Looking for a theme that displays pages not posts on homepage
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There are various themes I like the look of eg Spun or Studio or The Writer – because the homepage displays in a kind of thumbnail arrangement.
My question is, can these themes be set so the thumbnails are pages rather than posts? Ideally, one of the thumbnails would link through to the blog posts.
Thanks for any advice!
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There are two choices and only two choices. Posts on the front page mean that search engines are crawling your blog frequently. Setting a static front page does not result in that at all because pages sit outside the blog structure and are intended for use for content that rarely changes.
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, and know that static front pages can be traffic killers, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts.
To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/A static page (select below)
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And why in the name of all that is holy do you want to use pages this way? Why would you not use posts? Don’t you want to get on Google?
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If you really want thumbnails – why not choose a theme that does thumbnails of Posts
Also if you used the More Tag to shorten your Posts a bit – the front page will be easier to navigate
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Thank you timethief – that’s a really clear explanation. Raincoaster – I would still be posting, but if not putting them on the front page is a google barrier, then clearly it’s not a good plan! And I didn’t know about the More tag auxclass, so I’ll definitely use that going forward.
Big thanks to you all :) -
@isabelashdown
You’re welcome. Here’s a bit more information for you.It takes weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL. What attracts search engines is unique content in posts (not pages) that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet. Start now publishing original content posts frequently two or even three times weekly. For more information read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/
To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.Note also that WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines
Lastly note that we cannot assist with search engine issues. They are between the blogger and the search engine. http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/
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