Home page static but still having a blog

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  omarrotero · Member · Oct 16, 2015 at 9:29 pm

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  Hi,
  I am trying to make my home page static but I still need my blog to run. I got instructions to do this but could not understand them. Can anyone give me the dummy version of the explanation so I can get this done? Thank you.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 16, 2015 at 9:34 pm

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  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 who will not be happy to have to click through an About page every time they visit your blog as they come to read your most recently published content. Creating that situation can make some visitors annoyed – so annoyed that they stop following your blog.

  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 for each of the two page and click “save changes”.
  A static page (select below)
  Front page:
  Posts page:

  The guide for creating a static front page is here http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

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  timethief · Member · Oct 16, 2015 at 9:35 pm

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  P.S. No CSS editing is required to do what you ask to do.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 16, 2015 at 9:37 pm

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  Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu
  Add any custom links and other items like static pages into your custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links and https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages and then arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus