How do I stop posts from displaying on the home page?

You need to make a new page, don’t put anything in the body of it, just have the title of the new page be whatever you want your blog page name to be (ex: BLOG).

From the Dashboard go to SETTINGS then READING. Under Reading select the second option, “A Static Page”

Make the FRONT page be whatever you titled the static page of information…mine is an introductory page about me and the site. Then select “blog” (or whatever you made that new page title for your blog) for the second option, POSTS.

This allows you to have a static first page with whatever information you choose to have, but have your blog show up under a different page on the site.

Hello,

Thank you for you suggestion SxyVixen. I did think of that option. However, all I want to do is stop posts from displaying on the front page. I still would like information like the sidebar widgets to appear on the home page. I just dont want any posts to display.

I tried several plugins like Advanced Catergoy Excluder, Simply Exclude, and Front Page Exclude Categories but they all has some undesirable affect or limitation. For instance, the Simply Exclude was very nice but it not only removed posts but also the sidebar widget for Categories. Advanced Category Excluder only adds and removes from the sidebar as far as I can tell.

I am afraid that this one will require some coding. Do you know what page contains the famous LOOP?

My page is at https://www.delaflor.com. If you scroll all the way down you will the posts I dont want to display.

(WP 2.7, iNove Theme)

Mike

I’m not sure what you mean when you say to scroll all the way down to see the posts you don’t want to appear. There are many posts on the main page?

Have you tried this:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/163057?replies=5

I did it!

I was able to stop any posts from displaying on the home or front by simply removing the php tags that called in the posts in the index.php page for the theme. I was able to keep my widgets just fine. Yahoo! My first code edit and it worked.

Now I woudld like to create a page that displays the catagories and any posts in each catagory. I am using WP to organize my articles and tutorials not so much as a blog though people can leave comments on the articles.

Wohoo! I sure feels good to figure something out after days of being frustrated.

Mike

That’s one of my fav things about web design… making things do what I want them to ??

Hi Mike,

I have been having the same problem. My site is https://www.appheritage.com, and I have a static page and have a separate page for my blog. Most of my site is comprised of static pages with the exception of the one page called Blog. The problem I have is the same as you, when the comments link is clicked it takes you to the front page.

Your post says “I was able to stop any posts from displaying on the home or front by simply removing the php tags that called in the posts in the index.php page for the theme.”

I am also using the iNove theme, and am trying to find the lines of code you are talking about. Is it this code:

if (function_exists(‘wp_list_comments’)) {
add_filter(‘get_comments_number’, ‘comment_count’, 0);
}

or this one:

<span class=”comments”><?php comments_popup_link(__(‘No comments’, ‘inove’), __(‘1 comment’, ‘inove’), __(‘% comments’, ‘inove’), ”, __(‘Comments off’, ‘inove’)); ?></span>

…or both?

I tried removing both and it still goes back to the home page for the comments.

By the way, you have a great looking site… very nice look to it.

Craig