This entry was originally under my most recent ‘Write Page’ as < thebloggingpath.wordpress.com/posts > but I decided to copy and paste my thoughts to this ‘Write Post’ instead. I have created this new ‘Posts’ page because my goal was to have a ‘Home’ page as the welcome (or static) page with a link to my ‘recent posts’. But I couldn’t figure this one out for the past two days.
So after reviewing the helpful links via faq.wordpress.com regarding a ‘static page’, which could be set by the administrator via Options>Reading Options>Front page displays>A static page (select below), I came across a WordPress.com article entitled ‘Having a static page at the front of the blog’ via [http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/having-a-static-page-at-the-front-of-the-blog/]. The instructions were very straightforward and clear; yet several times in the past year since May 2007, I still couldn’t understand the concept.
So I created the ‘Home’ page on Fri., 29-Feb-2008 – 19:22 PM and today I created the ‘Posts’ page. I already changed the ‘Front page displays’ from ‘Your latest posts’ to ‘A static page (see below)’ with ‘Front page:’ set to ‘Home’. But I couldn’t find the purpose of the ‘Posts page:’ set to ‘-Select-‘. There was no success with both the faq or forum sections of WordPress and I had to figure out what ‘Posts page’ meant on my own (again).
I found out that when the newly created ‘Posts’ page is originally set as ‘Main page (no parent)’ my newly created ‘Posts’ page appears as part of the navigation bar for certain WordPress themes. So I decided to set my new ‘Posts’ page as a child page under my ‘Home’ page, which is the parent in order to see what would happen. Then with this being the important step, I navigated back to the ‘Reading’ tab under ‘Options’ section and instead of ‘-Select-‘ for the ‘Posts page’ I entered the ‘Post’ page.
My goal was completed successfully around 02:06PM. This was after I tested my new ‘Front page displays’. The ‘Static’ page’ works! I love WordPress and this is definitely my second home. Here is the biggest logo to express how fun and easy using the free service WordPress is to me:

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