By default, WordPress displays your blog posts on the home page. However, if you are making a business website or simply want to customize your homepage, then you may want a separate page for your blog section.
This setup not only helps you keep your homepage clean and focused but also provides a dedicated space for readers to explore your blog content.
To improve the user experience and maintain a clear focus on our offerings, we have added separate blog pages on many of the websites of our partner companies, including WPForms, OptinMonster, and All in One SEO. This allows visitors to easily access blog content while prioritizing the primary goal of promoting our plugins.
In this article, we will show you two ways to create a separate page for blog posts in WordPress.
Why Display Blog Posts on a Separate Page?
The home page is the front page of your WordPress website and the first page your visitors see. By default, WordPress shows your most recent posts on your home page, and that makes sense if you are running a blog.
But it’s not always ideal for small business websites. You will probably want a more engaging home page that tells users about your business, products, and services, lets them know how to contact you, and boosts your sales conversion.
Now, if you also want to run a blog on your website, then you will need to provide another page where visitors can go to read your posts.
Having said that, we will show you how to easily create a separate page for blog posts in WordPress.
In this tutorial, we have discussed two methods, and you can use the links below to jump to the method of your choice. Keep in mind that the second method is the simplest and offers the most customization:
Video Tutorial
If you’d prefer written instructions, then just keep reading.
Method 1: Creating Separate Pages for Blog Posts in WordPress
You can create a separate page for blog posts using default WordPress settings.
However, this method takes a little more work than Method 2 and does not offer as many customization options.
Creating a Separate Home Page and Blog Page
First, you must create two separate WordPress pages to use as your home page and blog page.
You don’t need to add any content to those pages, and you can name them anything you like. For instance, some business websites use ‘News’ for their blog page.
Once you have created those pages, visit the Settings » Reading page in the WordPress admin area.
Now, under the section labeled ‘Your homepage displays’, you need to click on the button for ‘A static page’.
After that, you can select the Home and Blog pages you created earlier. You should then scroll down and click the ‘Save Changes’ button.
Now, when you navigate to the Pages » All Pages screen from the WordPress dashboard, you will see that the Home page is labeled ‘Front Page’ and the Blog page is labeled ‘Posts Page’.
Go ahead and click on the ‘View’ link under the Blog page to preview it.
The appearance of these pages depends on your WordPress theme, and you may wish to configure these settings.
For example, if your theme has a navigation menu, then you will notice that WordPress has automatically added the new Blog and Home pages. If not, then refer to our beginner’s guide on how to add a navigation menu in WordPress.
Customizing Your Home Page
So far, your new home page is blank. Now it’s time to add information about your business, products, and services and let your visitors know how they can contact you.
You can learn how to do that in our guide on how to create a custom home page in WordPress. In Method 1, we show you how to use the block editor to add cover images, columns, tables, text and media, galleries, and more.
You’ll also find lots of creative customization ideas in our guide on how to edit a WordPress home page easily and effectively.
Customizing Your Blog Page
If you’re happy with the way your blog page looks, then your job is finished.
However, if you are currently using a block-based theme, then you can also customize your blog page by visiting the Appearance » Editor screen from the WordPress dashboard.
Once you are there, select the ‘Pages’ option from the left column in the full site editor.
This will open a list of all the pages on your website in the left column.
From here, select the ‘Blog’ page option and then click on the page preview on the right to start customizing your blog page.
You can now click on the add block ‘+’ button in the top left corner of the screen and add blocks of your choice to the page.
Additionally, you can change the background, text, or link color on your blog page by clicking on the ‘Styles’ icon at the top right corner of the screen.
This will open a block panel on the right from where you can click the ‘Typography’ tab to change text color, the ‘Colors’ tab to change background color, and the ‘Layout’ tab to configure your blog page’s dimensions.
Once you are done, don’t forget to click the ‘Save’ button at the top to store your settings.
Now, you can visit your WordPress blog page to see how it looks.
However, if you are using a classic theme, then you will need to use Method 2 instead to customize your blog post page.
Method 2: Creating a Customized Page for Blog Posts With a Drag & Drop Builder (Recommended)
A theme builder plugin allows you to easily create a custom WordPress theme without any code. That includes the ability to create and customize a separate page for blog posts.
