Title: Template for WordPress posts page?
Last modified: July 26, 2018

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# Template for WordPress posts page?

 *  [gulliwog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliwog/)
 * (@gulliwog)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-for-wordpress-posts-page/)
 * When I assign a page to the Posts Page (WP -> Settings -> Reading) it disables
   templates in that pages Page Attributes.
 * I can make/use custom templates for all my regular static pages (including Home
   page) and also for my posts themselves… but the Posts Page itself seems to be
   the one page I cannot make a template for. Is this normal? Is there some way 
   I can make a template for that page too?

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-for-wordpress-posts-page/#post-10530012)
 * Using [https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/template_include](https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/template_include),
   you can change the template when [is_home() ](https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#The_Blog_Page)
   is true.
 *  Thread Starter [gulliwog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliwog/)
 * (@gulliwog)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-for-wordpress-posts-page/#post-10530051)
 * But it doesn’t have also to be the static front-page? I would like to have a 
   different static frontpage to the blog page.
 * “There is no conditional tag for the blog page. You have to use both is_home()
   and is_front_page() to detect this page”
 * Is that saying I can only change template if it is both?
 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-for-wordpress-posts-page/#post-10530567)
 * It’s called front-page.php, and it needs to handle both situations.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-for-wordpress-posts-page/#post-10530567)
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