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  codedwords · Member · Sep 30, 2016 at 7:21 pm

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  Hi, my homepage does not show my latest posts on my website. I am using Rowling theme.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Sep 30, 2016 at 7:33 pm

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  Hi,

  There is just one published post on the site https://codedwords.wordpress.com/, and it is displayed on the homepage. Have you attempted to publish other posts?

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  codedwords · Member · Oct 3, 2016 at 1:44 pm

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  That has been set by me. It did not happen automatically. Though my other post titled ‘Love Song’ appears on the home page, it does not show a thumbnail of the post. It would have been better if a thumbnail of the post appeared on the home page. Second, is it a possibility that if I add content on other pages, let say motivation, it would appear automatically on the homepage. I tried, but it’s not happening. Please guide.

  And yea, thanks for the reply :)

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Oct 3, 2016 at 5:22 pm

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  You’re welcome : )

  Though my other post titled ‘Love Song’ appears on the home page, it does not show a thumbnail of the post.

  The thumbnails are of featured images applied to the posts. If no featured image is set on a post, then no thumbnail will appear on the posts page. The image on the post https://codedwords.wordpress.com/2016/10/01/love-song/ appears to be within the content of the post rather than a featured image set.

  Second, is it a possibility that if I add content on other pages, let say motivation, it would appear automatically on the homepage.

  No. The content of a static page will never appear on the homepage set to display the latest posts. The only time the content of a static page might appear on the homepage would be if that page were set as the static front page.

  It sounds like you might be thinking of dynamic Category Pages. If you would like a menu item, such as “Motivation,” to open a page which includes posts in that category, then there are a few changes that must be implemented to make that happen. They are:
  1. If you haven’t already done so, assign the category “Motivation” to one or more posts.
  2. Change the link URL in the custom menu item “Motivation” so that it links to the category page https://codedwords.wordpress.com/category/motivation/ (which won’t exist until at least one post has been assigned this category), instead of to the static page https://codedwords.wordpress.com/motivation/.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Oct 3, 2016 at 5:24 pm

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  I forgot to change “a few” (changes) to “two,” after I noticed that you already had a custom menu activated.

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  codedwords · Member · Oct 6, 2016 at 5:38 pm

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  Thank you so much! The reply was helpful :)

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Oct 7, 2016 at 1:53 am

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  You’re welcome!