Static Page and Linking to Recent Articles
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Hello. I’m using the “Elegant Grunge” theme on my WordPress site. I want to set up a Static Page and include a link that will update to show the latest article.
I know how to set up the Static Page in Settings, but I’m having trouble getting the link to work. I’ve seen a few people who posted PHP code for something like this, but when I put it in a page it literally appears as lines of code. Is there a way to enable PHP, or create this link another way?
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Static Pages and dynamic Category Pages are not the same. The former cannot automatically update but the latter can and do.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/If you want to have pages that do update then they must be dynamic category pages that will automatically update every time you publish a post assigned to the relevant category.
By default the front page of the blog is the post that displays all posts in your blog. Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.
We organize posts by assigning categories to them.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/You can create a custom menu and add the dynamic categories pages into the custom menu.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
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Whoa. That’s all very confusing. I think I might have used the wrong words there to describe what I meant. I’m still pretty new at this so bear with me..
Okay, so I think the first step is: Create a Page and put it as the first thing ppl see when they visit my WordPress. How do I do this?
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Aha! How do create a static front 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, and know that static front pages are 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:
Posts page:
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