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Luanda Magazine: Front and Blog Page Setup

This setup applies when the Front Page Template and Posts Page are both active

Front Page

Go to Pages > Add New in the WordPress Dashboard.
Create a new page called “Home” (You can choose another name, e.g. “Magazine”).

Create Home page

Go to Page Attributes and select the Front Page Template. Save your changes.

Blog Page

Go to Pages > Add New in the WordPress Dashboard.
Create another new page called “Blog” (You can choose another name, e.g. “News”).

Create blog page

Once the front page and blog page are set up, go to Settings > Reading in the WordPress Dashboard and select “A Static Page”.

For “Homepage” select the page you want your front page to appear on (e.g. “Home”, “Magazine”). The Front Page Template has its own widget area and widgets.

Home page settings

For “Posts page” select the page you want your posts to appear on (e.g. “Blog”, “News”).

Blog page settings

The blog page displays all your posts. Featured images dimensions: at least width: 780px and height: 520px.

Makena: Website Settings

Configure Reading Settings

  1. Go to “Dashboard” → “Settings” → “Reading”
  2. Choose “A static page” on your home page displays options.
  3. Select “Home” as Homepage.
  4. Select “Blog” as your posts page.
  5. Save your settings.

Website settings WordPress

Permalink Settings

Next, go to go to “Dashboard” → “Settings” → “Permalinks” and choose a permalink type.

There are three types of WordPress permalinks:

  1. Plain Permalinks
    The Plain Permalink is WordPress’ default permalink, and is also called the Ugly Permalink.
    Example: http://yourwebsite.com/?p=N
    The Plain Permalink is ‘not user-friendly and also not optimized for search engines’.
  2. Pretty Permalinks
    Pretty Permalinks are SEO-friendly and attractive.
    Example: http://your-website.com/2012/post-name/ or http://yourwebsite.com/2012/12/30/post-name
  3. Almost Pretty Permalinks
    The Almost Pretty permalinks are similar to Pretty Permalinks and look like this:
    http://yourwebsite.com/index.php/yyyy/mm/dd/post-name/

Website Permallinks

Customize Homepage Settings via WordPress Theme Customizer

Go to “Dashboard” → “Appearance” → “Customize” → “Homepage Settings”.

FashionID: Website Settings

Configure Reading Settings

  1. Go to “Dashboard” → “Settings” → “Reading”
  2. Choose “A static page” on your home page displays options.
  3. Select “Home” as Homepage.
  4. Select “Blog” as your posts page.
  5. Save your settings.

Website settings WordPress

Permalink Settings

Next, go to go to “Dashboard” → “Settings” → “Permalinks” and choose a permalink type.

There are three types of WordPress permalinks:

  1. Plain Permalinks
    The Plain Permalink is WordPress’ default permalink, and is also called the Ugly Permalink.
    Example: http://yourwebsite.com/?p=N
    The Plain Permalink is ‘not user-friendly and also not optimized for search engines’.
  2. Pretty Permalinks
    Pretty Permalinks are SEO-friendly and attractive.
    Example: http://your-website.com/2012/post-name/ or http://yourwebsite.com/2012/12/30/post-name
  3. Almost Pretty Permalinks
    The Almost Pretty permalinks are similar to Pretty Permalinks and look like this:
    http://yourwebsite.com/index.php/yyyy/mm/dd/post-name/

Website Permallinks

Customize Homepage Settings via WordPress Theme Customizer

Go to “Dashboard” → “Appearance” → “Customize” → “Homepage Settings”.