Unable to make my Home page my front page

  • Unknown's avatar
    pressboxjournal · Member ·

    I am wondering how you make a Home page your front page. I want my Home page to display my latest posts. When I go to my website, it shows up, but when I click “Home” on the menu bar, it goes away. How can I change this?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • Unknown's avatar
    timethief · Member ·

    The best guide for working with your Twenty Eleven theme is found here https://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/workings-of-duster/

    You have two choices on any blog
    (1) All posts on the front page.
    (2) A static front page and 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 will not be happy to have to click through an About page every time they visit your blog as they come to read your most recently published content. Creating that situation can make some visitors annoyed – so annoyed that they stop following your blog.

    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 all published posts (not pages) to display on in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top.

    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 for each of the two page and click “save changes”.
    A static page (select below)
    Front page:
    Posts page:

    The guide for creating a static front page is here http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

  • Unknown's avatar
    timethief · Member ·

    P.S. Please post only one thread for any issue. I can see multple threads you created on the same issue here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/pressboxjournal and have tagged this thread for Staff to close them.

  • Unknown's avatar
    chrisrudzki · Member ·

    @pressboxjournal:

    When I visit https://pressboxjournal.wordpress.com, I can see your latest posts.

    However, when I click the menu item that you called “Home”, I’m taken to a page that you created, and titled “Home”.

    There’s no need to create such a page if you only want to display your recent posts on your home page.

    At this point, I’d recommend that you delete the page you titled “Home”, and remove that item from your menu.

    Then, if you want to add a link to your home page in your menu, you should add a “link” and use your homepage’s URL (https://pressboxjournal.wordpress.com). Learn more about using custom menus here:

    Menus

  • The topic ‘Unable to make my Home page my front page’ is closed to new replies.