Please help a newb

[They_Move]

I'm trying to create a static homepage and then a separate page for my blog posts. However, I cannot find any tutorial on YT to help me with this...also How do I make the damn post live for others to view? I'm completely overwhelmed at this point and can't find what I need. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Persuasion89]

I'm trying to create a static homepage and then a separate page for my blog posts. However, I cannot find any tutorial on YT to help me with this...also How do I make the damn post live for others to view? I'm completely overwhelmed at this point and can't find what I need. Any help would be much appreciated.

You build your page and then in the main wordpress dashboard find:

Appearance > Customize

that will take you to your theme settings, where you can adjust your homepage settings. You will need a page published to pick from the drop down though.

As far as making a page live, you should be live once you hit the publish button in the elementor editor. If it isn't you'll need to check the page settings and see if maybe it's set to private. you do this in the pages section before you click into "Edit with elementor" or in the elementor editor with the little gear icon in the bottom left.

 

[They_Move]

Thank you...I did figure out some of this...but then I got a "no content" error and couldn't edit with Elementor...
I just rebuilt the posts page...and that solved it. I'm learning mostly trial by error. Thanks for the reply!

 

[kennethangbc]

I would like to create an Elementor template for my blog posts but the tutorials for single posts are for Pro. Is there a way using the free Elementor plugin?

 

[They_Move]

Have you tried creating one with just the free Elementor plug-in? I wasn't aware that building a template was a Pro feature.

 

[kacpersky87]

Try this tutorial:

It helped me a lot!

 

[kacpersky87]

Sorry for the previous comment. Wrong link. Here You go:

 

[Stevo]

So to keep your posts alive you can do many things. you have to deal with your topic and then find a suitable advertising method.
For example, deal with Google AdWords, links on your or other websites, SEO, social media advertising, forums in which you can simply participate on your topic, how to increase the conversion rate, usability.
In general, I would say you have to be very patient and concentrate on your content and who should read it. (Target group)