PageLines Support

anniesmidt

I've read the posts on this or similar topics to no avail. Clearly, I'm missing some kinda big picture thing. Any help much appreciated!

site: h[url=ttp://www.rightbrainbrands.com]ttp://www.rightbrainbrands.com[/url]
theme: PlatformPro using PlatformBase child

I need to have:

Home page with Feature, blog exerpts (and sidebar)
Blog page with recent posts, no Feature (with sidebar)

Sounds simple, but I've tried every combo of settings known to man, plug-ins, you name it, and I can only have ONE or the OTHER of the items in the list above. They seem mutually exclusive.

I've tried static home page, posts on home page < every possible combo on that SETTINGS > READING page. Tried tons of stuff with the PP templates, hide by default, etc, WordPress menus. Cannot figure it out.

I generally have a pretty good understanding of WordPress, but this is making me very crazy. Please help. Thank you!

arpowers

Well the 'posts' page is the one that shows your blog by default.

If you want to show your recent posts, etc.. on a page template; you could easily do it using a widget.

So I guess the question is: is you home page a page template?

yelizavetta

Ah! I'm having the exact same problem and am going a bit nuts!

I'd like my home page to have 2-3 of the most recent blogs (excerpts), boxes, feature slider (the last two I've set up already).

And my blog page to just have the blogs, no features.

My home page is a page template (Feature page, using PlatformPro)...

How do I do this?

Help would be so, so, so appreciated!

Kate

@Yelizavetta I believe I replied to this question from you in another thread. If not, please let us know and we can get you helped out.

flypig

I'd like to read an answer to this. I set up my home page as Features, then added an About page and a Box page. Now I want at add a Blog page, but when I make a new page "Posts" is not an available template choice, only Default, Banner ,Box, Carousel, Feature, and Highlight. I don't want any of these, I just want to see blog posts. I feel like I'm in a Klein Bottle.

bryan-hadaway

To set the blog page go to:

Settings > Reading

and select which page you'd like to use to display the posts.

If you want to pull posts into additional pages you can easily do so with a posts plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=posts

or a category plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=category

Thanks, Bryan

kjubeck

I would like to achieve the same result (intro and post excerpts on homepage) I am a little disappointed that Pagelines does not make this possible. It seems like adding a "posts" Section in the Template Setup interface would do the trick. Is this something that could be added to a future release of Pagelines?

The reason anyone chooses WordPress for a CMS is because it also supports blogging. So, it would be nice if Pagelines made the manipulation of posts presenation a little easier.

bryan-hadaway

Moved to Ideas and Feedback and marked for review by the developers.

Thanks, Bryan

arpowers

You can do this, the easiest way would be using Shortcodes, Widgets, etc...

We will look into improving this and I'm sure it will get easier with time

buettnerj

Has anyone figured this out yet with Pagelines Platform?

For whatever reason, I just cannot. This option is not in the settings. I have even tried the http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-most-recent-posts/ widget on like a "full width sidebar" and putting the full width sidebar on my Feature Page Template. No luck.

Thoughts?

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