I want all posts after the first to not show up on home page screen
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Is there any way to prevent blog posts from showing up on the screen when people click on your blog? I would like to have some sort of introductory statement on the screen, which maybe could be my first post that I would make sticky, and then have all of the other posts show up somewhere else.
I may not be explaining what I want to accomplish here. This is set-up I would like:
1. Visitor goes to my blog. He or she sees the title of my blog, the header photo, and a brief, elegant statement welcoming them to the blog. I want to turn off the date line and fix it so people cannot comment in any way on this statement. (I don’t know if it possible to delete date lines and not show or allow comments.) My idea is I make this my first post, although maybe there is a better way to do this.
2) Then, all of my other posts show up somewhere else (not on first screen). Apparently, I cannot do individual posts on pages. If I could, I would just add posts to a page, that people could access in the header.
I have no idea how to do all this. I want a clean, spare look on the first screen of my blog, with my blog title, a header photo, and a brief statement. Then I want somehow to have my blog posts show up somewhere else, just not on the first screen.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.
Mickey
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Ideas? Always, however most would advise you against a Static Front Page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ as that makes your site look stale and people that just drop in will see the same old page, maybe OK if you want to sell a widget and stock 10,000 different widgets and this is the first page of your company catalog.
A current events blog like yours should look fresh for the front page, @timethief and @raincoaster have more guidelines on a static page, you want your site to be fresh looking for search engines to help you get random search engine traffic.
Use the More Tag to help keep the front page looking clean, load quick and easy for people to page down and see earlier articles.
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@mickeymurphy
Do you want a blog that encourages frequent visits and lots of interactive communication or do your want a website that operates like a noticeboard? This is an important question to answer because I see people making decisions based on aesthetics that are traffic killers and SEO quashers.Visitors return to blogs to read fresh content.
(1) The number 1 traffic killer on any blog is setting up a static front page so every time a visitor returns they have to click through a blah, blah, blah they didn’t come to read. They come to read fresh content and if they keep experiencing a blah, blah,. blah page they stop coming – period.
(2) The second traffic killer is to post a sticky post at the top of your front page and the reason they stop coming is the same one as stated in (1)
(3) SEO – There are distinct differences between pages and posts and the ramifications of choosing to create a page based structure (website) rather than a post based structure (blogs) then you need to comprehend what they are.
If you want search engine traffic, backlinks, and a decent pagerank thenread this > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/05/12/better-blogging-at-wordpress-com-pages-and-posts/
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@blossomgem
I clicked you username and this was the result:winx-girls.wordpress.com doesn’t exist
If you have a question about a free hosted WordPress.com blog then please post an active link starting with http:// to the blog in question.
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These are all good thoughts. However, this is for a brand new blog that I just started last night, MYBOSWELL, and I want the introductory page to be exceptionally clean and sparse so that I can find clients who will hire me to write and develop photo biographies of them, which I will format as posts. This will be my content. I want my opening screen to function as the cover of a brochure, or as a portal, which will hopefully entice people to hire me to develop their content which I will create as posts in the queue. I worry that if I start just shoving the bios I develop up on the front page, there will be no sales message. Butt I understand that you want to not present a static front page. Is there any way I can include a few grafs of intro text on the front page, maybe as a widget or something, that will always open, just like a signature photo at the top of a blog, and then I will include the individual posts below that. This way, I would not have to use a sticky post. To see the new blog, and what I am trying to achieve please click on this link: http://myboswell.wordpress.com/. Thanks. – Mickey
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auxclass posted the link to instructions for creating a static front page > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
You can limit the number of posts that display on the static page you create and assign your posts to here > Settings > Reading
Staff have provided help for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/
How to create a custom menu. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/The theme is Manifest
” .. you can create different types of posts by choosing appropriate post formats. You can create image posts, link posts, asides, and Manifest will present them in the same neat, clutter free way it shows your regular text posts. “
and the details are here > http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/manifest/
see also > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-formats/ -
Thanks to all for the as usual tremendously helpful commentary. I have revised my new blog accordingly. Yes, I am using a static front page, but that is what I (think I) want, something simple and clean that quickly tells the MY BOSWELL story. – Mickey
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By the way, TimeThief, is there any way I can eliminate my user name – mickeymurphy – from showing up in my posts for my new blog? I certainly don’t want this to appear. It does not on any of my other blogs. And usually it does not when I access the posts for my new blog directly from my dashboard. But if I access from Google, or from links. it does (sometimes). Very bad. For example, I have this biography on my new blog:
Joe Bob Smith
That’s all I want to see, plus the bio text, of course.
But because of this stupid username problem here is what you sometimes see:
Joe Bob Smith
by mickeymurphy
I don’t want that. As usual I have checked as many things on dashboard as possible, and I have gone through the help files but no luck. Do you know if there is any way I can eliminate this by mickeymurphy tag line from appearing? Thanks. – Mickey
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You have to choose a theme that doesn’t display authors OR you have to learn CSS editing from scratch, purchase the CSS upgrade, and hide it.
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You wanted to eliminate your user name – mickeymurphy – from showing up in my posts in your new blog? So I thought I’d best point out that it is appearing in the copyright. That’s all.
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Thanks TT. I want it in copyright but not after every post. I’ll figure something out. Unfortunately, I do not have time to learn CSS, whatever that is. Too busy trying to make a living.
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