Installing the SeedProd Theme Builder
First, you need to install and activate the SeedProd plugin. For more details, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
SeedProd is the best drag-and-drop WordPress page builder for businesses, bloggers, and website owners. It also has a theme designer that allows you to easily customize your blog page and much more.
You can read our complete SeedProd review for more details.
Upon activation, visit the SeedProd » Settings page to enter your license key. You can find this information in your account on the SeedProd website.
After that, it’s time to create a custom WordPress theme. This is much simpler than it sounds.
Creating a Custom WordPress Theme
First, you need to visit the SeedProd » Theme Builder page. Here, you’ll use one of SeedProd’s ready-made themes as a starting point. This will replace your existing WordPress theme with a new, custom design.
You can do that by clicking the ‘Themes’ button.
You will now be shown a list of professionally designed themes that are designed for different types of websites.
For example, there are templates called ‘Modern Business’, ‘Marketing Agency’, and ‘Mortgage Broker Theme’.
Have a look through the options and select one that best matches your needs by clicking the checkmark icon.
Once you have chosen a theme, SeedProd will generate all the theme templates, including one for your blog index and one for your home page.
These are not just empty pages but come set up with attractive layouts and placeholder content that’s easy to customize.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to customize the home page and blog index templates.
You might also like to customize the other templates. To learn how to do that, see our beginner’s guide on how to easily create a custom WordPress theme.
Customizing Your Home Page
Once you have generated your theme templates, you can edit them using the SeedProd theme builder. We will start with the Homepage template.
Simply click the ‘Edit Design’ link under the homepage to get started.
This will launch the template file in the SeedProd theme builder.
This simple drag-and-drop builder will show a live preview of your page to the right and a block toolbar on the left.
You can customize any block by clicking on it, dragging blocks up and down with your mouse, and adding new blocks to the page.
We’ve written a complete guide on how to create a custom home page in WordPress. Simply scroll down to Method 2 to learn how to customize your home page using SeedProd.
Customizing Your Blog Page
The SeedProd theme builder also provides plenty of ways to customize your blog index page.
Get started by clicking the ‘Edit Design’ link under the page.
You will see the same preview pane on the right and the toolbar on the left. You can customize the blog page the same way you did with the home page.
For example, when you click on the headline, you will be able to see all of its settings. You can edit the text, change the alignment and font size, and more.
Once you’ve finished, you’ll need to click on the ‘Blocks’ icon to return to the toolbar.
The SeedProd theme builder offers additional Template Parts blocks, such as a Posts block, which displays a list of your blog posts.
The Posts block has already been added to the blog index template for you, and in this template, the block displays your posts in two columns. We can change this to a single column.
Simply click on the Posts block and then change the ‘Columns’ setting to 1.
The layout will immediately change to a single column.
As you scroll down the Posts block settings, you’ll find toggle switches that let you choose whether or not to display the post’s feature image and title. You can also choose which header tag to use for the post title.
There are also options for displaying different post metadata. You can toggle the date modified, author, date and time published, and the comment count.
Here are a few more ways that you can customize your blog index:
- You can filter the index by post type, category, tag, or author.
- The sort order of the posts can be changed.
- You can choose how many posts are displayed on a page.
- You can toggle the post excerpt and customize its length.
Once you have finished customizing your blog page, make sure you click the ‘Save’ button at the top of the screen. Then, you can return to the list of templates by clicking the ‘X’ icon.
Enabling the SeedProd Theme
Once you have finished customizing the theme templates, you will need to publish the new custom theme.
Simply toggle the ‘Enable SeedProd Theme’ setting to the ‘YES’ position.
You will immediately see a notification that the WordPress Home and Blog page settings need to be changed. When you click the ‘OK’ button, these settings will be changed for you.
You can now visit your website to view your new home page and blog page. This is how the blog index page looks on our demo site.
Bonus: Display Your Recent Posts in WordPress
Once you have created a separate blog page, you can still show some recent posts on your home page to encourage users to explore more of your site.
To do this, open your homepage in the WordPress block editor. Once you are there, click the ‘Add Block’ button at the top left corner of the screen to open the block menu.
From here, simply add the ‘Latest Posts’ block to the page. Once you do that, you can customize the list of recent posts to display post excerpts, author names, and dates according to your liking.
Finally, click the ‘Publish’ button at the top to store your settings. Now, some of your recent posts will still be displayed on the home page to ensure that users spend more time on your website.
