Chimp-Simple Publishing

1. Login to WordPress as Admin
2. Make a new Page called Home and assign it Page Order 0.
3. Make another new Page called Blog and assign it Page Order 60. This will be the last Page item in your menu.
4. Select the Admin section and then the Options, Reading. Select the Home page as Front page and Blog page as posts page.
5. View the site.

Optional – Menu Themes

If you theme has a menu at the top make sure both of the pages show up. If not check the Header.php file and add wp_list_pages(’sort_column=menu_order&title_li=’) to add a menu.

Also, some themes have the “home” page listing hard coded in the Header.php. If you view your site and have two Home listings in the menu, then edit Header.php and delete the default home item.

Optional – Searching Pages and Posts

If you want to be able to search your pages and posts then
you should install the Search Pages 2.0 Plugin.
With this plugin installed you will be able to search for information stored in the pages as well as the posts.

Trade Secret: I number the pages (Page Order) in increments of 10. That way I can “insert” a new page if I need to between two other pages.

Key: The Page Order is key in this setup. This will determine what order the pages are displayed in the menu. You can go into Manage, Pages and change the Page Order at anytime.

Here is an example of the basic pages I setup for each site:

In this example, Home will be the 1^st page because
it has the lowest Page Order value of 0 and About will be the last with a Page
Order value of 60.

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