As usual what I do when I don’t know what I’m doing I’ll start by clicking through all the options. \u00a0I wanted a page so I started in WordPresses Page tab. \u00a0I made a new page however<\/strong>\u00a0it had no options to configure it so it did not seam possible.<\/p>\n Try 2<\/strong><\/p>\n If at first you do not succeed .. turn to google. \u00a0After a search I found this page<\/a>. \u00a0I didn’t feel like watching the video so I just followed the text instructions. \u00a0However<\/strong>, it directed me back to the page tab that I’d just been at. \u00a0I assume that at some point wordpress has changed how to do this. \u00a0What I did learn was that it should be possible to do what I wanted and it’s functionality built into work press.<\/p>\n Try 3<\/strong><\/p>\n With the renewed knowledge that what I wanted to do is possible I went back to my default behavior and started to click though options. \u00a0Something in the article had mentioned that most themes support this so I wondered if maybe it was in the theme setting. \u00a0Sure enough under Appearance ->Themes->Customize-Static Front Page I found what I was looking for. \u00a0A place to set both what I wanted as the front page and where I wanted my blog post to appear. \u00a0In “post” pull down menu was a list of all my pages. \u00a0I went and created a new page for the posts\u00a0and then came back and assigned it. \u00a0Up next I needed to add the page to my default menus and I was all done.<\/p>\n Got It!<\/strong><\/p>\n As an aside I’m pretty sure this is the same place that I turned off the dynamic front page to start with. \u00a0Isn’t it funny how our brains work. \u00a0At the time I had no need for the post portion so while I’m sure I read the option it was not important to me at the time so I just forgot all about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I decided that I wanted a static front page for this site (I’m not sure that’s the right decision but we are going to try it for a while). \u00a0So when I set up the site I managed to get it configured the way I wanted. \u00a0A few day later I decided that I also … Continue reading Static Home Page and Blog page<\/span> ![\"Setting](\"\/\/confusedlot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/staticPage-277x300.png\")
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