Static Page Question

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  syoder1 · Member · Nov 8, 2008 at 3:09 pm

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  Hi:

  My blog is at http://sexistremarks.wordpress.com. This is a question about setting a static page. I’ve read the following FAQ: http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/having-a-static-page-at-the-front-of-the-blog/

  Two questions:

  1. Under “Settings,” “Reading,” “Front Page Displays,” if I choose “a static page,” why am I able to select BOTH options? That is, if it’s A static page (singular), why am I allowed to choose BOTH a front page and a posts page?

  2. I assume that the “Posts page” is my blog. If that’s so, is that the same as the “Your latest Posts” option under “Front Page displays”?

  Thanks a lot.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Nov 8, 2008 at 3:35 pm

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  When using a static front page, you have to have a place for posts – which is NOT the static front page. Perhaps you need to review the FAQ on the difference between posts and pages. http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/11/a-post-and-a-page/

  If you set your Front page to “your latest posts” then it is NOT a static page.

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  syoder1 · Member · Nov 8, 2008 at 4:31 pm

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  Thanks vivianpaige, I get it now. I had read the posts vs. page link in the FAQ. But god knows why, I thought that “static page” was synonymous with “front page,” which it’s not.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 8, 2008 at 5:21 pm

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  Unfortunately we’ve got a terminology problem with “page”, which is used in several different senses:
  1. static PAGE, i.e. what you create in Write>Page,
  2. posts PAGE, i.e. the area in which your latest posts appear,
  3. archive or category etc. PAGE: like 2, but a particular selection of posts,
  4. home/front/main PAGE, i.e. where you land if you use the main address of a blog (usually no.2, can also be no.1),
  5. splitting (a post or a page!) into several PAGES with the next-page tag…