blog excerpts help

If anyone is reading this…I have partially solved the problem but still would like to know if what I want to achieve is possible.

I made a category “blog” that is representing what I want to show up as the blog page. https://danielpaymar.com/category/blog

basically i want to figure out how I can eliminate having to have the directory going through “category” to get to the main blog page for my site.

Checkout https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates and look at section “A Page of Posts” this should be what you are looking for.

I had already created a page template. I added and tweaked the code in the codex referenced “A page of posts” but it’s still not showing anything.

All right, I got it working but the formatting is all messed up, posts are appearing outside of the left column. Any idea why that would be?

For what i can see there is an additional </div> that closes the left content after the first post. Can you please paste here your page template so i can check it?

This is the template I’m using for the blog page:

<?php
/*
Template Name: category
*/
?>
<?php
get_header();
?>

<!-- Begin #colLeft -->
		<div id="colLeft">
			<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args= array(
	'category_name' => 'Blog', // Change these category SLUGS to suit your use.
	'paged' => $paged
);
query_posts($args);
if( have_posts() ) :?>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

		<div class="postItem">
				<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
				<div class="meta">
							<?php the_time('M j, Y') ?> &nbsp;&nbsp;//&nbsp;&nbsp; by <span class="author"><?php the_author_link(); ?></span> &nbsp;&nbsp;//&nbsp;&nbsp;  <?php the_category(', ') ?>  &nbsp;//&nbsp;  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment ', '% Comments'); ?>
						</div><!-- END META -->

				<?php the_excerpt() ?>

                    	<div class="postTags"><?php the_tags(); ?></div> <?php comments_template(); ?>
			</div><!-- END POST TAGS -->

		<?php comments_template(); ?>
	</div><!-- END OF POST ITEM -->
		<?php endwhile; else: ?>

		<p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>

	<?php endif; ?>

</div><!-- END LEFT COL -->

<div id="colRight"></div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>	

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thanks for checking it

Try to remove this:

</div><!-- END POST TAGS -->

Yeah, that did it. Thanks a lot for double checking and the help.

cheers