Moving blog from "home" page/Which templates are not blogs

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    rtrich11 · Member ·

    I am making a mess here. I am setting up a structure and I want to move my current blog page from the “home” designation and insert it as a separate page. The “Pages” panel does not include it for editing. Then I want to make a new “home” page. This, I hope, can be done through Settings->Reading.

    Also, in the templates area some are designed for blogs and some not. How can you tell, as the filters don’t distinguish.

    Thanks
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    timethief · Member ·

    This is not a themes issue. It’s structure issue.A blog is a website. This is all semantics and blog structure. A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.

    What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one way noticeboard. As the structure is page based and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.

    Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based – no upgrade required. For greater clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

    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 are 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”.

    Set the Homepage

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