Change main page but keep existing blog

  • I understand how to create a blank blog, then make any existing page the main/home page, and make the blank blog “the” blog. However my WordPress site has been runnning for awhile and I do not want to lose the existing blog, I just want it to no longer be the first page seen by a site visitor.
    The docs show how to make a blank blog, how to choose a page for the first page, and how to choose a page for the blog. However if I try this, the second step (choosing which is the blog) does not list the original main page – it appears I must lose my blog content to date.
    Please advise if there is a simple way to fix this. I want to keep the blog, but shift the emphasis of my site to a new main page.
    Thanks for your assistance.

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  • Changing to a static front page will not affect the permalinks (or inbound links) for your posts.

    Thread Starter Jim Bennett

    (@jim-bennett)

    Please read my note again. I did exactly what you implied: I changed my static front page to be other than the blog. This works. AND all the blog contents are now not visible. There seems to be no way to make the blog appear as another, non-first page.
    I tried to say, specifically, that I do not want to lose the blog as it exists to date. If I do what the documentation says, the blog vanishes. It simply is no longer visible on the site. There is no page named “the main blog” to make a blog page, there is no choice to do this.
    Please help. I want to make my site slightly more commercial but retain the blog as a side issue.
    Thanks for your insights.

    all the blog contents are now not visible

    All the blog contents will now be visible on your designated main posts page.

    Thread Starter Jim Bennett

    (@jim-bennett)

    What was not made clear in the documentation is, whatever you say is main page will acquire (dymanically) all the (existing) blog content. So I did the following:
    – created an empty page, Blog
    – made Blog the blog page
    – made the first page my existing page About
    – changed the name of About to be Main
    – deleted the image in Main and put in another one (wanted a smaller image on first page, eh>) already on the site
    – deleted the image in Blog and tried to put in another one.
    At this point I had two Main pages, and WordPress would say it had the changed the Blog image as page featured image, but it would not show up, on the Blog page. The old image stayed put on the website but not in wordpress administration.
    – fortunately, I follow Clint Eastwood’s law (A man’s got to know his limitations) and had backed the site up yesterday. Even more fortunately, my first attempt at restore (none of the resulting logs did I understand) was successful.
    I suspect a possible bug if you name another page to be Main.
    Meanwhile, it is possible to make the change I want, but I probably will not attempt it again until I understand why I could not fix the website names and images with WordPress. WordPress showed one Main, but the site showed two.
    It seems reasonable to me to have the blog on a second page; it seems reasonable to have the page that comes up first called Main.
    What have I missed here? Please advise.

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