Show Single Latest Post on Static (Home) Page

tmattoneill · Member · Feb 28, 2018 at 11:48 am
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I would like to have my homepage show ONLY the LATEST post from the blog (/archives).

In other words:
- Blog is published to /archive
- Home is an empty static page
I want all blog posts to go to /archive (blog) but always have the LATEST blog post be the only content on the home page (a static page).

There must be a super easy straight forward way to do this but I can’t find it anywhere.
- https://artnow-artthen.co.uk/ (Home)
- https://artnow-artthen.co.uk/archive/
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cherylsegura · Member · Feb 28, 2018 at 11:57 am
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I’m trying to do the same! I hope someone has an answer to your question. good luck!
tmattoneill · Member · Feb 28, 2018 at 12:02 pm
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Thanks. I have no idea why this isn’t the most obvious / intuitive / trivial thing ever.
kathrynwp · Staff · Feb 28, 2018 at 3:25 pm
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Looks like you’ve already done what I was going to suggest, which is:

In the Customizer‘s Homepage Settings panel, set:

– A page called Home as your static front page
– A page called Blog or Archive as your posts page

On the static homepage, use the Display Posts shortcode to display the most recent post, for example:

[display-posts posts_per_page="1"]

If either of you needs further help, just let me know.
tmattoneill · Member · Feb 28, 2018 at 3:28 pm
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Cheers. Trying to get it to appear as a post not a bullet (ul). Any thoughts on how to get it to appear normally? I tried the wrapper=“h1” property of the display-posts short code but had no effect.
kathrynwp · Staff · Feb 28, 2018 at 3:57 pm
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Try adding the wrapper="div" attribute to your shortcode. Let me know how it goes!

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