Homepage policy: How to regulate what shows on your homepage

Hi pcoan,

You should easily be able to keep posts off of the home page by designating a “page” to be set as your homepage.

For further assistance with this, please see: Creating a Static Front Page

The more important information will be located in the section 2 labeled, “Go to Administration > Settings > Reading panel.”.

Thanks,

– Brad

Create a page for your home page. Then go to the Settings area in the WordPress dashboard and click the reading link in the navbar on the left.

Now select the page you just created as your homepage under “Front page displays” and choose static. Press Save settings.

This page will now be used as your home page.

Alright! Thank you!

You’ll also want to make a page for your blog posts and set that as your posts page in settings->reading

Now that I go to follow your instructions, I’m not sure that I have the options you’re providing:
After creating a new page, I go to the dashboard. I’m not able to locate a “reading link” or “reading” link on the sidebar/navbar. My options on the side are: Dashboard, Posts, Media, Links, Pages, Comments, Profile and Tools.

It looks like I don’t have complete access to my dashboard.

I highly recommend a plugin called WP HIDE POST. I use this all the time. You can prevent certain posts from showing up on certain pages. It’s great.