Do you want to create a separate page for blog posts in WordPress? By default, WordPress displays your blog posts on the homepage.
However, if you are making a business website or simply want to customize your homepage, then you may want a separate page for your blog section.
In this article, we will show you how to easily create a separate page for blog posts in WordPress.
Video Tutorial
If you’d prefer written instructions, just keep reading.
Setup WordPress to Create a Separate Blog Page
WordPress allows you to easily configure your website to have a custom home page. This feature also allows you to choose any other page on your website to be used as your blog page.
First, you need to create two pages in WordPress that you would like to use as your homepage and blog page.
You don’t need to add any content to those pages, and you can even name them anything else if you want. For instance, some business websites use News for their blog page.
Once you have created those pages, you can head over to the Settings » Reading page in the WordPress admin area.
Under the ‘Your homepage displays’ section, you need to click on the ‘ A static page’ option. After that, you can select the home and blog pages you created earlier.
You can now go to Pages » All Pages section in admin area. You’ll notice your blog and homepage with new labels. Go ahead, and click on the View link under those pages to preview them.
The appearance of these pages depends on your WordPress theme, and you may need to configure your theme settings.
Since each WordPress theme has different options, you’ll have to check out your theme’s documentation or check the options under Appearance » Customize page.
We’ll also show you other methods later in this article.
Put The Blog Page Link to Your Website’s Navigation Menu
Now that you have created a separate blog page let’s help your website visitors find that.
Simply visit the Appearance » Menus page and add the Blog page you created earlier to your website’s navigation menu.
For more detailed instructions, see our beginner’s guide to navigation menus in WordPress.
Customizing Your Homepage
By default, many WordPress themes come with a built-in template to display a static page as your website’s front page. However, you’ll still need to set it up under Appearance » Customize.
Some WordPress themes also allow you to choose a homepage template for your page. If your theme comes with such a template, then you can select it by editing the Home page.
Finally, you can use a WordPress page builder plugin to use simple drag and tools to create your homepage from scratch.
We recommend using Beaver Builder as it is the best WordPress WordPress page builder plugin on the market. It is super-easy to use, includes ready-made templates, and super-flexible to create any layout you want.
For more details, see our tutorial on how to create a how to create a custom home page in WordPress.
Customize Your Blog Page Design
By default, WordPress automatically looks for a template in your WordPress theme to display posts on a separate blog page.
If your theme does not have one, then it automatically falls back to the archive template. For more details, see our guide on the WordPress template hierarchy.
Now, if you don’t like how your theme handles your blog page, then you can change that using some extra tools and without writing any code.
First, you will need to install and activate the Beaver Builder and Beaver Themer plugins. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Beaver Themer is an add-on plugin for Beaver Builder and enables you to not just create pages but entire new WordPress themes from scratch.
First, you need to visit Beaver Builder » Themer Layouts page and click on the Add New button.
From here you can provide a name for your layout, select ‘Themer Layout’ as your type, and then select Archive as your layout.
This will create a themer layout for the archive templates. On the next screen, you need to select ‘Post Archive’ for location option and then click on the ‘Launch Beaver Builder’ button.
This will open the Beaver Builder with your selected layout. You can simply point and click at any item on the screen and start editing it. You can also add new rows, columns, and web elements to the page.
For more details, see our guide on how to create a custom WordPress theme (without coding).
Once you are finished editing, you can simply publish your layout. After that, visit your blog page to see it in action.
We hope this article helped you create a separate page for blog posts in WordPress. You may also want to see our guide on how to increase blog traffic and our list of must have WordPress plugins.
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Very helpful! Thanks a lot for making it easy for me!
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Hello!
I added pages on my website (like FOOD, BEACHES, TRAVEL ABROAD) but I can not transfer my blog posts from HOME (the default setting) to each individual page and make it like HOME too. Please help me with this. Thanks so much.
You would want to add a category to your menu if you’re wanting all of the posts from a specific category to appear on a page.
How will I do that?
You would want to take a look at our article below for the specifics:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-add-navigation-menu-in-wordpress-beginners-guide/
Hi, I want to customize my blog post index page. I’ve got a different home page so i did the static page thing which worked, but the feature image on the blog index page is enormous and I’d like to reduce it. I don’t know how to reduce it. If I add the beaver builder, will this interfere with the fact I am using the Astra theme?
