How To Create and Design a Blog Page in WordPress │Elementor

If your homepage is your blog page, then skip the next part. 

Before you can move on to creating the blog page, you need to create a separation between the homepage and the blog page so that the homepage does not show recent posts. 

If this is a new website, you do this by creating two pages, labeled Home and Blog. If you already have a homepage, you don’t need to create it, you’ll have to create only the blog page and skip to step 3. 

1. Go to the WordPress dashboard and select the Pages tab. 
2. Then, create the two new pages. 
3. Now, select the Settings tab in your dashboard, then the Reading tab, and under the section ‘your homepage displays’, choose the option A static page. 
4. Now, you can assign the pages you’ve created. Assign the homepage to the Homepage option and the blog page to the Posts page option.
5. Also, don’t forget to add this page to your navigation menu, by going to the Appearance tab, and selecting Menus. 

You’ve done it. You created a blog page, where all your new posts will be visible. 

But now comes the difficult part, especially when using the native WordPress customization options. Now you need to make sure that your blog page is inviting, easy to read, and easy to navigate through, and this is where those basic elements that we’ve mentioned come into play. 

When using the default WordPress option, these aspects often depend heavily on the theme you choose. Regardless, you often have little to no real power to change the many little aspects you want. You may be required to use code to change something or add something. Or you may require an external plugin. 

For example, the header and footer depend on the theme, with most being hard or impossible to customize (unless you know how to code). 

Or, for example, if you want to add the filtering option, you may require an external plugin, like the ones we’ve covered here. 

Even more vexing is the fact that you have little control over the visual representation of the posts themselves, their location, their spacing, design, and other elements. 

You are most likely to have a fixed design, unless, again, you buy a premium theme, or have extensive coding knowledge. That’s why we recommend that you use Elementor.