Need Step-By-Step Help With Static Page/Posts Page
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Hello, I am using the cerauno theme at http://www.frozenheartspoetry.wordpress.com and I am having a very difficult time trying to set up a static page and a posts page. All I want to do is have a static page and a posts page. As you can see if you visit the site, the page I want to be my static page is “Poetry.” I think I got that part figured out. The problem is, how do I create a page for my latest posts? I tried everything for hours and just cannot seem to figure it out. So, what I did was, to make it simple, trashed all the other pages I had, and now I just got this one page. Again, can somebody please give me step by step instructions on how to add a page that will display my latest posts. Thank you very much.
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Your detailed theme description page is at https://wordpress.com/themes/cerauno / and that’s where set up instructions for it are found. The live demo site is at https://ceraunodemo.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. 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: -
This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page.
(2) Or 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 a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.
So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.
You need to be aware that:
1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.
3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.
So the process you need to use is:
a. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories
b. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu
c. Add only the dynamic category page links into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus
d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content, not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages into your custom menu
https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages
and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menusPlease see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/
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Thank you, Time Thief. I will spend some more time following your instructions. What you said about why it is good for the front page to display latest posts makes perfect sense, and I would have just kept it like that. The problem I had, however, is how it displays the excerpts in this theme; it displays them like prose, not poetry; and that is why I wanted to create the static page, so I can display the poetry excerpts the way they should be displayed; and my plan was: to just keep adding poems to that page, so that it would be similar to a latest posts page–the difference being that I could have it look the way I wanted. Anyway, thanks for the time, which you stole anyway :) :) :), and the tips. Peace.
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