WordPress Creating a Static Front Page
Wordpress shows your recent post in order on the front page of your site. Front page Customize on the your site. WordPress user want a static page as the front page instead. This static page look is common for users desiring static page on the front page of the site. Login Page Custom WordPress
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Blog posts on static front page
That worked great. Just for anyone finding this post, what I have accomplished is pulling in blog post content into a 'static' page template so that I have static content and blog content on the same page. Here is the code I used with both loops, the first being the blog content loop and the second being the standard page template loop for static content: Display Random Post
<?php $my_query = "showposts=3"; $my_query = new WP_Query($my_query); ?>
<?php if ($my_query->have_posts()) : while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<!-- standard tags to display blog post information like the_title() here -->
<?php endwhile; // end of one post ?>
<?php endif; //end of loop ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<!-- standard tags to display the static page information like the_title() here -->
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
Only show sidebar on home page
edit your sidebar.php file, found in the theme files in the /wp-content/themes/{theme-name} folder
put this as the first line:
<?php if ( is_front_page() ) { ?>
and this as the last line:
<?php } ?>
<?php }
else {
?>