By default WordPress displays your content in a blog format on the homepage. But what if you want to create a custom homepage in WordPress? Where does your blog page go? In this article, we will show you how to create a separate page for blog posts in WordPress.
Video Tutorial
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Using Default Static and Blog Page Settings in WordPress
WordPress comes with built-in support for creating a custom home page (static front page), and a separate page for blog posts. To use this method, you need to create two new WordPress pages. The first page is going to be your custom home page. In your WordPress admin, go to Pages » Add New to create a new page. You can title this page Home. On the right hand side, you will see Page Attributes box with an option to choose a template.
Most modern WordPress themes come with custom page templates that can be used for the static front page of your website. In this example we are using the Twenty Twelve theme which comes with a front page template. After choosing the template, the next thing you need to do is to click on screen options at the top right corner of the screen and check the discussion box.
This will display discussion meta box below the post edit area. Uncheck both comments and trackbacks to disable discussion on the home page.
Next you need to create another page for your blog posts. You can title this page as Blog. A lot of WordPress themes come with different templates, and it is possible that your theme may have a template to be used for blog page. However, if there is no template available in your theme, then you can simply choose default. Don’t forget to disable the comments and trackbacks option on this page as well.
What we have done here is created two pages which we will use to display a custom homepage and a page for blog posts. Now we need to get WordPress to use these pages accordingly. To do that go to Setttings » Reading and under the Front page displays option choose A static page. Below that choose the page to be used as the front page and the page for your blog posts.
Save your changes, and load your site to review changes. You may want to display the blog page in your navigation menus. To do that go to Appearance » Menus and add blog page to your menu.
We hope this article helped you create a custom page for blog posts in WordPress. For feedback and questions please leave us a comment or reach us on twitter @WPBeginner.
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/
Excellent article! Very helpful.
Can I create a static home page and multiple post blogs. For example: I have various menu items, and would like to place my blogs on each of the sub menu items. Just to keep separate topics.
Thanks again
If the posts are in their own categories, you could add the category itself to the menu for WordPress to generate a blog page for that specific category: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-add-navigation-menu-in-wordpress-beginners-guide/
Hi there,
I have managed to create a blog page with the posts displaying.
However, I don’t want to re-create my home page as it already has content on it.
The posts are still showing at the bottom of my existing home page.. if that makes sense!
Regards,
Tom
Your specific theme may display the posts there by default, if you reach out to your specific theme’s support they can let you know if that is a built-in option you can change.
Hey! I really need help with creating my own “I NEED HELP WITH…” section that you have on your site on your sidebar. Hope you will be able to assist. Thank you so much!!
We manually created that widget, you can use inspect element to see how the widget is set up: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/basics-of-inspect-element-with-your-wordpress-site/
Hello,
What could be the reason for my website not loading videos or images on static front page? Could it be the theme I use?
I have done all the steps above and uploaded a picture in the contect of my home page, but it only shows the text (not even borders or any place where the picture should appear). When I make the same page to appear as a standard page (not front one) and to be reached through the menu, it loads perfectly together with the image. Same happens when I try it with embeded video.
You may want to try following the steps in our troubleshooting article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-to-troubleshooting-wordpress-errors-step-by-step/
to see if you can find the likely culprit for the error.
Hi,
I am trying to create a separate page which I can communicate to prospective subscribers to subscribe.
Unable to do that. Tried to use mailchimp but the code it generates does not work after I create a new page.
I already have a subscribe widget – but I want to be able to send a link for a page that only has the subscribe option – to make it easier for people to spot the subscribe (it appears way down below in the mobile app right now)
Please help!
Thanks
Shiwani
If your MailChimp code is being removed from the page then your site may be on WordPress.com: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/self-hosted-wordpress-org-vs-free-wordpress-com-infograph/
Hi
Is it possible to display posts BOTH on the homepage and on another blog page (in the same manner)? I tried copy-pasting PHP code, but that doesn’t seem to work.
It would depend on your specific theme if there is a built-in template you could use. Otherwise you could use the shortcode method in our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-display-recent-posts-in-wordpress/
Its good for me that my posts on Serbian language show up on home page, but i need page to publish my posts on English, do we have solution for that?
For that, you would want to take a look at our multilingual article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-easily-create-a-multilingual-wordpress-site/
Is it possible to have your home page be a grid layout and your blog page be all your posts one after the other? I am looking for a “landing” page to be in grid format and I have the Content Views plugin and the shortcode for it. I am just looking for where to put that shortcode. Thanks.
It is possible, you would set a specific page as your blog page and the page you set as your home page would be where you place the code for the grid.
Hi, could you please tell why if I hit Preview button on the Blog Posts assigned page – it redirects you to some sort of weired URL, like
/?preview_id=7&preview_nonce=dbffd0676e&_thumbnail_id=-1&preview=true
And if I hit for the second time it shows eventually the correct URL of the Page – /blog
Thanks in advance
The first is when WordPress is saving your current version of the post as a revision because you clicked preview and the second time is pulling from the revision rather than creating a new one
Great post. I was looking for this. Thanks a lot.
You’re welcome
This is very helpful.
But can you please let me know how to have blog posts on my home page and a specific blog page also?
You could force create a blog page using: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-display-recent-posts-in-wordpress/
while still having your homepage list your most recent posts
But how do you create a blog page WITHOUT making your home page static?
In that scenario, your home page would be your blog page. You could add your categories in your menu to have the categories list the posts on the generated pages in that scenario.
This helped me a lot with my confusion. Thank you.
You’re welcome
That was the best, most concise video I’ve ever seen. Saved me a crap-load of time,
Thanks so much!!!
You’re welcome
Hi, can you please tell me why my blog posts go to the main page, and that main page is not shown as a page in the WP control panel? I mean my posts are posted on the homepage. But when I go to the pages tab, my posts are not shown, and nothing is shown as home page.
After this article I know I can create a new page called homepage and direct all my posts there, but I’m curious as to why the above thing happens.
Also, is there any harm to the site if I don’t use that default homepage scene altogether?
WordPress will by default create a home page based on your theme’s styling that you cannot directly edit which lists your newest posts. You can create a new page for your home page and set that page under Settings > Reading without any issue.
If you wanted to list posts on other pages, you would normally add a link to the specific category to your menu for WordPress to generate the page for you or manually add the links to your posts.
Nice tutorial, just what needed! Many thanks
You’re welcome
I want a theme to show Govement Schemes. But i am unable to find a good theme so please guide me
You may want to look into multipurpose themes depending on how you want your site set up: https://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/best-wordpress-multi-purpose-themes/
Thank you very much. I am not a techie, and setting up my site has been very difficult for me, but I am finding that with patience I can get there! I like the way that you had both the video and written explanations here.
You’re welcome, glad you found our content helpful
This article is great !Thank you for sharing!
I do have an opposite situation. I want to move several blog posts from the Blog page to a page called articles. What is the best way to do it?
You could add those posts to a category and link to the category in your menu, then remove the posts from the blog page using: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-exclude-a-category-from-your-wordpress-homepage/
Hello! I have the opposite issue….I do not want a static home page, but when I change my homepage settings as “Your Latest Posts” my blog page is empty when one clicks on “Blog” in the Menus.
I had it working but must have tweaked something and lost it.
When you set the home page to show your posts, your home page becomes your blog page. You could add categories to your menu to list posts in that specific category similar to the blog page.
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