditch Demo blog.Url of Shoreditch Demo blog:
https://shoreditchdemo.wordpress.com/Url that the text ‘Blog’ in the top menu is linked to:
https://shoreditchdemo.wordpress.com/blog/When clicked, the link ‘Blog’ goes to a page that shows all posts on that blog. How was that achieved in the Shoreditch Demo blog? I want to replicate just that.
Kindly note that I am able to add pages in the top menu. But I am not able to figure out how to have a ‘Blog’ link.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi,
At My Site > Pages, add a new page and name it Blog. Leave the page blank and then set that page as your ‘Posts Page’ at the second drop-down menu at Customize > Static Front Page > Your front page displays > A static front page.
Once you’ve assigned the page “Blog” as your blog or posts page you may add “Blog” as an item in the menu as described in the Additional menu items section of the Custom Menus support page.
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Hi there!
I appreciate your help.I did what you said but it is not working on my blog.
After setting the blank “Blog” page as my static front page and adding the page “Blog” in my top menu, only the page title “Blog” is showing up on my front page and no content is showing up although I have published 3 test posts.
I want my blog to look like Shoreditch Demo blog. On that blog, the posts do not show up on the blog home page by default BUT when the link “Blog” seen on top is clicked, the blog posts are displayed. Here is the link of the Shoreditch Demo blog again:
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After setting the blank “Blog” page as my static front page
I didn’t say to set it as your static front page. “Static Front Page” happens to be the title of the menu item at Customize where you begin the process of making the necessary edit, and “A static page” is the last part of the path “Customize > Static Front Page > Your front page displays > A static front page,” leads to the two drop-down menus titled
1. Front page, and
2. Posts page.The second of these is the one that you want to set on “Blog.” I don’t blame you for finding this a bit confusing. The process of setting a page as the posts page needn’t be this difficult to explain, but that’s the state of WordPress.com in late 2016. It’s not the first time in the last 8 years they’s taken something very simple and user friendly and made it more labyrinthine and inexplicable.
You may also set the posts page, without jumping through a maze of hoops, at the top of Reading Settings. Your Reading Settings page is https://walkingtoallah.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php
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I appreciate your kind words and not just your willingness to help me. It’s a huge relief to know that it is kind of okay to feel lost trying to change supposedly simple settings!
Your explanation helped so much. I now have what I needed.
May Allah grant you the best of everything. -
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