Dynamic Static Home Page
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Hi, I am struggling with WordPress at the moment as I am new to blogging and WP both. My only experience with WP is installing it for users but not using it! This time, I am using the WordPress servers for blogging about a personal project.
My query is how do I make the front page a mixture of dynamic and static one? What I want the viewers to see when they open my blog is a page welcoming them and then it is followed by my daily posts in reverse chronological order.
I tried to do achieve this in the Settings>Reading options with selecting ‘A static page’ and a Front Page as ‘Home’ and the Posts page as ‘Blog’. The blog page is empty. When I navigate to swagorspeaks.wordpress.com/blog, it shows all my posts but not in the home page. I am using the Lingonberry theme at the moment.
Any help will be appreciated. Thank you for helping out a noob :D
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how do I make the front page a mixture of dynamic and static one?
You can’t. You choose either a static page OR the dynamic blog posts page. If you want some static content plus your blog posts, use an Alert or a Sticky Post to stick some text and images at the top of the page.
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Hey, I just saw your website. It looks very nice :)
You can’t.
May I know why I can’t?
use an Alert or a Sticky Post to stick some text and images at the top of the page.
How do I go about doing this?
Sorry for the noobness. Thank you for your help! :)
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May I know why I can’t?
You cannot do what’s not possible.
re: static front page
You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page.
(2) A static front page and posts on a different page.By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors.
However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for all published posts (not pages) to display on in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top.
To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
A static page (select below)
Front page:
Posts page:The guide is here http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
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re: sticky posts
By default, WordPress.com blogs display posts in reverse chronological order on the home page or page for posts with the latest post at the top. There isn’t a way to display posts in chronological order, but you can mark some posts as Sticky to make them appear above the other posts. They will stay at the top of your posts until you uncheck that option on the Edit screen for that post. See here https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts
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