blog-navigation inside home-block

[Franzi Kreis]

Hello Bill,

the first block of my home-page shows my latest blog-entry: http://www.franzikreis.com
Now I wonder if I can also display a navigation, so that it is possible to switch to older blog posts inside this first home-block?
(If I view the blog seperately, I can switch to older posts with the navigation: http://www.franzikreis.com/blog/)

It would be perfect to display an arrow and the word “previous” in the right corner of my post on the homeblock.

Thank’s in advance,
Franzi

[Bill Robbins]

Hi Franzi,

Good question. One way you could do that would be to add in a text widget to that home block and then place a link to your blog there. In the text widget, use this code for the link:

<a href="http://www.franzikreis.com/blog/">Previous &rsaquo;</a>

(Make sure to grab that snippet directly from the support site and not the notification email.)

That would be the easiest way to add in a link to the full blog beflow your posts.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Have a great weekend,
Bill

[Franzi Kreis]

Hello Bill,

thank’s for your answer!

The previous-link works pretty well, only problem: in the end I don’t want a link to the whole blog, but only to the previous post which should appear INSIDE the homeblock in order to allow my site-visitors to skip through all my blog-posts without leaving my home-block-page.
It would also make sense to display the posting-date like it is shown on the real blog-page.

Is there a possibility to do this?

Thank you very much in advance!
Best,
Franzi

[Bill Robbins]

Hi Franzi,

There may be a plugin that does something like that. If you want people to be able to view additional posts on the front page by clicking a previous button, you’ll probably need some type of slider to do that. Unfortunately I don’t a recommendation for a plugin to handle that for you. There may be a great one, but I don’t know what it is to point you to it.

Sorry,
Bill

[Franzi Kreis]

Hi Bill,

thank you for your quick answer and no worries!
I will keep you updated if I manage to find a Blog-Post-Slider-Plugin that solves the problem.
Maybe I also just leave your “Previous”-Link as this also works pretty well (and it might be anyway nicer to view longer blog posts on a seperated site).

Enjoy your weekend!
Franzi.

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