How to create a blog page in WordPress?

WordPress sites gained their initial popularity among bloggers due to their ease of use and installation. WordPress started life as a blogging platform and by default displays your blog posts on the home page. However, if you are building a business website you will definitely want a separate page for the blog section. In this article, we will show you how to create a blog page for blog posts in WordPress .

How to create a blog page?

WordPress allows you to easily configure your site to have a custom homepage. This feature also allows you to select or create another page on the site to be used as a blog page.

The first thing you need to do is create a separate page on the site that you will use as a blog page. You can name this page whatever you want. For example, we named the blog page News & Stories on our website.

In the Reading settings section ( Your homepage displays ), you need to click on the Static page option. After that you can select the home page and the blog page you created earlier. Under Posts page , select the page you created as a blog page. Now all your articles will be published on the selected page.

You can now go to Pages » All Pages in the admin panel. You will notice your blog and homepage with new tags. Click the View link below the page name to view it. The appearance of the pages depends on your WordPress theme and you may need to configure the theme settings.

Adding a blog link to the menu

Put a link to the blog page in the navigation menu of your site. Once you’ve created a separate blog page, help your site visitors find it easily. By selecting the Appearance » Menu option, you get the option to add the blog page you created earlier to the navigation menu.

If you have a static page, you may also want to create a list of recent posts to add to that page. This way, people can still access your recent posts from your homepage or any other site page, as well as by going to the blog page. The solution to this is to add a widget.

By selecting the Appearance»Widgets option, you open the option of adding an adequate widget to the site. Find the Recent Articles widget on the left side of the screen and drag it to the appropriate place on the right side. Name it whatever you want and choose the number of articles to display.

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