Exclude Posts from homepage or make a post static

alaltaierii · Nov 17, 2011

So, I was building my wordpress site for adsense but now I want to change it to promote a clickbank product. I have a post that is promoting that product and I want it to be the only post from the homepage(static).

Is there a way/plugin to make that post static ? Or any plugin to exclude the other posts from the homepage only.

I know that I can build a page and make it static but what happens to the backlinks that I created to that post ?

Any solution ?

CyberSEO · Nov 17, 2011

Open yourblog.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php in the browser
Enable "A static page (select below)" option
Select your static page in the "Front page:" drop-down menu
Click "Save Changes"
Reload your blog in the browser

P.S. Backlinks won't be affected. They will be automatically redirected by WP.

alaltaierii · Nov 17, 2011

CyberSEO said:
Open yourblog.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php in the browser

Enable "A static page (select below)" option

Select your static page in the "Front page:" drop-down menu

Click "Save Changes"

Reload your blog in the browser

P.S. Backlinks won't be affected. They will be automatically redirected by WP.

I cannot select a static page from there because that is a POST not a page and it's not listed there.

Greybeard · Nov 18, 2011

I would use Cyber's method, but convert the post to a page perhaps?

Otherwise, use the Exclude Pages SEO plug-in to exclude the other pages from navigation or hide them.

Gold Mike · Nov 18, 2011

Ultimate Category Excluder

wgn_white · Nov 18, 2011

create home.php at your theme directory.
Copy codes from index.php of your theme.

Then you can start editing the home.php it will be your static homepage.

CyberSEO · Nov 18, 2011

alaltaierii said:
I cannot select a static page from there because that is a POST not a page and it's not listed there.

Is it so hard to:

delete the original PAGE?
create the new POST with the same content, same name and the same slug?

Some people can rise a problem from nothing *shrug*

tylerdale80 · Nov 18, 2011

Create a new page with the exact content as the post and set it as static. Create a exact-slugname-file-as-old-post.php file with 301 redirect to homepage. Del the old post and upload the php file to your wordpress folder. This will prevent you from having duplicate content in the same site while redirecting your linkjuice of that post to your homepage.

neo3187 · Nov 18, 2011

Set the Posts Per Page to 1 and Sticky the Post you want to be displayed

alaltaierii · Nov 18, 2011

thanks for your tips guys.
I also found a nice plugin that helped me: Post Type Switcher
With that you can change a page to a post or a post to a Page very easy.

mr_vampire · Nov 18, 2011

We can do this in General setting of reading in Wordpress

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