Change to Static Home Page & Separate Blog page

  • Have a website where i need to put in a blog page with posts (currently does not exist) and understand I need to change our current home page to a static page (aka “Home”) and create a new page called “blog”. My concerns before doing so are:
    1) If I make a new page called “home” how does that change what people click on in a Google search. So when I go into “Settings > Reading” and change the home page to a static page called “Home” and set the blog page to new page called “blog”, if Google expects “abc.com” when it is now “abc.com/home”, will users get a 404 page or will WordPress thru its permalinks automatically fix this. Do NOT want to create a problem. How do I address this point?
    2) The blog page I created does not display the featured image I uploaded. All the other page work fine. Is there a blog.php in the Editor that I need to paste code into? All the other pages display thier featured image fine (I realize they are driven from the page.php). So how do I message the blog page to recognized the featured image??

    Thank you in advance!!

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  • 1. When you set the Front Page, the chosen Page becomes the home page. It’s URL will the root of the site abc.com

    2. This is theme dependent. Please ask the provider of your theme this. But, yes, that URL will be abc.com/blog (in your example of using a slug of blog with permalinks set to postname)

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