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danielisreading on "Sticky posts NOT on the front page?"

danielisreading — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:41:56 +0000

In the future you should really create a new thread, since this one is related, but it's a different issue, otherwise you're really hijacking this thread...

I believe you can make the wordpress address link directly to the static page if you go to Appearance -> Customise -> Front page, and choose the static page you want on the Front page.

Then using the Custom Menus (Appearance -> Menus) you can choose which pages you want to show up and in what order. If you want your posts to go onto the page 'blogs', then you will have to really put them all in one category, and then using the menus 'menu', add a category tab.

You should probably check out the custom menu support page here: en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

You might also want to take a look at Justpi's (Panos) posts about these topics:
Custom Menus: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/
Posts on Pages: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/

tfwinsd on "Sticky posts NOT on the front page?"

tfwinsd — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:31:53 +0000

I am trying to create a static front page that people will see when clicking on my wordpress address. Right now, my "home page" is a blank static page but clicking the picture above it shows my blogs (and takes me to the origional address) I want the next pg. 2 be "about me" and the 3rd my plog enteries. I've been playing around with it for days but can't seem to figure it out!

1: How to I make my wordpress address link directly to the static "home" page?

2. How do I link my blogs from the homepage to the 3rd menue, "blogs"??

theeditinggirl on "Sticky posts NOT on the front page?"

theeditinggirl — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:03:27 +0000

Thank you! I was able to figure it out! Yay! I found where it said "make it a sticky post" and what threw me off was that until I published it I couldn't tell if it had worked the way I wanted it to. Thanks!!!

danielisreading on "Sticky posts NOT on the front page?"

danielisreading — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:45:37 +0000

Yes you can do that, just click on edit next to the post visibility of the post you want stickied and click the option that says stick this to the front page, see here for more on them http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts

theeditinggirl on "Sticky posts NOT on the front page?"

theeditinggirl — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:07:36 +0000

Is it possible to have "sticky posts"/ static posts not on the front page? I have been messing around with my blog and have already made a home "Welcome!" page, and a following page with my posts all there. What I'm wondering is if you can make a POST not a page, static, like one that stays at the top of my second page while the others fall after it? Is that possible?

timethief on "Oxygen theme posts to Facebook page???"

timethief — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:30:46 +0000

Also note that Publicize can only be used to auto-post Posts, not Pages.

Oxygen Theme Description http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/oxygen Live demo site http://oxygendemo.wordpress.com/

In Oxygen you can either have a Home page that displays your posts or a static front page ie. a Showcase template. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/#setting-up-a-static-front-page

Showcase page template
When you first activate Oxygen, you’ll see your posts in a traditional blog format but if you’d like to showcase your content in an online magazine-like fashion, then you can use the Showcase Page template. ...

Post thumbnails are 470 pixels wide, unless you make the post Sticky to show off in the featured slider, in which case they’re 750 pixels wide. Keep in mind: if you mark a post as Sticky but the featured image is less than 750 pixels wide, then it won’t display in the slider and will still disappear from the river of posts.
Please be aware that you cannot crop the sticky post thumbnails.

Sticky post thumbnails are 750 pixels wide in the featured slider
Regular post thumbnails are 470 pixels wide
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts
Oxygen
http://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/#setting-a-featured-image

If you don't see the page attributes module then make sure that you don't have it hidden in your screen options http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/
Modules to unhide:
Post – Likes and Shares, Format*, Categories, Tags, Excerpt, Send Trackbacks, Discussion, Comments**, Slug, Author, Revisions, Writing Helper
Page – Likes and Shares, Page Attributes, Featured Image, Discussion, Comments**, Page Revisions, Slug, Author, Revisions, Writing Helper

timethief on "Oxygen theme posts to Facebook page???"

timethief — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:29:21 +0000

Posts are Pages are completely different. Posts cannot be added to the featured post slider because they aren't Posts. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
For more on the differences > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/05/12/better-blogging-at-wordpress-com-pages-and-posts/

stevenscorer on "Oxygen theme posts to Facebook page???"

stevenscorer — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:49:14 +0000

Hello

My Oxygen themed Blog is ready.... need to add some actual posts but that will come with time.

