Wordpress website - setting up blog

Geuze · 11-01-2021 2:49pm #1

I help to manage a website, which operates on Wordpress.

I am trying to understand and manage the blog posts.

I am an amateur at these matters.

What I want is the word Blog in the navigation menu, and if that is clicked, I want a list of blog posts to appear, with author/date/tags, etc.

At the moment, a normal Page is used, and when time passes, and another blogpost is to be added, new text is simply added above the existing text on that Page.

So the list of blogposts is really just blocks of text.

The Add Posts feature is not used.

I have looked at some video tutorials, and I am learning more.

I have gone into Settings>Reading, and I think I understand the static pages.

There is a static Posts page, okay, and I can see that Page in the list of Pages.

But how are new blogposts added to that Page?

Thanks.

Graham · 12-01-2021 2:39am

Pretty straightforward, this tutorial looks like it covers exactly what you're looking for Geuze: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-a-separate-page-for-blog-posts-in-wordpress/

Quick version:

Create a page named Blog

In Settings>Reading, set Posts Page>Blog

New posts should appear on the blog page automagically.

Add the Blog page to the menu/s.

Geuze · 12-01-2021 7:46pm

Thank you.

(1) I have checked the Settings>Reading, and the homepage displays as follows:

A static page:
Homepage: page called <Home>
Posts page: page called <Blog (main page)>

That seems ok so far.

(2) In the list of Pages, there is a Page called:

Blog (main page) - Posts Page

(3) in the Appearances>Menus, I have added the Page called <Blog (main page)> to the menu, and it appears on the live navigation menu fine.

So the menu is fine.

BUT
when I click on the Blog (main page) in the menu, what actually appears is the homepage.

Where do I actually create the posts? If I look in Posts>All Posts, there are short blogposts that I have published, but they don't appear anywhere?

pnecilcaser · 16-01-2021 11:42pm

Are you sure you have created and set a static page as the homepage? can we get a link to look at it please?

Geuze · 19-01-2021 1:12pm

Under Settings>Reading, yes for sure, I can see that A static page is selected.

Now, underneath A static page there are two to be selected:

A static page (select below)

Homepage: Home
Posts page: Blog (mainpage)

Both have selections, is that correct?

FionMc · 28-02-2021 9:17pm

in your editor where you wrote the blog post, there' a thing there that you can add to the blog posts that tells Wordpress where in the text the snippet should end. you'll need to add this to every post. I would suggest adding at the end of the first paragraph

Wordpress website - setting up blog

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