Cannot make blog home page work

Oh and meanwhile, when I add a generic page from the pages editor, it does get assigned to the pages template. And I can add content to the page. But the content doesn’t show up when I navigate to the page. Example: https://lily4boe.com/meet-lily

The new page also does not show up in the menu bar.

Sorry, this is a heavily edited post, as (I think) I previously misunderstood what you meant by “Blog Home” ??

You’ve already configured a static page for your homepage.

To use the Twenty Twenty-Theree theme’s “Blog Home” template to display your latest posts, go to SETTINGS => READING. This is where you previously configured a page to be used as your site’s homepage. Now under “Posts page”, select your “Blog” page you created earlier.

WordPress will now use the “Blog Home” template to display this page, ignoring the page’s own content and custom template.

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by George Appiah.

@gappiah … so I did that (thanks) but I’m still having a problem with the blog template. In my template list I have Blog Home, which is the template that I want to use. And I also have Blog (Alternative), which is the one that got selected when I followed your instructions: it is apparently, the default that links to the posts page, as it was the one automatically chosen by the software and I was not given another choice. There was only a single option for blog.

I cannot delete the Blog (Alternative) template and don’t know if I can rename it, either. I don’t see how I can link to the template that I want.

Blog (Alternative) shows at the top of the screen as the template for the blog page. It is not correctly formatted.

The Blog Home template shows at the top of the screen when editing for that template is chosen. It is correctly formatted. But it does not appear as the linked template for the blog page. I know I’m being repetitive but I want to make sure I’m saying all of this right.

Has a method been developed yet for removing unwanted templates from the templates list?

Say, is there an easy way to upload a picture from my desktop to this post?

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by kimijye.
• This reply was modified 1 year ago by kimijye.

OK so, I’ve rebuilt my home page for about the 30th time. This time, all of the information I wish to display is showing. But some of it is showing twice – and although the duplicate content is similar, it is not precisely the same.

I assume that my front page template is pulling in some of the content, and that the post page content block is pulling in the rest of it. But for the Love of God I do not know how to figure out where each bit of content is coming from and how to get rid of the extra foto and column blocks.

@gappiah been wanting to circle back and thank you for explaining in detail the procedure for setting a posts page. I’m having other issues but at least I can cross this challenge off my list. Thank you so much!