mirror blog within same site

Perhaps you could just hide the widgets on post pages?

You could either use the widget logic plugin to dictate which widgets appear on which pages, or you could modify your theme to exclude the sidebar.

Hi Micah,

I have the ‘display widgets’ plugin active, but unfortunately that won’t solve the problem. See my site for what I mean. The blog is on the homepage, but I also want it on the “What We’re Reading” page.

Is there some reason you can’t use the widget logic plugin and set it to not show widget on the post pages? It seems to me that this would accomplish what you’re talking about.

Perhaps I’m not understanding you… are you suggesting I use widget logic to hide the widgets on my homepage? Because that IS my post page – and I want widgets there. Where I don’t want widgets is the “What We’re Reading” page, which is currently how it is so that part’s fine, but I ALSO want the posts on that page. Does that make sense?

I realize I can change which page my posts are posted on (eg. change it from the homepage to “What We’re Reading” page), but then they’ll no longer be on the homepage, right? Which is why I was asking how to mirror them, as I want the posts on both pages.

Let me know if I’m not making sense, I’ll try to explain differently.
Thanks,
Ed

I see. Sorry for the confusion.

What I would do is:

1. Duplicate your theme’s index.php and call it whatever you want
2. At the very top, put the following:
   

   <?php /* Template Name: What We're Reading */ ?>

3. Save your changes
4. Go to your pages subpanel, and click on “Quick Edit” for your “What We’re Reading” page
5. Select the page template you’ve just created under the “page template” dropdown

That’s it!

Micah I followed your instructions and unfortunately it’s still not mirroring the homepage blog: https://royalbookclub.com/?page_id=5

Suggestions?
Ed