For a blog I'm working on I have plans to make the homepage a static page and want to transfer the latest blog posts to a new page. I'm sure this can be easily done but have no idea how to do it. I'm assuming I have to create a new wordpress page and add some php code to the page. Any insight would be greatly appreciated
look: WordPress's index and archive files are almost the same. The main difference between them is that archive page will show the excerpt of the post, and the index file shows the entire article. You can edit your archive.php file to show the entire post and you can link people to archive if they want to read your latest blog posts
Thanks but I found an easy way to do it without mucking around with code. If you make the homepage a static page then you can set the latest posts to display on a different page. Within the wp admin go to Settings > Reading.