Rich

Thanks for the reply, Eric. I’m going to play around with the Portfolio page templates and see what I can come up with. If worse comes to worse, I might try going with a static homepage that essentially hardcode posts by category. The immediate goal is to lower the bounce rate, which I’m guessing is the result of visitors not immediately finding posts that match their particular interests. I’ll post back on what I find out.

OK, get it resolved. I had a look in home.php and saw that the WP loop is removed if any of the home page widgets are active. I was sure that I wasn’t using any of them, but placed a print call to make sure. The test indicated that indeed one or more were active. Somehow, perhaps leftover from playing with the Genesis framework, a text widget was active for the Home 3 widget. Removed that and now posts and sidebar are appearing.

Thanks, scooby. I managed to get the latest posts to show after digging around the forum yesterday. I was able to get the latest posts to show when I create a “Blog” page using the blog template and then setting it as the static home page. This doesn’t appear to be the recommended way, but it’s the only thing that has worked for me so far. It seems backwards from what I’m used to with using WP all these years.

Link to my site after adding a Blog page:

http://practicalcarbs.com