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Wordpress blog not on our homepage?

by mustard76
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We have an existing WordPress website. The homepage is a static "page" not a blog. We would like to keep our existing static homepage and setup a blog on a different page on the site.

Can anyone suggest how to do this?

I am a PHP programmer, so I can change the theme as necessary.

Just to be clear our homepage (IANA — Example domains) is static.

We want our blog to live here: IANA — Example domains

We'd like to do this with one WordPress installation.
#blog #homepage #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
    Create an empty page with the title 'Blog' and then on your Settings > Reading screen select that page from the drop down menu as your 'Posts page'.

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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    • Profile picture of the author KyleGolemMedia
      Originally Posted by Abledragon View Post

      Create an empty page with the title 'Blog' and then on your Settings > Reading screen select that page from the drop down menu as your 'Posts page'.

      Cheers,

      Martin.
      Martin's method is what I would do.
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      • Profile picture of the author ChristiN
        Hi mustard76,

        For keeping things organized, I would recommend creating a subdomain or subdirectory for your blog. This would allow you to install WordPress inside a separate directory so the WordPress files wouldn't be mixed in with your other site files. You could then link to that subdomain/subdirectory from your main site.
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        • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
          Originally Posted by ChristiN View Post

          Hi mustard76,

          For keeping things organized, I would recommend creating a subdomain or subdirectory for your blog. This would allow you to install WordPress inside a separate directory so the WordPress files wouldn't be mixed in with your other site files. You could then link to that subdomain/subdirectory from your main site.
          You either didn't read the OP or you have no idea how the static frontpage + posts page feature works.

          What you suggested is absolutely NOT necessary:
          - the OP doesn't have "other files"
          - the OP already set up a frontpage
          - using the method described by Martin above will create a "virtual" subdirectory: /blog/
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  • Profile picture of the author hanandaner
    what martin has suggested should work... have you tried it.. ? what was your experience ?
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