Static Front Page with Latest Posts Page

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  craigmckee · Member · Nov 18, 2016 at 10:59 am

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  I want a static front page which I have but I would like the “Recent Blogs” page at the top to display thumbnails for the blogs like it would it I had set the site to have Latest Posts as my front page.

  Is this possible? If so, how would I do it?

  Thank you!

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  timethief · Member · Nov 19, 2016 at 12:21 am

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  What’s possible is what the theme is designed to do and that is found here https://wordpress.com/themes/twentysixteen/

  This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
  (1) All posts on the front page. By default that is the URL of the site.

  (2) A static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different 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.

  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. Create your pages first
  Front page:
  Posts page:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  After you do that you go to > Dashboard > 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:
  Posts page:

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  craigmckee · Member · Nov 19, 2016 at 6:06 am

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  Hi TimeThief,

  Thank you for taking the time to reply. It looks like I cannot achieve what I want then. I just thought I might be able to have a static front page but a blog page too on the menu that had thumb nails of recent posts.

  Thank you for the clarification though, appreciated.