Wordpress: Setup a static front page and a posts page
Friday, January 18th, 2008In WordPress Administration under Options->Reading, there is an option to set a “Front page” and “Posts page.” The front page setting is fairly straightforward. If you do not want your latest blog posts (index.php) as your homepage, you can set a static page and its template as the root page (http://www.example.com/). This is great for an under construction page, too.
Posts Page
What is a post page? If you have disabled the default homepage (explained?Ǭ† above) and made it a static template page, then where are your latest posts? They are on this page.
1) Create a page (Write>Write Page) and make the “Page Slug” on the sidebar whatever URL slug you want to be the location of your posts. I recommend making it be the same as your custom structure (Options>Permalinks, e.g. - “blog” as in “/blog/%postname%/”).
2) Go to this Options->Reading and in the drop down box for “Posts Page” you can now choose your newly created page (e.g.- “Blog”).
The contents of this page (i.e.- “Blog”) will never really be accessible. Now if the user goes to “http://www.example.com/blog” then they will see the latest posts instead of an error.