Static front page not showing
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Hi, I’m trying to set a static front page for my blog using the Sketch theme. I’ve followed the instructions and created a Home page and a Posts page. I have the “static front page” setting checked for the Home page in Settings/Reading and also in Customize. But the home page still just shows my most recent projects. What am I missing?
My blog is tinadonvito.wordpress.com
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If you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, and know that static front pages can be traffic killers, 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 pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/A static page (select below)
Front page:
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This is for my writing portfolio so I don’t care so much about traffic – I just want it to look pretty for prospective editors :)
Those are the instructions I followed. What is happening is that “static page” is showing my recent portfolio projects instead of the page I created called “Home.” When I change it to show recent posts, I do see my most recent post (which is actually just a test post since I’m only doing portfolio projects).
I switched to Twenty-ten theme and it is showing the “Home” page, which is correct.
I don’t understand why it’s showing recent portfolio projects instead of the Home page when I have the Home page set as “static page.”
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This is for my writing portfolio so I don’t care so much about traffic – I just want it to look pretty for prospective editors :)
Those are the instructions I followed. What is happening is that “static page” is showing my recent portfolio projects instead of the page I created called “Home.” When I change it to show recent posts, I do see my most recent post (which is actually just a test post since I’m only doing portfolio projects).
I switched to Twenty-ten theme and it is showing the “Home” page, which is correct.
I don’t understand why it’s showing recent portfolio projects instead of the Home page when I have the Home page set as “static page.”
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I think I sort of figured out my problem – I wasn’t understanding that by setting the Home page as a ‘portfolio page template’ that meant that all my portfolio projects will show on the Home page in the order that I create them. This is not really what I want because every time I add a new project the Home page will change; thus defeating the purpose of having a static front page.
What I really want is to have certain portfolio projects appear on the Home page and stay that way. I’m not sure how to do this?
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