How to Add Blog Posts to Pages in WordPress The EASY Way

Do you want to add blog posts to a page on your WordPress website?

By default, most WordPress themes show blog posts on the homepage.

But you might want to:

Move posts to a blog page and have a custom homepage
Show different blog posts on different pages
Add a list of posts at the bottom of a page

Whatever your goal is, in this tutorial, I will show you how to add blog posts to pages in WordPress for beginners, step by step.

How to Add Blog Posts to Pages in WordPress

This method is best used when you want to have a custom homepage and a separate blog page on your WordPress website – like I have on this site.

If that’s your goal, follow the steps below and I will show you how to easily do that.

Step 1: Create Two New Pages

First, you need to create two new pages in WordPress:

Home
Blog

To create a new page, go to Pages >> Add New. Name your page anything you want and click the Publish button.

You don’t have to add any content to the blog page. WordPress will automatically add blog posts to the page for you in step two.

You can also leave the homepage blank and add the content later IF YOU ARE NOT getting any website visitors right now.

But if traffic is visiting your blog, I recommend creating your homepage content before we continue.

Step 2: Update the WordPress Settings

Next, go to Settings >> Reading

Add blog page to WordPress reading settings

Under the ‘your homepage displays‘ section:

Select a static page
Choose your new homepage
Choose your new blog page
Save your changes

Now open up your website in a new browser window and you’ll no longer see blog posts on the front page. You will see your custom homepage instead.

All that’s left to do now is add the new blog page to the navigation menu so readers can easily find it.

Step 3: Add the Blog Page to the Navigation Menu

To add your new blog page to the navigation menu …

Go to Appearance >> Menus

Then:

Select a menu to edit
Add your new blog page
Drag and drop the blog page to your desired location
Save your changes

Note: how your new blog page looks is determined by your WordPress theme. To customize it go to Appearance >> Customize.

How to Put Blog Posts on Different Pages in WordPress

Instead of having all your posts on one blog page, you may want to add select blog posts to different pages, organized into topics. This is good for both SEO and user experience.

There are a few different ways you can achieve this, including:

Category archive pages
Drag and drop page builders
WordPress plugins
Gutenberg editor

Below I will show you how to add blog posts to pages in WordPress using each of these different methods. Choose the method that best suits you.

Method 1: Category Archive Pages

When you assign a blog post to a category in WordPress …

WordPress creates a category archive page that has only the posts in that specific category added to it.

For example, a category on my WordPress website is WordPress tutorials.

On that page, you will only find content about WordPress Tutorials – not WordPress plugins – WordPress themes – WordPress hosting – or anything else.

This is the easiest way to add blog posts to pages in WordPress because it’s done for you automatically when you publish a post!

So all you have to do is add the category archive page(s) to your WordPress navigation menu the same way you would add a page.

Screeshot of how to add posts to pages in WordPress using category templates

Method 2: Page Builders

Although using category archive pages is the easiest way to add blog posts to pages in WordPress, there is no easy way to customize archive pages.

So if you want to:

Change how the page looks
Optimize the page for SEO
Select the exact posts to display
Change the order of posts

Then using a page builder is my recommended method.

Personally, I prefer using Beaver Builder because in my experience:

It doesn’t slow down your site
It is easy to use compared to other page builders
It’s compatible with almost every theme and plugin

But you can use any page builder of your choice like Thrive Architect and Elementor. Whichever works best for you.

For the purposes of this tutorial though, I will show you how to add blog posts to pages in WordPress using Beaver Builder.

To get started, purchase the Beaver Builder standard license.

Install, active, and license the plugin. See this guide for further information.

Now, to go Pages >> Add New >> Launch Beaver Builder

In the top right corner, click the + icon to open the panel. Select Rows.

Drag and drop ‘One Column‘ onto the page.

Switch to the Modules tab (next to Rows).

Scroll to the bottom module and drag and drop the posts module to the row you just added.

A configuration window will open. Have a play with the settings on each tab to get the posts looking how you want. See the documentation for help, but first …

There’s one setting I want to bring to your attention.

How to add different posts to different pages with beaver builder

On the content tab in the filter section, you can choose to display:

Specific posts by searching for the post titles
All posts within a specific WordPress category
All posts that have specific tags assigned to them
And posts published by a specific author

When you’ve finished with the settings, save and publish your page. Then add it to your navigation menu for readers to easily find.

Method 3: WordPress Plugins

There are also plugins you can use to add blog posts to pages in WordPress.

To name a few:

Install and activate the plugin. See my guide: how to install WordPress plugins step by step.

For the purposes of this tutorial, we’ll use WP Show Posts. Watch the video below to learn how to add blog posts to pages in WordPress using this plugin.

Method 4: The Gutenberg Editor

If you’ve already upgraded from the Classic WordPress editor to Gutenberg, you can use the latest posts widget.

Open up the page you want to add posts to and search for ‘posts’. The widget will appear. Click on it to select.

By default, five of your most recent posts are added to the page in chronological order.

As you can see from the screenshot above, it’s just a boring list.

But in the block editor to the right, you can:

Add post content (excerpt or full content)
Display post dates
Display and align featured post images
Sort the order of posts (old to new, a to z, etc)
Display posts from a specific category only
Change the number of posts from 5 to 100

Like this:

Depending on your goal, I don’t recommend using the Gutenberg editor because it’s VERY basic. I’d say too basic.

This method is best used if you just want to add a bullet point list of posts to the bottom of a page, or within blog post content.

Which Method Is Right For You?

I hope this article has helped you learn how to add blog posts to pages in WordPress.

You have learned:

How to add posts to a dedicated blog page
How to add different posts to different pages

You also learned that there are a few different methods you can use to add posts to pages. Including:

WordPress reading settings
Category archieve settings
Drap and drop page builders
WordPress post to page plugins
The Gutenberg editor

If your goal is to create a custom homepage for your WordPress website and add blog posts to a blog page, you’ll want to use the WordPress reading settings.

But if you want to add different posts to different pages, using Beaver Builder or another page builder of your choice like Thrive Architect is recommended.

That way, you have full control over how your page and posts look, and you can optimize it for SEO. You can’t do that with category archive pages.

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