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Now that we have our custom post types up
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running, let's take a look of how to set
up an entire blog section for our site.

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This will involve a couple different
templates including ones that

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we use to list the blog posts, to display
a single blog post.

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And to display an archive of different
related types of posts.

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If we come back to our original static
template,

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we can see that we have a nice layout
set-up for blog section of the site.

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This is a two column layout with a title,
excerpt, images if we need, and

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then some meta-information that can go
below it.

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Followed by the post itself.

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So, what we're going to do now is we're
going to create the template that will

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control this blog listing page.

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And that template is called home.php.

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Since the template is very similar to our
left sidebar template,

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we're going to start with this and do a
File > Save As for home.php.

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We can remove this markup at the top that
tells what the template name is.

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And since we are using the naming
convention of home.php WordPress will

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know to use this template as the home page
for our blog.

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So if we come back to our site and into
pages,

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we need to make sure that we have a blog
page.

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Fact what, we'll add some content here cuz
I'll show you.

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Now remember when we set up our custom
post type for

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the main portfolio page we selected a
template.

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However WordPress will know that we
automatically want to

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use the home.php template for this.

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By us coming in to customize and making
sure that

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we're telling it right here that our posts
page is going to be home.php.

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So we Save and Publish that.

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And now when we, oops, it looks like we
set it up to

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have our static page, I'm sorry, we want
this to be on the blog.

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There we go, front page is static and
posts page is blog.

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Good, and then we'll come back.

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Looks like we have to add blog to our menu
here.

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And put it after the About section.

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And then we come back and view our site.

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Now we could see our blog, and there we
go.

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We have our two blog posts that are
entered in the back end,

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if you've added more or less blog posts,
you'll see those show up.

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However, it's using the mark up of just
having a header tag.

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And then, the content below it.

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So there's no link here, that is going to
a particular page.

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What we need to do now, is make sure that
the mark up is correct for

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their particular post.

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And if we come back to our template, that
includes having a link here,

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some sorta excerpt.

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And then a little metadata followed by the
post itself.

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But, what we're going to do is just
display an excerpt of the data instead of

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the full post there.

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So, that you can see the different ways to
do that.

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So, now lets jump into the next level of
code that we'll be using for

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this template.