IXION – blog post assignment
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just wondering if a new page can be assigned to take blog posts, so that a welcome/home page can appear first.
this is an exceptionally elegant and versatile theme.
thanks…
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Yes. You can create a static front page.
Every theme has a detailed theme description page like this one at https://wordpress.com/themes/ixion/ That’s where set up instructions for it are found. The live demo site is at https://ixiondemo.wordpress.com/
All support docs are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/
This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page ie. the Home 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:Go to https://circleofwomenretreats.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php and make the required change.
Front page displays
Save changes
__ Your latest posts -
YIKES! I’m sorry.
Go to http://elliottecarter.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php and make the required change.
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Hi, is there any chance to show more than just the title of the blog posts on the home page? Thanks
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Every theme has a detailed theme description page like this one at https://wordpress.com/themes/ixion/ That’s where set up instructions for it are found. The live demo site is at https://ixiondemo.wordpress.com/
Be aware that there has been a mobile and tablet explosion and many visitors do not want to load full posts. It takes too long to load and crashes their browsers. They want post titles that clearly describe what is in a post and a brief excerpt on the front page. They will click the continued reading, read more, etc. links to read only the posts they are interested in.
If you want full post to display select a theme that is designed to display them. All themes are unique. Some old themes are designed to display full posts on the front page but newer themes are not so designed.
You have two choices (1) select another theme (2) use the excerpt function knowing that the HTML will NOT be active ie. this suggestion doesn’t work with objects inserted via a shortcode (videos, polls, audio players etc).
On any theme with an active excerpt box below the editor box you can use this workaround to have full posts on the front page. You compose your whole post first and before you publish it you switch to the HTML (Text) editor, copy all the code, paste it into the Excerpt box below the posts editor, and publish the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/excerpts/#creating-excerpts
If you do not see an excerpt box then go to screen options on the top right hand corner of your Admin page and include all the modules:
Post – Likes and Shares, Format, Categories, Tags, Excerpt, Send Trackbacks, Discussion, Comments, Slug, Author, Revisions, Writing Helperre: switching themes
Note that switching themes https://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/#switch-themes can be easily done, provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the site. Themes are just “skins” on WordPress.COM hosted blogs. You can quickly and easily change themes on any WordPress.COM hosted blog to another one found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and no data will be lost or negatively affected by the change. The only time you may have to do a lot of work is if you are changing to a dramatically different theme with different features and/or if you have done any CSS editing.
Provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the blog go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes, Browse themes until you find one you like and click the “activate” or the “preview” link, or type in the name of the theme you want to use when it appears.
The theme customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/ provides a preview function for exactly that purpose ie. so you can view what a theme will appear like prior to changing one.
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Hi @oanamgusatu!
When using a Static Front Page, Ixion is specifically built to display just the titles in the “Recent Posts” section.
If you’d like some or all of the post content to display, use the settings in My Site > Customize > Static Front Page to set your front page to show Your latest posts.
Then, use My Site > Customize > Content options to choose whether you’d like the full posts, or excerpts to be displayed :)
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