No need for archives….yet

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  duidance · Member · Feb 17, 2011 at 5:20 am

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  I have only seven posts since I began my blog last September. The first two posts have gone to archive. I’d really like to have all the post titles with their links out of archive and listed in the posts frame. How can I move the archived posts into view on the homepage with the other more recent ones?

  Are posts automatically moved to archive after a certain period of time?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Feb 17, 2011 at 6:10 am

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  You have set a static front page (home), and you have not even defined a “blog” page (settings > reading). That means your posts will only show up on either the archives pages, or on the categories page.

  If you want your posts to show on your front page, you have to go back to settings > reading and undo the static front page setting and set things back to where your main page is your “posts” page.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Feb 17, 2011 at 6:12 am

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  Another suggestion: By not categorizing your posts, and leaving them set as “uncategorized” you do not show up on the wordpress global tags pages which will severely limit your search engine page rank. You need to categorize your posts under something other than “uncategorized.”

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 17, 2011 at 6:12 am

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  Dashboard >> Settings >> Reading >> Change “Blog pages show at most” to a number you like better to be displayed on the front page.

  Archive is sort of a fake thing anyway – all Posts are the same – the only difference is how they are displayed – “Archived” Posts are just as easy to get out of the database as the most recent.

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 17, 2011 at 6:15 am

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  Hi @TSP – I knew I should have looked at their site – your answer is much better than mine – but if they ever go back to Post based system them they can look at my sort of answer. Oh well –

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  duidance · Member · Feb 17, 2011 at 8:20 am

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  I appreciate the point in the right direction. I poked around in the settings earlier tonight before posting here and left dismayed at the severe level of my amateur blog configuration. Couldn’t figure out how to categorize the site, no less understand the lingo. Sad sad sad.

  I’ll fix things soon, or at least try.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Feb 17, 2011 at 8:24 am

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  You know where we are if you run into troubles.