Only last post on homepage and full blog in “/blog” directory

Using the WordPress Default Theme as an example.

1. In wp-content/themes/default copy pages.php to about.php
2. Edit about.php and after:

<?php edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '', '
'); ?>

add this:

<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=1'); ?>
<?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

3. Create a Page called About and write your about text, and point to about.php in the Page Template pulldown.
4. Create a Page called Blog (don’t need any content)
5. In Administration > Settings > Reading, set “Front page displays” to “A static page”, set “Front page:” to About, and set “Posts page:” to Blog.

Please review:
Stepping Into Template Tags
Stepping Into Templates
Template Hierarchy
Template Tags
query_posts()

Whoa! Thanks! You solved a lot of problems for me.

A tip for others on step #3 – You need to add the following at the top to get the “About” page to show up as an option in the Page Template Pulldown:

<?php
/*
Template Name: About
*/
?>

Thanks again,
Chris

Hi it workt for me aswell but the post on the frontpage doesnt have a link to the original post. Any ideas how to solved that?

eivind

I solved that by changeing this line
<?php the_title(); ?>

to

<h2 class="postTitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

eivind