I want to change how my blog posts are displayed on my homepage

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  readitnewjersey · Member · Apr 7, 2016 at 7:05 am

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  I want to change how the posts hosted in the ‘blog’ page are displayed on my home page. right now are displayed several posts, in a vertical stream down a column. i would rather the blog category on my homepage to display only one, the most recent post in its respective column. this is an attempt to clean a lot of the dead space on the home display.
  the blog in question is readitnewjersey.wordpress.com

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

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  wpndesign · Member · Apr 7, 2016 at 9:10 am

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  Hi there,

  I had a look at your webpage above and it seems that you have activated the ‘Grid page’ template. If you have a look at the Demo of your theme here:
  https://edindemo.wordpress.com/page-templates/default-page/
  when you activate the ‘Default page’ template it seems that it displays your latest post.
  If you play around with this demo you will get a better idea of all the layouts this theme has to offer you.

  Let us know if you need any further help :-)

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  readitnewjersey · Member · Apr 7, 2016 at 4:22 pm

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  i’m very illiterate in how this all works quite yet, the link you provided seems to allow me to navigate through the example of a pretty well polished blog in the Edin theme. Is it a kind of tutorial or something designed to help me learn how to manipulate the theme features? if it is, i don’t have knowledge enough to get to the tutoring part.

  i had accidentally changed how the blog column displays in my grid once. it showed only a singly blog post. I managed to bumble around enough to get it to display all of my posts again (the state its in now). i now realize this causes visual dead space. i want to achieve the solitary-post display again, but nothing seems to work.

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  readitnewjersey · Member · Apr 7, 2016 at 4:39 pm

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  i bumbled around some more and found out what i needed, as well as figured out what you were talking about in regard to exploring the theme.

  for my specific need:

  Theme > static front page > under “posts page” drop down choose “-select-” > save

  by choosing “-select-” (effectually not choosing any subcategory) the theme puts up a default blog page instead of the blog stream.

  eventually i will have to figure out the “parent page” thing, but this small victory is enough for now.

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  wpndesign · Member · Apr 8, 2016 at 10:41 am

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  Hey I’m glad you explored and got it to work to what you wanted for now:-)
  Another useful guide to help you figure out how ‘Parent pages’ work is this:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-options/
  Think of it as a ‘parent – to – child’ relationship.. :-)

  Have fun and you can always write back for more help!

  Cheers