[Support request] placing my blog nicely on the main page/homepage

[Peter]

This is the site I am building: http://78s.b5b.myftpupload.com/

Note how I placed the blog under the slider using on the homepage and it looks terrible (no pictures are appearing and the text has lost all formatting).

What I would like is for my blog to appear on my main page/homepage under slide like this:

http://78s.b5b.myftpupload.com/blog/

Could you please tell me how to make this happen 🙂

[Peter]

I have been experimenting with Settings > Reading.

I think what I am trying to do is have a static homepage with “your latest posts” on that static homepage, under the slider, exactly as they appear here: http://78s.b5b.myftpupload.com/blog/

Can you all please let me know how to do that?

Thanks.

[Tom]

I would place “your latest posts” on a static page.

Then I would add the slider to that page using hooks or a page header. Better yet, I would use the new Elements module in GPP 1.7: https://generatepress.com/gp-premium-1-7/

[Peter]

Thank you Tom. Sorry to be a pain, but could you explain to me how to place my latest posts on a static page? Are you saying I should create a static page called blog or something and I can make posts on the static page? I am not sure how to get posts to show up on a static page.

Thanks.

[Tom]

Hi Peter,

That’s correct.

1. Create a new page and name it “Blog” – you can keep the content empty.
2. Go to “Settings > Reading” and set the “Front Page Displays” option to “A static page”.

That will allow you to choose a static page for your front page, and a static page for your posts page (blog).

That’s where you’d select your newly created “Blog” page.

[Peter]

Thank you. So to be clear, one I move all my posts (I only have three) over the static page, then I delete my current blog page which is not static?

Will I have any problems by having a static blog page? Is there any reason to avoid that?

[Tom]

It’s all standard WordPress functionality, so nothing bad will happen. Your posts will exist as they do now, but they’ll live on that static page instead of the home page 🙂

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