Newbie question about static pages

  • Resolved jcyl29

    (@jcyl29)


    16 years ago

    Currently my index.php file is of a typical nature — it has the wp loop, and, a side bar with category links, etc. I do not want this to be my main page, though. Instead, I want a static page to be the front page–it won’t have any blog posts. So I took the html page that I wanted to use, replaced some of elements with the specific wordpress ones such as bloginfo, blogdescription, stylesheet, etc, and I also declared the page a template. Then I went to add pages from the dasbboard, used the template, created a page called ‘frontpage’ with no content. Then from the dasbboard I went the readings setting and made this page the front page. My question is, how do I get the URL to access the blog option of my site? I.e. i have my static frontpage, which has a navbar, and I want to edit the static page so I have a link to the blog page. What is the url for that?

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  • stvwlf

    (@stvwlf)

    Not sure I follow what you are saying. If you installed WP in a folder called /wp/ then your frontpage URL is
    https://mydomain.com/wp/

    When you make a static front page you have to create a different page for the blog posts. So make a page called Blog, and in Settings/Reading set your Posts Page to Blog. The url for the blog page will then be https://mydomain.com/wp/blog/

    Is that what you are asking for?

    Thread Starter jcyl29

    (@jcyl29)

    yes, basically, thanks

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