Home vs Blog tabs Twenty ten and twenty twelve
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The twenty-ten theme supposedly gives you the option to add a static page. I would think you could also have your blog posts on a different page, no? But I can’t rename my Home page, apparently, which is the one containing my blogs. Even though in the Menu I’ve renamed it, and reordered it. As soon as I tell it to use a static page for my Front, it gets rid of the blog.
I’d love to use twenty-twelve instead, because it seems like this is set up better for a home page (though the same thing happens), but I hate the way the blog title is so small and plain–would rather have the header behind the title instead of below the tabs. Also, the widgets are spaced very far apart and there’s a lot of space between a widget title and the content… ie, too much white space in the sidebar, when you want people not to have to scroll so much.
Thoughts? How do I get BOTH a home page and a blog page, as per the template thumbnail and demo?
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This is not theme related. 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 come to read your latest post, and who are not likely to be happy with being compelled to click through the same static page with the same blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit the blog looking for the latest post.
However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, and know that static front pages are traffic killers, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. 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”.
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Thanks. I don’t even remember what I did last night to fix it, but I’m glad to know about the settings thing! I think for my purposes, people are more interested in who I am than in what I have to say. If I add a post, I can link directly to the blog page on FB and Twitter and such. I just talked to a literary agent who said if you can’t keep recent posts on your blog that hurts you. I find it hard to get more than one post per month up and I think my last one was in May. So I figured if the blog page was ancillary, then maybe agents and editors wouldn’t mind so much. I was converting to a template, so I already had the pages in place and just wanted to add the front page. Really what I want is a website rather than a blog, but here we are. … Thanks again!
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