Reading

Blogs are now well developed and can perform many of the functions of traditional html coded websites including having static pages as well as the timed posts.

1. You can choose whether your front page where your visitors will land will be a 'traditional' blog with your timed and dated posts or whether it will be a 'traditional' website with a static front page. You might want to do this if you are selling a product from your site and want to front it with a sales page – or if you have any other reason to have a static front page.

2. If you elect to have a static front page then you must identify which page you want to be the Front page. You will also need a new home page for your blog posts. So you will need to go and create these pages first so that they will appear in the drop down menu. Then just select which page you want to use as the Front page and which for you Posts.

3. As you write your posts they will accumulate on the front page up to the number you specify here. After that they will be automatically archived. In terms of search engine optimisation the spiders see all the content of a page as belonging to that page. So if you have 10 posts specified then they will read the content of all 10 posts as the content of your blog home page. There is more chance of your content staying focused on your main keywords if you have a smaller number of posts on the one page. I usually use 5 posts.

4. Your WP blog automatically has an RSS feed that makes your content available automatically to anyone who subscribes to your feed. You can specify here how many of your posts you want included in that feed. There are differing opinions about whether you should make the full text available – which tends to indicate that you have every confidence in your authority and ability to survive whether or not people come and visit your site – or just a summary of a few lines with a link to bring them to your site if they want to read the whole article. When starting off the recommendation has to be to use the Summary.

5. Technical stuff – don't worry about it – but don't change it either.

Don't forget to SAVE CHANGES.

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