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WordPress: Open On A Static Page/Link To Post Page

Here's a question for Wordpress gurus.

Someone wants to setup a WordPress blog to function more like a website, so they set a static page as the main page, like this:

They click the Options tab, then the Reading tab ....

 

Then under Reading Options -> Front Page -> Front page displays, they select a static page, and then they click Update Options,

 

Okayfine.  But suppose they then want to create a navigation link to their blog posts.

What does the URL to access blog posts become??  I have tried a number of variations, and haven't come up with the answer.

I could probably create another page with the WordPress loop code on it.... but it seems to me there should be a simpler solution.    OK ... Archives ,,, maybe????

Anyone??

14 comments • Cheryl Johnson • February 13 2008 06:50AM

Comments

Thanks for your tip.  I think it is great.
Posted by Renee Stengel, Westchester County (Houlihan Lawrence, Associate Broker) over 4 years ago
I don't have an answer for you Cheryl. I'm just parking to read what everyone else has to say about it.  I wonder if its in Word Press for Dummies.
Posted by Chris Elizabeth Griffith ~ Bonita Springs Fl Real Estate (Downing-Frye Realty, Bonita Springs, FL) over 4 years ago
Well, I'm parked and hope someone can answer this. I had to do a link to my search homes, and I wanted to frame it. 
Posted by Missy Caulk-Ann Arbor-Realtor® Ann Arbor Real Estate (Keller Williams-Ann Arbor) over 4 years ago
Create your HOME page first then go back and make the Static page the HOME page.  ;)
Posted by Bob Carney Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent (Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.) over 4 years ago

Bob ... But then, what is the URL for someone to view  the old original home page with the blog posts??....

(One obvious solution:  Use a magazine style theme like Revolution - that creates a whole separate blog folder -- Like Daniel R has done with  http://realestatezebra.com/ )

 

I 'spose I could cough up the $79, download Revolution and start playing with it.  Just think of all the tutuorial material ~there~!!!!!

Posted by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA over 4 years ago

Then you create a "Blog" page and set it to the Post page under the Static page setting on the "Reading" setting.  THe URLs follow the orginal format of the blog.  

Example home pages = http://lnfsample.wordpress.com/

Blog post = http://lnfsample.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/testing-a-second-post/

Page post = http://lnfsample.wordpress.com/buyers-page/  


 

Posted by Bob Carney Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent (Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.) over 4 years ago

Sorry to tell you this Bob, but your links don't work.  :-)

So, how do you create the "blog page" ? I tried pasting the WP loop code into a page, code view, but it only displayed as text -- won't execute and call up the blog posts.

Posted by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA over 4 years ago
eek!
Posted by Chris Elizabeth Griffith ~ Bonita Springs Fl Real Estate (Downing-Frye Realty, Bonita Springs, FL) over 4 years ago
Just create a blank page with the title "blog"  and then on the "reading" section point the post page to Blog.  It will link the blog to that.
Posted by Bob Carney Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent (Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.) over 4 years ago

Bob ..... Ahhhh soooooo.   Excellent!!!  Thank you!!!!

 

 

Posted by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA over 4 years ago
LOL queen of Kludge.  ;)
Posted by Bob Carney Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent (Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.) over 4 years ago
Cheryl - I was totally lost in the lobbing posts until your last one with page copies and big red circles. Thanks.
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