How to have the latest article automatically feed into the home page?

kami88
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kami88 posted this 04 January 2016

Does anyone know what I need to do for a WordPress widget area on the home page to automatically show the title and first paragraph of the latest blog post?

Does anyone know what I need to do for a WordPress widget area on the home page to automatically show the title and first paragraph of the latest blog post?
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m.wendland
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m.wendland posted this 05 January 2016

I have the same problem, but there are to less users here to get proper help I guess.
It should have something to do with the settings -> reading -> choose static page (second choice), then choose start page and article Page.

Now it should work -> everybody says, but not with my installation ;-(

I have the same problem, but there are to less users here to get proper help I guess. It should have something to do with the settings -> reading -> choose static page (second choice), then choose start page and article Page. Now it should work -> everybody says, but not with my installation ;-(
Support Team
Support Team posted this 06 January 2016

Hi,

You say that you want to add the article within the widget area? You may need to position some special widget in that widget area to display the content of the article.
To simply display articles in the Home page you indeed need to set the Home page to show posts within the WP settings >> Reading.
If that does not work, you can find some help on the WP forums regarding that functionality as it is not related to the theme.

Sincerely,
Hella

Hi, You say that you want to add the article within the widget area? You may need to position some special widget in that widget area to display the content of the article. To simply display articles in the Home page you indeed need to set the Home page to show posts within the WP settings >> Reading. If that does not work, you can find some help on the WP forums regarding that functionality as it is not related to the theme. Sincerely, Hella
kami88
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kami88 posted this 06 January 2016

So I can set the blog page as well as the home page to show posts? I thought in WP you can only set one page for posts. I'll take a look at it. Thanks Hella.

So I can set the blog page as well as the home page to show posts? I thought in WP you can only set one page for posts. I'll take a look at it. Thanks Hella.

Last edited 06 January 2016 by kami88

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