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August 5th, 2016 at 00:35 #38144
Hi, I just applied the Nirvana theme to a site I created for a friend. I’ve used it for two other sites I’ve created, and I didn’t have any problems adding a Blog to my menu. This time, there was no Blog Template that came with Nirvana when I installed the theme. It came with a “News” page. I created a page, “Blog,” and added to my menu. My posts don’t appear on News or Blog. I have Settings>Reading set to “Front Page displays your latest post.” I’ve chosen not to show the blog posts on the presentation page. IN any event, I want “Blog” to show up in the menu, and for my posts to be seen there. Any ideas? Thanks so much.
August 5th, 2016 at 01:32 #38145PS: I can only get my posts to display on the blog page if I set my front page to a static page, and then I lose the presentation page. Thanks.
August 5th, 2016 at 13:12 #38159ZedCryout Creations mastermindThe Blog Template is a page template (a type of page, not a specific page that can be added to the menu) – it shows up in the list on the right side of the screen while you’re editing a (static) page.
It can be applied to any page to turn it into a posts list.If you like our creations, help us share by rating them on WordPress.org.
Please check the available documentation and search the forums before starting a topic.August 6th, 2016 at 05:28 #38183Hi, Zed, thank you for your reply. I thought there was some secret to the Blog Page Template you’ve referred to. I DO have a Blog page set up on the site and it’s in the top menu. (allbyhim.org). I can get blogs to show up on the Blog page ONLY if I go to WP Settings: Reading and choose a static page for the front page (posts page: blog). This seems to be the only place in WordPress to choose where your blogs show up. However, I want to use Nirvana’s Presentation page as my front page. And the only way to do that is to choose “your latest posts” as my front page. If I do this, then posts disappear from the Blog Page template. Any ideas how I can use Nirvana’s Presentation page as my front page AND have my blog posts show up where they belong? Thank you
August 10th, 2016 at 20:33 #38251ZedCryout Creations mastermindSince themes are forced to respect WordPress’ reading settings and the only way to get our presentation visible is to set Reading to Latest Posts – this is exactly the scenario we’ve made the Blog Page template for, and explained it in the theme FAQs.
If you like our creations, help us share by rating them on WordPress.org.
Please check the available documentation and search the forums before starting a topic.August 15th, 2016 at 08:09 #38366Hi, Zed: thanks again for your reply. I understand that a theme must adhere to WP rules. However, maybe I wasn’t clear. On two sites, I’ve been able to use the presentation page AND also have posts show up on a Blog page. But it did not work on the third website. Eventually I trashed the blog page that showed up with the Nirvana theme and trashed the blog page I’d created. A few days later I created a new blog page for the problematic site. I chose Blog template (Posts Page) in WordPress’s right margin for the template type. I don’t think that was available originally, at least not in the preloaded “news” page which came with the Nirvana theme. In any event, I resolved it that way. but it can be done: You can enable the presentation page (choose to show posts on that page or not), and you can also have a posts page in your menu. You just have to make sure to designate the type of template when you create the page.
August 21st, 2016 at 10:46 #38527ZedCryout Creations mastermindNirvana does not come with any sample “News” page, and the Blog page template has always been there from the first release.
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