[Support request] Home page as landing page layout and separate blog page with masonry blog layout

[Judi]

I’d like my home page to look like a landing page/sale funnel and have a separate page for masonry listing of blog posts. I’ve found documentation in support that indicates using a blog template (in page attributes). I do not have a templates dropdown field. How can I accomplish this separate blog page?

[Leo]

Hi there,

Not exactly sure if I understand.

Sounds like you just need a static front page and a separate posts page?
https://wordpress.org/support/article/settings-reading-screen/

Then you can use the customizer settings to make it masonry:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/using-columns-in-the-blog/
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/blog-overview/

Let me know if this helps 🙂

[Judi]

I’m sorry that I wasn’t clear in my explanation. Yes, the front page will be static and I will set the Posts page to the page that I want to create. Below are examples of the layout that I would like to use, if possible. (Sorry that I didn’t include them in my first message.)

Front Static Page https://www.businessboutique.com/
Posts Page https://www.businessboutique.com/articles/

[Leo]

So what specific issues are you running into?

Let me know 🙂

[Judi]

I think I figured it out. I needed to use the shortcode ( [wp_show_posts id=”790″] ) to pull in the posts. (I only have 1 post right now. So I’m not sure if it is correct.) How can I customize it so each post has a shadow effect like on this page: https://www.businessboutique.com/articles/?

[Leo]

Hmm if you only want to display blog posts on one page?

Why not just using the posts page instead of WP Show Posts?

Am I missing something here?

[Judi]

What/where is the postings page?

(I apologize. I haven’t used WP and GP for years. Things have changed.)

[David]

Hi there,

the setting to choose a page as your blog is in Dashboard > Settings > Reading.

[Judi]

Hi David. I understand where to set the page for my Posts page.

Maybe I’m making this more complicated than it needs to be. Let me rephrase what I need:

I want to have a static Front Page and a separate page for Posts. What is the best way to create the posts page? I want to create a posts page that uses masonry-style list (versus the old single column, descending order style). I have never created a Posts page.

I’ve referred to the GeneratePress documentation. It doesn’t give definitive instructions.

Or maybe this is not specific to GP and I need to look at WordPress’ documentation?

[Leo]

Simply create a new page with the name Blog (or whatever you want), then assign that page to be the posts page under the settings we’ve mentioned:
https://wordpress.org/support/article/settings-reading-screen/

And yes this is handled by WordPress 🙂

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