Adding a blog?

  • zacnin

    (@zacnin)


    16 years, 2 months ago

    So I think this is a simple question – I built out a site using the Pages function on wordpress (http://intensitynutrition.com). Now I want to add a blog portion to the site using the posts and am not sure exactly how I do that. I didn’t create the theme, so don’t know if I need a blog.php setting?

    I know this is a simple questions, I just don’t know the answer. Thanks in advance for the help.

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  • jrav001

    (@jrav001)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    Adding a blog should be really easy, you just need to know how your theme designer set things up for you.

    Have a look at this page (don’t make any changes yet!): http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
    Item #2 will show you where to look so you can see how your designer has set things up.

    Then go to “Pages” on your admin panel and look to see if there is one named “Home”. If so, look on the right side under “Attributes” and see if there is “Template” being used.

    If a page other than index.php was used to make your static front page, adding a blog is as easy as creating a new page under “Pages” called Blog and making sure everything is correctly set as outlined in the Creating_a_Static_Front_Page link above.

    Thread Starter zacnin

    (@zacnin)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Awesome, jrav001! I will give this a shot and see how it goes. Thanks!!

    Thread Starter zacnin

    (@zacnin)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Jrav001 – Ok, our main page is using “main index tempalte” and our /blog page is using our blog template. Our “static home page” is /welcome page and our blog posting page goes to /blog. Still having some issues – the postings are showing up, but no heading or anything else. Thoughts?

    Thread Starter zacnin

    (@zacnin)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    main template is this, FYI:

    <div id="content_main"><div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></div><?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); the_content();endwhile; else:; endif;?></div>

    And blog is this:

    <?php query_posts('showposts=5');
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
the_title();
<?php endwhile;?>

    Any suggestions on why the title, and such isn’t showing up on http://intensitynutrition.com/blog would be helpful.

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