I cannot display blog posts

  • Unknown's avatar
    besteglatisant · Member ·

    Hello,

    I’m setting up a new blog and I’m using the Orvis theme.
    I’ve managed to set up the portofolio as my front page but now I can’t seem to access my blog posts.

    When I go into my ‘Pages’, there is a ‘not used’ sign in front of ‘Blog posts’. Is there any way to change that so I can add a link to the blog in the menu?

    See screenshot here: http://i64.tinypic.com/2qd1wlw.png

    Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance :)

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

  • Unknown's avatar
    timethief · Member ·

    Have you actually published any posts (not pages) yet? You may need to do that first.

    Your detailed theme description page is at https://wordpress.com/themes/orvis/ and that’s where set up instructions for it are found. The live demo site is at https://orvisdemo.wordpress.com/

    This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
    (1) All posts on the front page. By default that is the URL of the site.

    (2) A static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all 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 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, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. Create your pages first
    Front page:
    Posts page:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

    After you do that you go to > Dashboard > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

    A static page (select below)
    Front page:
    Posts page:

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    besteglatisant · Member ·

    Thanks for your help :)
    My answer was in the link about the static front page. There had been a line I’d misunderstood there which is why I wasn’t able to set up the blog page.

    Thanks again for your help. It was much appreciated.

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