Introduction
In WordPress, if you don’t build a page for blog posts, they will appear on the homepage by default. This makes your site less clear and organized. In particular, if you want to develop your site to run your business smoothly, it’s necessary for you to create a WordPress page for blog posts. In today’s blog, we will help you do that in a few simple, detailed steps. Let’s start now!
How to Create a WordPress Page for Blog Posts
Creating a separate blog page in WordPress
As you know, WordPress lets you easily set up a custom home page for your site. You can also select any page on your site to be the blog page.
Now, first of all, let’s create two pages that you will use for the homepage and the blog page. Click on Pages -> Add New. You don’t need to add any content to them; simply enter names for the 2 pages as in the image below. You can name the blog page News or something similar.
After creating two pages for the blog page and homepage, you need to go to Settings -> Reading. In the Your homepage displays section, choose A Static page. Then, simply select Home for the Homepage option and Blog for the Posts page option.
Don’t forget to save your changes after finishing the settings.
Now, you can visit Pages -> All Pages to see the new labels on the Blog and Home pages.
Adding the blog page link to the site’s navigation menu
Next, you need to add the blog page to the main menu of your site so that visitors can see and open it easily.
In order to do that, you need to go to Appearance -> Menu on the admin dashboard. After that, let’s add a navigation menu in WordPress with the detailed guide here.
After creating a navigation menu, let’s add the blog page to the menu and save it.
Editing your WordPress homepage
Many WordPress themes provide a built-in template for showing a static page as the site’s front page, but you still need to set it up yourself. Let’s go to Appearance -> Customize.
There, you will find many options to edit and design your site in your own style.
Besides that, you can also design your site by using one of the most popular WordPress Page Builder Plugins. Don’t worry if you don’t have coding skills; these plugins offer you simple drag-and-drop tools to design your site.
Customizing the blog page
By default, WordPress will find and choose a template in your theme to present the posts on the blog page automatically. However, if your theme doesn’t have one or you want to design your own blog page, you can install a WordPress Page Builder plugin to do that.
If you have already installed a page builder plugin and know how to use it, great. If not, you should learn how to use a page builder plugin to develop your site in your own way effectively. For more information about how to use a WordPress Page Builder plugin to design a page or a site, we will cover that in another blog post.
Conclusion
To sum up, we hope that today’s blog helps you create a WordPress page for blog posts smoothly. If you have any questions or difficulties, leave a comment below. We promise we will reply to you as soon as possible. Last but not least, don’t forget to visit our site and get many useful and Free WordPress Themes here. Thanks for reading.
