A 'Posts' Widget For Static Pages

  • I’ve been googling forums for two days, and all I see is complaints about this feature lacking in wordpress but absolutely no resolution for it. Requests that date back 5 years. How the hell this hasn’t been implemented within 5 years, is beyond my understanding.

    You have only these two options:
    Front Page Displays:
    1)Your Latests Posts
    2)A Static Page

    Ok… well what if I want a STATIC home page, that I can edit, modify, add widgets to, do whatever I want to, and in a container within that static home page, display my latest posts or X amount of posts?

    How is this not available? If I set Latest Posts as my home page, when I go to view the home page, there is no “EDIT PAGE” tab up top like there usually is when your viewing a regular “Page”. Why?

    Why can’t I edit my Latest Posts page? I have searched everywhere, tried creating a child theme, adding some additional PHP code. All I’ve been able to do is list links TO my posts, but not my actual posts.

    TLDR:
    I want my latest posts page to be editable, so I can add other widgets, other text, containers, images etc.

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  • You can use the Page Template feature.

    Some themes will provide you with multiple template options for your homepage, most offer none, or you can create your own and place anything you want anywhere you like if you’re conversant with writing code.

    Hope this helps.

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