For more information, you can see our tutorial on how to display recent posts in WordPress.
We hope this tutorial helped you learn how to create a separate page for blog posts in WordPress. You may also want to learn how to add custom post status for blog posts in WordPress or check out our list of the best related posts plugins for WordPress.
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Juliana
hello. My blog page is showing just about 3 of my recent posts. How do i get all of my posts to appear on the blog page or a scroll down button to get access to older posts. Thanks
WPBeginner Support
For what you’re wanting, you would want to take a look at our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-change-the-number-of-posts-displayed-on-your-blog-page/
Admin
Orlando
Excellent article! Very helpful.
Can I create a static home page and multiple post blogs. For example: I have various menu items, and would like to place my blogs on each of the sub menu items. Just to keep separate topics.
Thanks again
WPBeginner Support
If the posts are in their own categories, you could add the category itself to the menu for WordPress to generate a blog page for that specific category: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-add-navigation-menu-in-wordpress-beginners-guide/
Admin
Tom
Hi there,
I have managed to create a blog page with the posts displaying.
However, I don’t want to re-create my home page as it already has content on it.
The posts are still showing at the bottom of my existing home page.. if that makes sense!
Regards,
Tom
WPBeginner Support
Your specific theme may display the posts there by default, if you reach out to your specific theme’s support they can let you know if that is a built-in option you can change.
Admin
Shayla
Hey! I really need help with creating my own “I NEED HELP WITH…” section that you have on your site on your sidebar. Hope you will be able to assist. Thank you so much!!
WPBeginner Support
We manually created that widget, you can use inspect element to see how the widget is set up: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/basics-of-inspect-element-with-your-wordpress-site/
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Dimitar Mitev
Hello,
What could be the reason for my website not loading videos or images on static front page? Could it be the theme I use?
I have done all the steps above and uploaded a picture in the contect of my home page, but it only shows the text (not even borders or any place where the picture should appear). When I make the same page to appear as a standard page (not front one) and to be reached through the menu, it loads perfectly together with the image. Same happens when I try it with embeded video.
WPBeginner Support
You may want to try following the steps in our troubleshooting article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-to-troubleshooting-wordpress-errors-step-by-step/
to see if you can find the likely culprit for the error.
Admin
Shiwani
Hi,
I am trying to create a separate page which I can communicate to prospective subscribers to subscribe.
Unable to do that. Tried to use mailchimp but the code it generates does not work after I create a new page.
I already have a subscribe widget – but I want to be able to send a link for a page that only has the subscribe option – to make it easier for people to spot the subscribe (it appears way down below in the mobile app right now)
Please help!
Thanks
Shiwani
WPBeginner Support
If your MailChimp code is being removed from the page then your site may be on WordPress.com: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/self-hosted-wordpress-org-vs-free-wordpress-com-infograph/
Admin
k_malek
Hi
Is it possible to display posts BOTH on the homepage and on another blog page (in the same manner)? I tried copy-pasting PHP code, but that doesn’t seem to work.
WPBeginner Support
It would depend on your specific theme if there is a built-in template you could use. Otherwise you could use the shortcode method in our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-display-recent-posts-in-wordpress/
Admin
Vladimir Živković
Its good for me that my posts on Serbian language show up on home page, but i need page to publish my posts on English, do we have solution for that?
WPBeginner Support
For that, you would want to take a look at our multilingual article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-easily-create-a-multilingual-wordpress-site/
Admin
Jennifer McCarthy
Is it possible to have your home page be a grid layout and your blog page be all your posts one after the other? I am looking for a “landing” page to be in grid format and I have the Content Views plugin and the shortcode for it. I am just looking for where to put that shortcode. Thanks.
WPBeginner Support
It is possible, you would set a specific page as your blog page and the page you set as your home page would be where you place the code for the grid.
Admin
Yulia
Hi, could you please tell why if I hit Preview button on the Blog Posts assigned page – it redirects you to some sort of weired URL, like
/?preview_id=7&preview_nonce=dbffd0676e&_thumbnail_id=-1&preview=true
And if I hit for the second time it shows eventually the correct URL of the Page – /blog
Thanks in advance
WPBeginner Support
The first is when WordPress is saving your current version of the post as a revision because you clicked preview and the second time is pulling from the revision rather than creating a new one
Admin
Akash
Great post. I was looking for this. Thanks a lot.
