Now that we have the pages created we need to assign them.
Go to your Dashboard > Settings > Reading and you will come to the following screen
You can make your choices here. Set your static page to Home and the blog roll page to Shawn's Blog or in your case whatever you named it and then scroll down and click save changes and your site is set up with a static home page.
Blog Roll
If you want your site to have a blog roll like Test Site Number Two, then you choose the latest post box and scroll down and click save changes.
Notice when you click your latest posts the two boxes below no longer let you change anything there. Just disregard these boxes in this mode.
There you have it. What the difference in these two pages are and how to create them.
One last tip, on your blog posts use the more feature to make the page look more professional.
What is the more feature?
You can find training on that here:
Multiple posts on Word Press Blogs
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I have the blog roll page working well.
Took me a bit to figure it out, one of those things that was so easy I over thought it..Lol. :))
http://brightoncomputerandretailstore.com/
What is interesting, the way I had it before I was ranking 38 with Google for this page, now that I revised it and removed a ton of other content that was a bit confusing probably. I am now ranking 2.5 on Google Analytics for this page.
And here is my post blog roll that I set up in my menu for reading:
http://brightoncomputerandretailstore.com/blog-computers/
This is now ranking 4.1, it was running at about page 5 for a while till I changed some of my blogging routines. Well, actually I didn't even have a blog roll till about two weeks ago, was having a duhh moment on how to get it set up. I just had a long running page with all the blogs on it.
Thanks, I appreciate you taking a look. :))
