How to non demonstrate whatever posts on your blog's abode page, using Blogger

You tin ship away laid your weblog upwardly hence that no posts are shown on the principal hide - provided yous take maintain used some of the other "home page" approaches to laissez passer readers other ways of getting to your content.
Previously I've explained how to only exhibit i postal service on the principal page of your blog.

But some people who desire to give their weblog a abode page go farther than that, as well as don't exhibit whatever posts on the principal hide at all.   (Remember, the principal hide is where people who navigate to your blog, rather than to posts inside it, go.)

This sounds similar a foreign matter to produce - afterwards all, blogs are almost posts.

But genuinely it's fine, provided yous utilization another tools to permit readers motion roughly the blog.  I've made a 150+ page weblog this way, as well as it plant real nicely because I take maintain organised the data as well as used some index-pages (containing lists of bus-routes, suburbs, maps etc) amongst tables that link to many other posts.


How to exhibit no (ie zero, 0) posts on the principal screen

Some people desire to produce this, equally operate of the procedure of giving their weblog a abode page.  It's non possible if your weblog has a Dynamic thene, but tin ship away survive done for blogs amongst Layout themes.

There are at to the lowest degree 2 ways of doing it.

Option 1 - utilization a custom re-direct for your home-page

Make a novel Page (Pages > New Page) as well as add together the textile which yous desire to exhibit on your principal screen.    Publish this page.

Take a note of the URL of the Page that yous utilization created.

Go to Settings > Search preferences > Errors as well as re-directions . Custom re-directs

Click Edit as well as hence New re-direct

In the dialog box which opens:

  • Enter a back-slash (ie   /  )into the source (From) box.
  • Enter the URL of the page that yous noted before into the 2nd (To) box
  • In the To box, take the blog-address, because Blogger already adds that for you.
    Eg if your URL is     http:/www.myBlog.com/p/home.html
    as well as hence merely move into           /p/home.html

    (note that yous driblet dead along the backslash (/) merely before the P.
Click the Permanent checkbox.

Click Save just nether the entry yous merely made - it straightaway looks similar this:



Click Save changes.


Job Done!   Anyone who goes to your blog's abode page volition straightaway become automatically to the alternative page yous made - as well as the number is that no posts are shown on the abode page.



Option 2 - utilization the Posts as well as Comments setting

Choose the Settings > Posts as well as Comments panel from the left sidebar.

Enter nil (0) into the Show at most field
Click Save Settings in the move yesteryear correct mitt corner of the screen.


    About this method

    The method inward Option 2 works:   no posts are shown on your abode page.

    But yesteryear default, nothting else is shown, either.    Unless yous take maintain steps to avoid it, your readers volition meet a grayness box maxim "0 Posts" when they await at your blog's principal URL.   



    Some of the things yous tin ship away produce to avoid this include hiding the "showing posts amongst label XXX" message, as well as creating a gadget that exclusively shows on the "home" page.


    Recommended option

    The custom re-direct pick is likely the best approach - as well as is sure enough what I've used for my blogs recently:   it's clean, as well as doesn't necessitate whatever exceptional messing roughly amongst gadgets etc to seat content onto the "home" page.

    But in that place may survive cases where the 2nd pick is ameliorate - as well as I take maintain late confirmed that it even hence works.



    Related Articles

    Limiting your weblog to exclusively take maintain i postal service on the principal page

    Giving your weblog a home page

    What are dynamic persuasion themes?

    Blogger topic types
    .
    Using tables inward your blog

    Displaying a gadget exclusively on the abode page

    Popular posts from this blog

    The Ten-Minute-Guide to starting a blog

    Image
    This article is a fast-and-furious guide to starting a weblog - amongst a focus on getting started rather than researching to the nth degree. Months ago, I started a properly researched article near "how to started amongst blogging". It's withal a operate inward progress, too when it eventually gets finished it volition get got some nifty advice near researching blog-concepts too choosing nifty names. But today I needed a quick-and-dirty version, for someone who doesn't ask SEO or a fancy name. Here's what I shared amongst them. How to acquire started amongst making a blog Know your objectives Think near what yous desire to do, what yous desire to write about, too what yous desire to attain from it.  Write this down. Be prepared to revisit these objectives every fourth dimension yous ask to brand a determination near something.  Imagine yous ask to select betwixt a girly-pink looking template or rugged-outdoors one.  Simple - precisely hold back
    Read more

    How to uncovering the URL for a moving-picture exhibit inwards Google Photos

    Image
    This article describes how to larn the URL or mesh address of a moving painting inward Google Photos, as well as the divergence betwixt Google's shareable links as well as URLs. Google Photos is a tool that aid bloggers (and everyone else) to larn by their moving painting collections. It replaces Google+ Photos, as well as plant with Picasa-web-albums.   You tin read to a greater extent than most it here . In Google Photos, at that spot are 2 dissimilar types of web-address for a photo. One is the URL , as well as this tin live on used to refer to pictures from Blogger, or from other tools that desire a link that exactly shows the photo, eg Twitter, Google Maps.  This is the traditional style of internet-address for a photo. The other is the shareable link.   This is what Google Photos provides from the Share function.   Shareable links tin live on used inward Facebook, as well as other places where the photograph that is beingness shared is displayed inside a web-d
    Read more

    Understanding Google Accounts

    Image
    This article is almost Google accounts:  what they are- too aren't, how to access them, too what the account-names await like.   Blogger, Google too Google+ accounts Once upon a fourth dimension (pre 2006), at that spot was a website on the meshwork called Blogger.   People created an work organisation human relationship on Blogger, too and thus used it to brand a weblog - which was owned past times their Blogger account. Then Google (the companionship that made the search engine) purchased Blogger.   They wanted to integrate their products, thus Blogger users had to alter their master copy Blogger accounts to "Google accounts", which silent had a Blogger profile.  Google were pretty dainty almost this:   they kept back upwards old, unconverted Blogger accounts upwards til 2011, but eventually said that no to a greater extent than conversions were possible. At the time, really few people understood the departure betwixt Google-the-company too Google-the-searc
    Read more