"Posts page" doesn't show on Front page
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Hello,
I am new to worpress. I have the Sela theme. I managed to assign a static front page. However, the ‘Posts page’ I have chosen to display my blog posts on the front page does NOT appear (but in the theme demo it does)… Can anybody help me on that one?
Thanks!
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Aaah ok then I don’t know how to do what I wanted to do… I would like to have a static page (which is done) but on that same page I would like the last 3 blog for example to be visible (as presented on the theme page: https://wordpress.com/themes/sela/). Any idea of how to do that? Same for the widget presented on the theme page.
Thank you and sorry for all these questions.
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The Sela demo doesn’t actually show the latest three posts – it shows three grid child pages. You can read more about Sela setup here:
https://wordpress.com/themes/sela/
There isn’t an automated way in Sela to pull in the latest three posts dynamically, unless you use a widget like:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/recent-posts-widget/
Let me know if that will do the trick.
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Hello Kathryn!! I’ve had a bit of trouble… The only way that worked more or less is by adding a text widget and the following code “[display-posts include_excerpt="true" image_size="thumbnail" wrapper="div"]“. However, the result is not what I am looking for. I would like it to be as in the demo (= front page template with three grid child pages below, set the same way next to one another and not like what I have now.). I’ve tried with the recent posts widget and it only shows the title “Recent posts”, nothing else…
Sorry I’m pretty new to all of this!Thanks so much for your time and help.
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It’s looking good!
As I mentioned, the theme isn’t designed to display the latest posts in the way you’re looking for – only child pages are displayed that way.
With some custom CSS, you might be able to make some adjustments to the posts in the text widget to get them looking more like what you have in mind. I see that you don’t have the upgrade currently, but if you’d like to go ahead with it, you could then get some help with the necessary code over in the CSS Customization forum:
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No, because the child pages have to be pages, not posts. :-)
You could display a single post in three text widgets using the display posts shortcode, but they wouldn’t update dynamically, you’d need to change the ID number of each post every time you publish a new post, so it’s not very practical.
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Thank you for your enlightening help! Just one question (hopefully last one but who knows…!), Thank you for your enlightening help. I mentioned above, I added a text widget and the following code “[display-posts include_excerpt="true" image_size="thumbnail" wrapper="div"]“. Is there a code that enables me to show only the three last post instead of all of them?
Kind regards.
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Another question sorry… Any code that enables me to show my last three posts and only their titles? (not the text)?
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Found a way!! It just doesn’t show the pictures of my publications but it’s better than before (I am getting there!!!). :)
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Looking good! Instead of the Recent Posts widget you could try the Display WordPress Posts widget instead – it’s similar but you can include the featured image with this one:
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