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Create a page link to the blog posts in Wordpress
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We have designed a sophisticated Wordpress CMS for one of our clients. The site is www.quantumconsulting.org. In this site, we created a static home page and a page link to the blog post. The blog link has a pretty permalink http://www.quantumconsulting.org/blog. Besides that, we also incorporated a newsletter contact form on the front page.
You may be interested in how we create a page link to the blog posts with such a nice permalink. Here is our step-by-step method:
- Create a new file called blog.php and copy the content of the index.php to the blog.php
- Make the blog.php a page template by pasting the following code on the top:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Blog
*/
?> - Create a new WordPress “page” (Write > Page) and name the title “Blog”
- Scroll down to the “Advanced Options” and expand the “Page Template” section. Choose “Blog” from the drop down menu. Click Publish
- Edit the blog.php file.
Find
< ?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
Replace with
<?php
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query->query('showposts=5'.'&paged='.$paged);
while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post();
?>
Find
<?php else : ?>and remove it and any thing that has to do with it.
Find
< ?php endif; ?>
Replace with
<?php $wp_query = null; $wp_query = $temp;?>
That is all. I got the solution from this post.
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Alfred,
Thanks for sharing! Thanks to you and Nathan, i can better implement this now. I spent several hours customising a static front page but could hardly work out how to get the posts under a single page. The newsletter contact fom looks great, how this that done; i am using cforms but i am too much of a ‘dummy’ (about 4 months old WP user) to get it to the front that cool way.
Bless u,
BSK
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Wow thank you for the step by step tutorial, very helpful!
I love using the blog page template. I have been using a dynamic homepage with lots of teaser information and a static blog page on most of my blogs for quite some time. It is a good way to put out a lot of information in a small space.
The second great thing about having a blog page is you can make it less graphically intense than your homepage or post pages making it a good spot to attract the attention of those using slower connections.
The best reason to have one though I found out recently is to have a backup portal into your blog. My host had problems with their upgrade which messed up my install and subsequently my homepage. Through wordpress I was able to simply redirect incoming traffic to the blog page. This give me time to not only fix the problems a new install caused but to mull over redesign ideas I wanted to make on the homepage.