How to get “Posts Page” with static front page?

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  howefamadmin · Member · Apr 5, 2009 at 3:36 am

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  Folks:
  Could someone explain how the Reading Settings > Front Page displays settings work?

  I want to have a static page for the landing page (aka Front page), on which I’d like to place a link to the actual page of most-recent posts.

  So, I set the “Front page” setting to the static page. But then I don’t know how to link to the list-of-posts page. And I also don’t understand what the “Posts page” setting is supposed to offer — it’s only showing the available static pages, and no actual posts page.

  Clues?

  – Graham

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  justjennifer · Member · Apr 5, 2009 at 3:56 am

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  You need to add a new Page, call it whatever you want, and set it as the “Posts” Page in those same settings. http://support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

  But, can you give us a link to your WordPress.COM blog, starting with http:// so we can see a bit more, like what theme you’re using?

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  howefamadmin · Member · Apr 5, 2009 at 5:30 am

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  Hi Jennifer — OK, thanks, those support instructions did the job.

  For anyone else stumbling in here, the non-obvious part is this: It’s necessary to create a dummy Page called “Posts” so that the system knows about the URL blogname.wordpress.com/posts, and thus offers that as a choice in:
  Reading Settings > Front page displays > A static page (select below)
  Posts page –> (select Posts here)

  Thanks again,
  Graham

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  justjennifer · Member · Apr 5, 2009 at 5:52 am

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  Welcome!