Using beaver builder should not cause a problem
Hi There,
I need your favour & I got something to ask about.
I have a list of Top Menu, with HOME, ABOUT, BLOG (with sub-menus Articles, Listing) and CONTACT menu.
I want to allow my Author to write in to the sub-menus Articles, Listing page, instead of writing into HOME, how can I set it?
Thank you in advanced.
If you limit the author to posting in that specific category you can then limit that category from appearing on your home page following our guide below:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-hide-a-post-from-home-page-in-wordpress/
Hello, I use my Blog posts as my main page currently and don’t have a home page.
Under Pages I have ‘Home’ (inactive), ‘About’ and ‘Contact’.
Is there a way i can create a ‘Blog’ page that will simply link to main page (which is my blog posts). i don’t wish to have a home page
For what you’re wanting, you would want to modify the title of your link in your menu instead of creating a brand new page
Hi,
I created the blog page as you suggested so that I can create a static page. I like it! However, I don’t know if it’s because of a plugin that I’ve since deleted, or not, but my single blog posts aren’t showing my logo and menu. They show on the static page and on any menu page when I click on it, but they’re missing on the actual single blog posts. My blog’s title is the first thing you see at the top of the page. I need help figuring this out. Do you have any idea why?
We would recommend first checking the support for your specific theme as there are many different theme designs and yours may not add that for single posts.
Is this applicable if my plan is a personal plan? Because I dont see the option of ‘reading’
It should still be an option in the settings in your wp-admin area. For the moment our tutorials are for self hosted versions of WordPress and you can see a comparison of the two here:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/self-hosted-wordpress-org-vs-free-wordpress-com-infograph/
Thanks for good job!
You’re welcome
If I have a blog that currently uses the default option of posts going to the front page, and I have three+ years of blog posts, can I still create and publish two pages (HOME and BLOG), select them in the dashboard correctly and have this work as described? Or is it too late if you’ve already gone down the default path?
Yes, you can change to having a static home page and a blog page at any point in and it would still work
Is it necessary to select a static page as a blog page in the Reading settings? Will it affect my SEO in any way if I were to leave that blank?
If you leave it blank then you would not have a page that lists your posts which would affect your SEO if your content is heavily based on posts.
If I’ve already been posting my blog posts to my home page and want to create a blog page how do I transfer the blog posts over? Will simply creating a new page called “blog” do that automatically?
No, you would need to set the posts page in your settings for it to list your posts like a blog. If you want the recent posts on a second page, you would want to check with the support for your currently active theme for if that is available.
This is really helpful and educative
Thank you, glad our article could be helpful
This is indeed so helpful.
Glad our guide was helpful
I Know i am missing something simple. I have a website and have followed the instruction on how to set up a blog page. However the blog page says “Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!” great except that I can’t seem to delete it. What am I doing wrong?
You’re not doing something wrong, that is the default WordPress post, you should be able to log into your wp-admin area and in the Posts area is where you would delete the post
In my wordpress page to assign a custom template to page there is no template option in page attributes
You would want to check your options in the editor that the template area is not hidden. If you are in the block editor you would find the option under the three verticle dots in your editor.
Thanks for the tutorial. I’ve set up a blog page for recent blogs but I cannot show the entire blog for the most recent blog. Seems I can only show excerpts and lists of recent blogs which link to their pages. How can I show the entire most recent blog post PLUS the links to previous blogs?
That would be determined by your theme. If you reach out to your theme’s support they should be able to let you know what customizations are available
Help – I followed the instructions in the video but now my new blog page displays my home page! Why would this be happening? I also have Elementor on my site
help!!!!!
Did you set both to be the same page? Your theme may also have a setting for displaying your posts on your home page so you may want to check with your theme’s support or try swapping themes to see if that resolves the error.
i have Homepage, musics page, Videos page, and so on. how can i post videos post on videos page and post musics on musics page and all the post in music and videos pages will still appear in homepage and also in video and music page.