WPBeginner Support
You’re welcome
Admin
Sarah
This is very helpful.
But can you please let me know how to have blog posts on my home page and a specific blog page also?
WPBeginner Support
You could force create a blog page using: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-display-recent-posts-in-wordpress/
while still having your homepage list your most recent posts
Admin
Louise
But how do you create a blog page WITHOUT making your home page static?
WPBeginner Support
In that scenario, your home page would be your blog page. You could add your categories in your menu to have the categories list the posts on the generated pages in that scenario.
Admin
Lowell
This helped me a lot with my confusion. Thank you.
WPBeginner Support
You’re welcome
Admin
Mark Elmo Ellis
That was the best, most concise video I’ve ever seen. Saved me a crap-load of time,
Thanks so much!!!
WPBeginner Support
You’re welcome
Admin
Indike
Hi, can you please tell me why my blog posts go to the main page, and that main page is not shown as a page in the WP control panel? I mean my posts are posted on the homepage. But when I go to the pages tab, my posts are not shown, and nothing is shown as home page.
After this article I know I can create a new page called homepage and direct all my posts there, but I’m curious as to why the above thing happens.
Also, is there any harm to the site if I don’t use that default homepage scene altogether?
WPBeginner Support
WordPress will by default create a home page based on your theme’s styling that you cannot directly edit which lists your newest posts. You can create a new page for your home page and set that page under Settings > Reading without any issue.
If you wanted to list posts on other pages, you would normally add a link to the specific category to your menu for WordPress to generate the page for you or manually add the links to your posts.
Admin
Eldor
Nice tutorial, just what needed! Many thanks
WPBeginner Support
You’re welcome
Admin
Mohd Zain
I want a theme to show Govement Schemes. But i am unable to find a good theme so please guide me
WPBeginner Support
You may want to look into multipurpose themes depending on how you want your site set up: https://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/best-wordpress-multi-purpose-themes/
Admin
Susan Alcorn
Thank you very much. I am not a techie, and setting up my site has been very difficult for me, but I am finding that with patience I can get there! I like the way that you had both the video and written explanations here.
WPBeginner Support
You’re welcome, glad you found our content helpful
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Mirel
This article is great !Thank you for sharing!
I do have an opposite situation. I want to move several blog posts from the Blog page to a page called articles. What is the best way to do it?
WPBeginner Support
You could add those posts to a category and link to the category in your menu, then remove the posts from the blog page using: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-exclude-a-category-from-your-wordpress-homepage/
Admin
Jennifer P
Hello! I have the opposite issue….I do not want a static home page, but when I change my homepage settings as “Your Latest Posts” my blog page is empty when one clicks on “Blog” in the Menus.
I had it working but must have tweaked something and lost it.
WPBeginner Support
When you set the home page to show your posts, your home page becomes your blog page. You could add categories to your menu to list posts in that specific category similar to the blog page.
Admin
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Gavin
The video is great. But I have more question: Can I show posts on different pages? What’s the post category do? Can I show different category of posts on different pages?
Kevin T.
I have the same question as Gavin. I’d like to have one page for blog posts and another for podcast show notes. I have the individual posts categorized differently, but I’m not sure how to create different pages to display them.
WPBeginner Support
If you want a list of the posts in a category, you could add the category itself in your menu and WordPress will generate a page for you: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-add-navigation-menu-in-wordpress-beginners-guide/
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Keith Rickman
Just wanted to say that this tutorial was crystal clear unlike many others I have looked at. Well done and please keep all future tutorials this clear, thanks Keith
WPBeginner Support
We’ll certainly do our best to keep our tutorials clear, glad they can be helpful to you
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DeWitt Noble
This stumped me for longer than I’m proud to admit. Your video solved my problem in seconds.
WPBeginner Support
Glad our tutorial could help
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Hil M
I’m using the Divi theme (and a child theme of it);everything is updated as of this posting. I used one of the Divi layouts for a separate blog page. All is well until I choose the “Older Posts” or if I turn on pagination, another page #. The blog page that I made does refresh like it’s going to pull in posts, but then the sidebar which had been on the right appears on the left, and a big empty 2/3 column space with NO posts in it.
What’s up? What’s missing?
Love your emails I receive for help with WP!
WPBeginner Support
Hello,
Seems like the template you applied is only used for the blog page and not for blog archive pages. When you click on the next page then it switches to show the template set for your archive pages. Please reach out to Divi support and they will be able to help you find a workaround.
