Reading Settings: latest post vs. fixed page
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I’m encountering an issue with how my blog is read. I want a visitor to see a static home page but the main page is not one of the available option in the drop down menu from which to choose a fixed page. What to do? Also, I can’t find a way to actually add content to the main page (other than the default blog roll). What am I missing? I appreciate your insights…
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A static page is one that never changes. For example, you could set as a static page you events page. Pages are not designed to be posted to. Your main page (the 1st home page you have – I mentioned in your other thread that you actually have 2 home pages) is your posting page.
Perhaps you should take a look at the difference between a page & a post as explained in this FAQ http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/11/a-post-and-a-page/
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I do get the difference. The problem is that there’s no way to alter the content of the main page that I can see… it’s a blog roll. And, there’s no way to designate the home page as the static landing page.
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No, the main page is your blog. That’s where all the new Posts go. The blog roll is a different, static page. Your static pages are:
* Real Estate
o Why Vashon?
o For Sale
o Buyers
o Sellers
o Home Loans
* Events
* Subscribe
* Contact
Everything, literally everything else, is a post, which goes on your main page. -
So there’s no way to have the main page be static (as all other
‘pages’ are)… it’s always a blog roll? Is that true of all blogs or is it theme specific? Thanks -
It’s not a blog roll. By definition, a blog roll is a list of links to other sites. What you are calling “a blog roll” is actually the posts page. And no, that page is never static. It is dynamic, in that it is constantly changing. That is simply the way blogs work. Blogs are NOT websites, where most of the content is static.
If you want a static page, raincoaster has given you all of the pages that you have on your blog. Choose one of them.
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I don’t quite know what you mean by ‘the main page’.
If you want the page that visitors first see when they come to your site to be static, then you can set it to be any one of your pages EXCEPT your dynamic blog page (because then that won’t be static!). This means that when someone puts your goes to XXX.wordpress.com they will see the static page. This could be your ‘main page’, normally called your home page.
You could then set the updating blog page to be called something like ‘News’ or ‘Updates’. If you actually don’t want a dynamic page at all, that’s fine. Just stick one post on it and then never update it!
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