How to use the front and blog static pages?

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  librariansassociation · Member · May 28, 2011 at 4:30 am

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  Morning after theme seems to only allow the front page functionality (widgets and full home/front page display) to work when choosing a posts page in \”reading.\” I was hoping to have posts/the blog in one area and have the full functionality of the home page features for the static page. Not apparently possible?
  Blog url: http://librariansassociation.wordpress.com/

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  p3ob7o · Staff · May 28, 2011 at 7:53 pm

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  With the current settings of your blog, you front page is indeed set to your “home” static page, and your blog page is set to http://librariansassociation.wordpress.com/blog-4/

  The only missing step is to include the blog-4 page into your navigation menu, by defining a custom menu.

  Custom Menus are configurable in the Appearance>Menu section of your dashboard (please read http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ for more information)

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  librariansassociation · Member · May 28, 2011 at 10:37 pm

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  Thanks for the response. I understand how to get the blog-4 page (post page in “reading”) to show in the navigation menu. What I was hoping was for the static page to have the full functionality of the front page for the theme template. So, I would want a static homepage with full functionality (widgets,asides, sticky posts) and have the posts page (currently set to blog-4 in the reading/appearances section, as you saw) just get the blog posts and not have all the functionality. I don’t think the template will allow it. It seems that the template only allows what is set as the posts page to have the functionality I want for my static page. I know I can use the post page as my front page, but I have to then very carefully plan what I post, its position as an aside, sticky or standard post to control the look of that main page with its various modules. Also, the header “librarians association” automatically links to the static page if it is chosen or the posts page if no front page is chosen which further complicates things since you would want that header to link to the “home.” I hope this makes sense. I think the bottom line is, unless you can explain otherwise, the front page features of this template only apply to a blog front page, not to the static front page option.

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  p3ob7o · Staff · May 29, 2011 at 8:28 am

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  Using the sticky posts and the aside format makes it pretty easy though, on “The Morning After” to manage what appears on your homepage.

  This is indeed the only way to go if you want to take advantage of the complex layout of the front page on this theme.