Admin
Hil
Who knew you needed two different pages? Or layouts, or whatever….I have been having non-stop problems with setting up a blog page, and you’d think that’d be the foremost easiest thing to do for Wordpress! Argh!
Thanks.
Simon
Spot on…many thanks
Tina Venema
Hi there
I have a question. I have followed the video instructions which were great! However, I cant figure out how to fix one glitch.
The feature image that i had for my blog page (static page called ‘Stories’) has been replaced by the homepage feature image once i chose the Stories page as the blog page. My homepage is static. I don’t want the same page for my blog page as i have at the homepage. If you could give me some instruction that would be great! Thanks!
Rahul
Hi, How to add only blog category posts on blog page?
I have 3 categories on my site like Blog, reviews and coupons. but i want to show only blog category posts on my blog page, how would i do that? right now all category post are showing up on my blog page reviews and coupons too.
How would i make only one category to be showed on blog page?
pankaj
there are twp options for homepage in WordPress 1.latest posts 2. custom page. should I choose latest post option or custom page option in WordPress as my homepage. I only have blog posts to show and i want to show all of them on my homepage. so Whichone of these will increase seo and PR of my homepage latest posts option or custom page.
Renee Ocana
FIRST: Your tutorial has been very usefull and illuminating!
So… I have a one page site, I want to add some preview posts to the landing page, and make another page where all the posts are… BUT I have one big problem: the menu in my blog page doesn´t work, cause my main page works on css #… I haven’t figure out how to even explain this since I haven’t found a solution in the internet, can you please help me?
WPBeginner Support
Hi Renee,
It seems like your site is setup to be a single page site. For your blog page link, you will need to edit the navigation menu and manually add the blog page link there.
Admin
Christopher Chorley
Hi, thanks for the post. Would you no-index the blog page?
Thanks
WPBeginner Support
Hi Christipher,
No. Adding no-index to the blog page will prevent search engines from indexing it.
Admin
Amiya
Hi wpbegineer support team,
i have my blog page and in blog page in right sidebar there is search box. but i search any content in searchbar, it’s redirect the main url to example.com/?s=seo. but i want it to example.com/blog/?s=seo. what should i do?
WPBeginner Support
Hi Amiya,
Please see our article on how to change the default search url slug in WordPress
Admin
Estie
Hi, thanks for a great video. I have created the blog post page and all the posts show. However they show in full and not summary even though summary is checked in the reading section. Please help!
WPBeginner Support
Hi Estie,
Please see if your theme settings has an option to display excerpts on the blog page.
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Annette Cruz
Thank you so much for the video!! This explained everything, step by step and my site has now been re-designed.
Olha Bohun
Hi,
Thank for the video, really helpful.
However, I’ve still got a problem here. I’ve created my Blog page with a certain text on it. Like: “I’m glad to share my knowledge with you!”, and then I plan for the posts to follow. But when I’ve tuned the Blog page to become a default page for posts as per this video guide, it doesn’t display that text anymore.
Any tips?
Thanks in advance for your answer!
d moore
if I use a page for my blog post doesn’t it not allow me to use tags and categories because it is creating Pages as blog posts?
WPBeginner Support
Hi,
The page will just act as a placeholder to display your blog posts. You will write your blog posts as you normally do without editing that page.
Admin
Sean Davies
Mega! I was properly stuck right until the end. Thanks for going through the whole process
Nisha
Hi, I was able to make custom blog page. But I cnanot provide custom page to individual post pages. How do I get layout option in post pages. im using blank slate
Debabrata Mondal
Hello,
Is there any way I can add another page for blog even if I don’t have a static front page? If so, how?
WPBeginner Support
Hi Debabrata,
What do you want to show on your homepage then? If only your blog entries will appear on homepage and then you have another separate page for blog entries, they will be exactly the same which may cause duplicate content issue with search engines.
Admin
Jessica Xavier
I dont have a ‘reading’ option under my settings – my dshboard does not look quite like this one…please help!
WPBeginner Support
Hi Jessica,
You are probably using WordPress.com. Please see our guide on the difference between self hosted WordPress.org vs free WordPress.com blog.
Admin
Narayan
Very useful article for WordPress beginners like me.I really appreciate your efforts.Thank you team.