Creating a Blog Page Versus Post Page

[dmimcc]

Hello,

I surfed one post but didn’t think it directly related to my issue. My understanding is Cornerstone does not work with Blog Archive (Post) pages hence - this page is all jacked up. The goal was to have our blog page be the main hub and from there you can click on stories and it open up a similar page (header at top of the subject etc). I see there is a blog option in Template settings. Is there something I should be doing to get a better blog experience? Should I not being creating Post and doing something else?

[ruenel]

Hi Dominic,

Thanks for writing in!

To better understand how WordPress works, we will compare each of the parts of a WordPress site. We have the following:

• page

  • homepage

• posts

• archives

  • blog index / posts page
  • category archive
  • tag archive
  • author archive

The page is a normal page which you can edit in the WP editor or any page builder like Cornerstone. A certain page can be edited and then assigned as your homepage.

A certain page can be created named as blog. You can assigned this as your Posts Page in Settings > Reading > Front Page Displays > Posts Page. Only the page title, page slug and other post meta will be used. All the contents you may have added in this page will be discarded and post items will be dynamically generated.

The post can be edited with the WP editor or any page builder like Cornerstone.

The archive page will display the post items in chronological order. The blog index will display all the post items. The other archives will display post items specific to the archive.

For more details, please check out this codex:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts

Posts vs Pages

https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page#Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

Hope this helps.