My problem is that my posts won't be added to my Facebook page as they are "Static" and apparently static posts aren't added to Facebook. So Until I move my posts off the slider my Facebook page won't have any posts and then by the time I take them off "static" and are finally posted to my Facebook wall it will be way behind where I actually am.

I'm hoping I'm way off the mark and have done something wrong.

Please help.

timethief on "itheme2 front page sticky post with feature image"

timethief — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:39:42 +0000

Please read the information at these links:
iTheme 2 theme description > http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/itheme2/
iTheme 2 live demo site > http://itheme2demo.wordpress.com/
iTheme2 forum threads > http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/itheme2

blondflicka on "itheme2 front page sticky post with feature image"

blondflicka — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:34:13 +0000

I thought that itheme2 allowed for a banner of posts to run across the top of the home page and would show posts that are sticky and that have a feature image. Then, a post page could be chosen that would be sticky and static and serve as the home page. Then no other (unstick) posts would appear on the front page.

timethief on "itheme2 front page sticky post with feature image"

timethief — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:49:10 +0000

What' you describe is that your blog is working correctly. Sticky posts are stuck to the top of the main page of the blog ie. to the running page for posts. There is only one running page for posts in a blog and all other posts appear below the sticky post in reverse chronological order. The only way not to have the posts display on the front page of the blog is to create a static front page and apparently that's what you have done.

Pages are static. They sit outside of the blog structure and you cannot post to multiple pages in any blog. There is only one main page for posts in a blog and all posts will show on the main blog page. There is no way to exclude posts from the main posts (blog) page.

What’s critical is:
(1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
(2) a clear comprehension of the fact that there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page. We organize posts by assigning categories to them. You can either put the categories widget into the sidebar, or you can create a custom menu and add the categories into the custom menu.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/

http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/

http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages-to-your-menu

If you do not want all the posts to show on the main page, then you can create a static front page for your site. If you wish, you can also create a “blog” page, but you do not have to if you do not want to.

Choice 1 static front page.
Choice 2 running page for all posts on front page.
It’s one or the other. There are no other choices.
If you choose Choice 1 static front page then you have to create two pages. One for the static front page which you can call anything you choose example “Welcome”, and one for the blog posts to appear on which you can call anything you choose example “Blog”. Adter your do that you go here . Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

blondflicka on "itheme2 front page sticky post with feature image"

blondflicka — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:26:15 +0000

I have chosen a sticky post with feature image to be my homepage so as to have the banner of posts across the top. The problem is that each time I post a new post it also appears on my home page below the static post. I am not sure why. I only want the one sticky post to appear (as well as the banner).

Does that one static post that I have chosen to be the front page need to have its own category?

In Settings>Reading I chose static front page - posts page - News. (Although News is not the name of my static post but seems to be the only choice that isn't a Page).

Any ideas?

auxclass on "static post"

auxclass — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:05:58 +0000

Try a sticky Post: http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts

lockeporter on "static post"

lockeporter — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:40:55 +0000

Hi I am wondering about making a post stay up on the top of all posts even if I add a new post?...I have a donate button on my site and want to leave a little blurb at the top about making a donation...any suggestions? Thanks Julie

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jhornor on ""Static Posts" directing to "Home""

jhornor — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:38:19 +0000

Check my site for an example: http://jpmgmt.com

Note that the "Blog" link in the nav bar just directs back to home.

I have gone to Dashboard -> Settings -> Reading and selected "Front page displays a static page." The front page is "Home" and the posts page is "Blogs."

But when I click on the "Blogs" link in the nav bar it just goes to the home page.

What am I missing here?

Thanks for your help!