Static homepage?

debba
September 30, 2011 at 2:43 am #1852

I am completely new at coding and am having a hard time creating a static homepage, I’ve looked at the WordPress Codex and understand that I need to create a “Home” page and a “Posts” page, and have done so accordingly.

How do I get my posts to show up on my static home page? I can’t seem to figure it out.

Thanks,

D

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Syahir Hakim
October 1, 2011 at 2:51 am #17358

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How do I get my posts to show up on my static home page? I can’t seem to figure it out.

Posts do not show up in the static home page. The page you selected to be the static home page will be displayed instead. That’s what it means by “static” home page. It doesn’t change as you write new posts, etc.

Blazing Truth
October 6, 2011 at 5:39 pm #17359

Ok, so if I want there to be 2 sidebars on my home page, with my posts in the middle…and then only one sidebar on the posts page… how would I go about accomplishing that?

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Kenneth John Odle
October 6, 2011 at 9:14 pm #17360

Don’t use a static home page, and you will have what you want.

But if you want to have some static text followed by your blog posts, use the “Homepage Panes” option in Graphene options. That’s what I do with my blog.

Ken

Blazing Truth
October 9, 2011 at 5:00 pm #17361

It looks like managed to get rid of the sidebars on my posts page, keeping them only on the homepage…but I have no idea how to expand the width of my single posts to fit the whole screen, rather than half of the screen.

here’s a sample of what i’m talking about:

homepage with 2 sidebars: http://www.blazingtruth.com

single post with no sidebars: http://www.blazingtruth.com/austrian-economics/

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Kenneth John Odle
October 9, 2011 at 5:24 pm #17362

Did you activate the alternate frontpage widgets option?

Blazing Truth
October 9, 2011 at 5:25 pm #17363

Yes

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Kenneth John Odle
October 9, 2011 at 5:59 pm #17364

Then that’s why your post is narrow. It’s waiting for you put some widgets in there.

There’s not a workaround that I’m aware of. Either you get widgets on all your posts or none.

Blazing Truth
October 11, 2011 at 3:30 pm #17365

There’s no way to stretch that width to fit the page?