Layout of site home page puzzles me
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Hi,
I just posted my second blog (Hurrah!).
When I go to my site’s home page (http://xatapult.wordpress.com) I see my NEW article displayed as a summary and my older article displayed in full…This puzzles me. Wouldn’t it be more logical to display the most recent post full and the rest in summary?
How does WordPress determine what articles to display the summary of and what in full. Can I have any control on this?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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xatapult,
Did you by any chance make the older post ‘sticky’?
http://support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts -
ALl right, I understand (I think…)
When you stick in a <!–more–> tag, the front page displays the summary.
When you don’t, it displays the full article.Ok, fair enough.
Thanks.BTW: What happens when the front page becomes too full (when you have lots of posts)?
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When the front page gets too full, the excess posts are automatically deleted.
No, seriously…in Settings > Reading you set how many posts your blog pages should show. If you set it to be 10 posts than there will 10 posts. If you have 11 posts, the 11th post will be on a 2nd page and there will be an ‘Older posts’ link at the bottom of 1st page that links to the 2nd page.
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When the front page gets too full, the excess posts are automatically deleted.
Just to clarify they are not actually deleted, they just are no longer displayed on the front page. They are still accessible via tags, links, and the “view older posts” option. (you probably knew this anyway)
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