For that, rather than creating pages it may be best to use WordPress’ default category pages by adding them to the menu and WordPress will list the posts in that category on the category page. We have an article showing how to add the categories to you menu here:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-add-navigation-menu-in-wordpress-beginners-guide/
Hi, i have been spending hours to learn how to add a blog to my exisitng wordpress site but nothing seems to work. A brief of my wordpress site. Our homepage consists of multiple post serving as ‘NEWS’ so not allowing any comments. We now want to add a blog to one of our menu items, anyone can help? Thanks
If you are already using your posts for a different option than your blog then you would need to use either a subdomain or create a custom post type. You may want to take a look at our article here:
http://wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-custom-post-types-in-wordpress/
Hello WP Beginner,
I built a site a couple of years ago with no intention of ever adding a blog. Now I’d like to add one. Originally I built the home page “latest post” not a “static” page. Retrospectively I can clearly see the error of my ways. Is there an easy method to change things now?
I keep coming back to the conclusion I need to build the blog on a subdomain.
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you, Jim R
If you want to keep your home page the same while adding a blog page you could use a plugin like the shortcode plugin we recommend in our article here:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-display-recent-posts-in-wordpress/
I want to ad a blog page displaying 5-10 of our latest posts per page but I don’t want to lose my current home page displaying our latest posts. I’d like to be able to maintain my current categoried formal posts/articles while adding a section of running blog posts. Can I have my cake and eat it too or am o asking too much?
You would likely want to take a look at the plugin from our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-display-recent-posts-in-wordpress/
for what it sounds like you want.
Thank you! This was very useful and easy to understand.
You’re welcome, glad our article could be helpful
hope you doing well!
is it possible to create separates page for all separate blogs? i create a website like trip adviser know i want that my all blogs related to hotels show on hotel page and blogs related to trip packages show on package pages
and suggest me a good theme for free because this is my starting
For what it sounds like you’re wanting, you could create category pages to separate your content. You would add the category to your menu to get the url for the category page as we show in our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-add-navigation-menu-in-wordpress-beginners-guide/
Totally saved my butt after two hours poking around and not knowing what I had broken. Thanks!
Glad our guide could help
I watched the tutorial and did what it said. Nothing appears when I click the Blog item on my menu. Where can I go for help?
You would want to ensure the blog item in your menu is linking to the page you set as your posts page, you have posts published, and you cleared your cache for the most common reasons for nothing appearing.
Hi there, I am new to WP with the free plan.
I cannot find the “Dahsboard>Appearance> Menu> ” and my screen environment is totally different from yours. Is it only available for those paid users?
Thanks, Kennix
Our tutorials are for WordPress.org sites, you can see the differences here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/self-hosted-wordpress-org-vs-free-wordpress-com-infograph/
If you wanted a similar look to the admin area on your site then there should be a menu item to go to your wp-admin area
Thanks, Team.
It has worked great for me!
Glad our article could help
I have a blog page on my business website, but the appearance is very basic. How do I style it? Is there any good blog page template available that I can reuse?
I understand basic coding of wordpress, but not a designer.
You would normally style using CSS or you could take a look into other theme options if you want a different look for that page.
I’m adding a blog to our existing word page site, doing pages > add new > title: blog> save preview okay see it looks good – and publish going to settings > readings > static page> post page > blog. And then my blog page shows up blank even if I add post they don’t appear there. What am I doing wrong…?
As long as the posts page was saved it sounds like you’ve set it up correctly, you may want to try clearing your cache and reaching out to your theme’s support to see if they are overriding the posts page for some reason
Unfortunately, this did not solve my solution. I thought maybe something snapped n my website, because all of a sudden my posts are not showing on my blog page (my home page data is showing on the blog page as well as my Home (static) page)…any thoughts??
You may want to go through our troubleshooting steps to see if this could be due to a plugin or your theme: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-to-troubleshooting-wordpress-errors-step-by-step/
These instructions seem to be for a business account with WordPress. Is there a way to accomplish this with a “Blogger” plan?
Our tutorials are for WordPress.org sites not WordPress.com, you should be able to go to your wp-admin area to have a similar interface but for a comparison of com vs org you would want to take a look at our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/self-hosted-wordpress-org-vs-free-wordpress-com-infograph/
How Can I Make Money With A Free Blog
It would depend on what kind of free blog but you could use some of the suggestions from our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/make-money-online/
How can I edit the page that displays my blog posts? For example, I’d like to add an intro section which says “Our collection of articles detailing how we do things inside the studio” but WordPress doesn’t allow me to do that.
