Comments on: WordPress: How to create a separate page for your blog posts while using a static homepage.

By: Michael Fields

Michael Fields — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:17:15 +0000

Your theme is most likely using the wp_page_menu() function to generate your navigation which adds the link for Home and then lists all other pages, you can remove Welcome by adding the exclude parameter like so:

wp_page_menu( 'exclude=9' );

Be sure to change 9 to the $post->ID of the page titled Welcome.

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:51:50 +0000

I am having a similar problem as Nickie. I’m working on a site for a client (melissacoeceremonies.com) and want a home page called either “home” or “welcome”. When I create it as “home” it shows up twice, and when I create it as “welcome”, both “home” (the default landing page) and “welcome” point to the same place. I don’t have a file called “home”, though.. which is why that part of the directions don’t make much sense to me.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:54:16 +0000

Thanks for the tip, so much easier searching Google than skimming through the Wordpress documentation.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:30:04 +0000

Thank you for the post…

I got the same result by simply creating a new page… I called it Home… then under Reading, I changed Post Page to Home.

By: jo

jo — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:28:38 +0000

Hi, thanks for the tip, you are the life saver:)

By: Scott @sydneydesign

Scott @sydneydesign — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:56:47 +0000

Hi, nice tip thanks, i’ll use it on my site.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:21:40 +0000

Wow thanks so much! Been looking for this for ages, and yet it’s always been there hiding! Champion post

By: Nickie

Nickie — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:46:36 +0000

Hi, my template/theme already came with a homepage so now I have 2 pages named ‘home’? How do I get rid of the home page that came with the template so it just leaves me with the home page I’ve created??? Thanks.

Nickie x

By: scribbler

scribbler — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:19:23 +0000

hi, Thanks many for the post :) I’ve been searching around for this for quite a long time

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