I’ve got a couple of Premium Licenses, and have been working with 2 sites open simultaneously (Scary, huh?)
I’ve gone through all posts I could find on Blog Page and Posts and Sliders, and can’t seem to resolve. I am now officially brain-dead. Here’s what I’m trying to accomplish:
* static front page (not using meta-slider there) –> link to Blog page on menu –> click to Blog page that has slider-banner –> (So far; so good) –> 1st post is now listed –> clicking on title reveals post contents (also with slider/banner (I’ve gotten this far ok). I want the 1st post to stay pinned to the top of Blog page., the rest can desc or ascend, but I’d like to know how to control that. As it is, 1st post is being driven down the page.
I find conflicting info on whether to keep Blog page selected as “Post Page”, or deselect and use post loop.
All insights will be taken seriously.
Blog Page and Sliders and Posts, oh my!
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Ok. I think I’ve got this figured out, at least for the way I want it to work:
* create a meta-slider to use as banner –>
* create “blog” page w/ no parent, full-width/no title and nothing else. –>
* Settings/Reading Post Page = Blog –>
* Appearance/Theme Settings (I chose full-post and no featured image so results may (will probably) vary.) –>
* Go to Menus and assign your blog page to wherever you plan for it to show —
* create your 1st post and name it what you’d like your blog called ->drop your slider in the standard visual or text editor -> make “sticky” -> format=image -> select your category (s) -> comment preferences. Save it.
* create your second post -> select category (s) -> and post away!
Now when you go to your menu/blog it will come up with your banner and whatever you named it, showing post # 2 below it. Basically your 1st post has become your banner.
May not be the best way to make this work (and probably isn’t), but it works.
Hi DrDave
Thanks for your ongoing support.
Glad to see you made progress here! As I read your initial post I thought, you need to make your first post sticky.
Let me know if you need any more help here.
(Not sure if you were asking this, but in the event that you needed some kind of static content above your posts, you could use a Post Loop widget on the Blog page. That would let you render static content above the loop. As you’ve seen, once you set a page template to Blog, the page won’t render any content. If you ever need to render static content above or below your posts then using a Post Loop widget with the Default or Full Width page templates is the way to go).