You would want to first check with your theme’s support to see if there is a built-in method to do that as some themes have that option and others don’t
thanks for the tutor . But please now that I have created the blog how do I give it a separate menu different from what’s on my website? hope it’s possible ? I want to create a link (menu) in the blog that can take viewers back to my website and menus that contain contents of my blog.
really need your help . thanks
If you would like a different menu for only your blog page you could use: https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-add-conditional-logic-to-menus-in-wordpress/
I’ve followed your instructions which were really helpful. There’s something I want to change though. On the ‘blog’ page, the main heading has become ‘[title of first blog post]’. I actually want it to be ‘blog’. I can’t figure out how to change it. Thanks!
If it is not using the page’s title then your theme likely is styled to use the post’s title which means you would need to reach out to your theme’s support and they would be able to assist.
Thank you for this excellent and easy to follow tutorial!
Now I have my Blog Page up, but there’s no option to go to my other Blog posts (that I’m able to create in Dashboard> Posts> Add new).
I only see my navigation menu and the blog I wrote.
How do I edit this Blog Page? (I’m using Elementor Page builder / Astra Theme for the rest of my website, but can’t edit my blog page in elementor)
Thank you in advance!
If setting your blog page this way isn’t showing with elementor then you likely want to reach out to elementor to ensure there isn’t an elementor specific issue you’re running into.
Hi, thank you so much for this! How can I make it so that blog posts have permalinks like: domain.com/blog/post? It seems like the permalinks options apply to both posts and pages—and I don’t want things like domain.com/blog/about :-/
Thanks!
For customizing your permalinks, you may want to take a look at our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-custom-permalinks-in-wordpress/
Thanks, you would not believe how hard it was to find this information. It is so simple and yet I could not figure it out. Now that I feel so bad, thanks very much for fixing this frustrating issue!
Glad our guide could help
really
thank you very much
You’re welcome
Huh? I don’t find anything called Settings>Reading – ? My settings are just general info about site and management team.
Please advise – thanks!
If you are an admin of your site, you may want to ensure you are in the wp-admin area of your site and under settings on the left-hand menu there isn’t a reading section when you are looking at the general settings
Great article, however, I have a recipe page and a blog page and currently my recipe page is displaying all posts (recipes + blogs) and my blog page is also displaying all posts (recipes + blogs). I want to separate these so that my recipe index page only displays recipe posts and my blog page only displays blog/article posts. How would I be able to do this?
Thanks in advance!
If they are in categories then you can add the category to your menu, that way when someone clicks the category link it will only show the posts in a specific category.
I only want to have a specific set of menu items (blog and recipes are two of them)…I don’t want to add another menu item. Isn’t there a way to have my blog page on the menu and only include blog posts while my recipe menu item only include recipes?
Yes, the menu item would be the category and work like you are saying. For clarification, you may want to take a look at our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-add-navigation-menu-in-wordpress-beginners-guide/
This is very helpful, thanks.
I have a static homepage with a button link to the posts page, but that page is showing all the posts in full rather than a summary with a featured image, even though I’ve clicked ‘for each article in feed show summary only’ (as opposed to full text).
Not sure what I’m doing wrong here.
Thanks for your help.
You may want to reach out to the support for your specific theme to ensure they don’t have a setting that could be overriding the excerpts
This video was very helpful and easy to follow. You solved my problem in minutes. Thank you!
Glad our guide could help
Hi, I am trying to figure out how to add multiple posts to multiple different pages. I need a few different blog posts per page and cannot for the life of me figure out how to do so, please help!!
If the posts are in certain categories you could either add the category itself to the menu for WordPress to generate a page listing the posts in the category or use a plugin such as the one in our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-list-category-posts-in-a-wordpress-post-or-page-with-shortcode/
Thank you team.
You’re welcome
HELP
I did everything stated in the instructions to set up a blog page, with a static web home page and I am getting a page showing parent.
I have been trying to figure this out and have hit a brick wall.
Thank you in advance
You may want to check if in your site’s files there is a folder named blog that needs to be removed. For viewing your files you can use FTP: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-use-ftp-to-upload-files-to-wordpress-for-beginners/
This post is very helpfull.
Thank you, glad it was helpful
hello. My blog page is showing just about 3 of my recent posts. How do i get all of my posts to appear on the blog page or a scroll down button to get access to older posts. Thanks
For what you’re wanting, you would want to take a look at our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-change-the-number-of-posts-displayed-on-your-blog-page/