HELP, posts are showing up on my front page

  • I have set up a site, TelluriudeBlog.com. I have the options set for a static front page. and the posts are to go to the top of the page called “Some Background”
    However when we got our first post and we published it it showed up at the top of the Home page. We don’t want that, that is not how we set the options up, but it is what happened…
    so what do you suggest we do, we want the front page to be totally static as far as the contents of the page go as they expalin the purpose of the blog etc.
    Thanks up front to those that post here and respond to this
    Stu Jones

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  • Thread Starter kardworx

    (@kardworx)

    How would that affect it?

    To create a static page do the following:
    1. create a page with the slug Home and give it whatever title you want (for example Welcome) and fill this page with the content you want to appear on the front page
    2. create a page called Weblog with the slug weblog
    3. in admin panel > options > reading set page Welcome as your front page and page Weblog as your posts page
    4. if you like you can create your own template file for either the posts page or the front page to create the look and appearance you want

    It’s not that hard at all.

    @rove from the site it looks like kardworx has things sorted, so I’m going to risk hijacking this thread; re-direct me as required.

    The page I want folk to land on (FrontPage aka Home) already exists, so I skipped your step 1.

    A little quibble with your step 2: when you write “a page called …”, you mean “titled”; its nice when what we see matches the instructions. (Easy for you? Very glad to hear it. But I’m dealing with frustration/confusion just ATM.)

    Things work immediately but break down right away.

    On bentrem.wordpress.com I had Blog, About, and Page3. I created a page titled Blog Posts. In Options > Reading I selected Static, set FrontPage to “About”, set PostsPage to “Blog Posts”, and viewed the site.

    Goodness: Home defaulted to About. Goodness: BlogPosts displayed posts. Goodness: Page3 is happily blithe.
    But then *Whaaduh’aey?!* I see that there’s that 4th tab … the original “Blog” tab remains.

    A new tab was created for BlogPosts; fine.
    No damage that “About” still has it’s own tab, since in this test case things are a little confounded.
    But this 4th one? That’s the sorta brain-damage stuff I diss other people’s work.

    Doesn’t matter what things are called, you still end up with 2 tabs pointing to the same spot. (For my money pages should never point to themselves, so this is actually doubly wrong, but I won’t go there. Not right now.)

    The same is true about karworx’s https://tellurideblog.com/ but on his/her site it isn’t so painfully obvious since his links are in the sidebar.

    RFE?
    Whatever page is set as Static FrontPage should have itself removed from the listed pages.

    Default all pages you create show up in your navigation until you hide them. There’s an option to exclude pages, you have to edit some template files for that. Don’t know if that’s possible on a wordpress-blog. I have my own server so i’m not familiar with blogs hosted on wordpress.com.

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