Posts on wrong page

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  serenity8623 · Member · Feb 24, 2016 at 6:06 pm

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  I have restored my posts, and they all went onto my ‘home’ pageinstead of my ‘blog’ page. I don’t actually have a ‘home’ page in my WP admin, yet its going thewre on my site. How do I move my posts to my ‘Blog’ page and delete ‘home’ page.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 24, 2016 at 6:07 pm

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  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 you create and designate as a front 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 and category sub-pages 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 in the order that you wish them to appear in https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content that rarely changes like About, Copyright, Contact Info, etc. , not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages for static content that rarely changes 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 in the order that you wish them that you wish them to appear in https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  Please see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/

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  timethief · Member · Feb 24, 2016 at 6:10 pm

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  I don’t actually have a ‘home’ page in my WP admin

  True but by default, the URL of any site is the front page of the site like this * http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/ unless we change it.

  re: creating a static front 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.

  There must be a page for all posts published in the blog to display on. 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.

  To do that create two static pages first
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change there
  A static page (select below)
  Front page:
  Posts page:
  Then click “save changes”.

  The guide is here http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/