Removing 'recent posts' from the home page

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  economicjusticeproject · Member · Feb 21, 2017 at 6:04 pm

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  Hi, I am using the free WordPress site with Ixion theme, and I’d like to find a way of removing the Recent Posts list on the home page, but don’t see a way of doing that.

  I’ve made the Home page a Static page and my posts page ‘latest news’. But recent posts still appear at the bottom.

  I have a hunch I won’t be able to change this using the free WP platform but if anyone has any tricks here, please let me know!

  The site is economicjusticeproject.wordpress.com
  Many thanks in advance.

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  nizamilputra · Member · Feb 22, 2017 at 11:34 am

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  Have you tried change the widget setting? I’m sure it can be customize by setting the widget.
  You can access your widgets from the My Sites → Customize. (You’ll see that option to the right of Themes on that menu.)

  You can read here for more detail about widget.

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  staff-loquaciousloon · Staff · Feb 22, 2017 at 2:16 pm

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  Hi @economicjusticeproject!

  The Latest News item in you footer is a widget, so you can edit it as @nizamilputra described.

  The other section (on the left, middle of the page) entitled Recent Posts can’t be removed, except with Custom CSS, part of a Premium Plan or Business Plan.

  If you were to remove it, you’d end up with a bit of an empty space – or you could make your About Us and Resources widgets really wide, which might not look as good!

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  economicjusticeproject · Member · Feb 23, 2017 at 2:14 pm

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  Hi staff-loquaciousloon

  Many thanks – yep the widget with Latest News I put there myself, hoping to get rid of the larger Recent posts section that appears in the middle of the home page, but the more i looked i realised it was probably part of that theme that i could only change with css.

  I will work around it – thanks again for responding, it was helpful!

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  aladiesheart · Member · Feb 23, 2017 at 2:54 pm

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  Hi I have chosen the ‘Dara’ design theme but my blog aladiesheart.com doesn’t have this format. the blog posts are all displayed on the front page and i would like it displayed like the theme selected. What do I do?

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  nizamilputra · Member · Feb 24, 2017 at 1:47 am

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  Hi @aladiesheart,

  All you need is changing the front-page settings. You can access it on My Sites – Customize – Static Front Page. For the details please check https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

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  staff-loquaciousloon · Staff · Feb 24, 2017 at 1:26 pm

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  @aladiesheart You can also read a bit more on how to set up your Dara site, here:
  https://wordpress.com/themes/dara

  If you get stuck, feel free to open a fresh thread with details about the problem :)
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/themes#postform