Is there a way not to show posts on Homepage of Wordpress?

I want to show only the widgets like recent posts and featured, etc. Is there a way to do this?

thanks!

 

Most of my blogs are just sort of sitting around currently but I seem to recall this is built in to the admin panel finally.

Here is how you should be able to do it.
http://www.last-child.com/creating-a-static-home-page-and-dynamic-blog-page-in-wordpress-23/

hope that helps,
Nigel

 

thanks for the reply.

i dont wanna show a static page either. i want to use that space to show the widgets (recent posts, recent comments, etc.) only

 

You can use a "conditional tag" to customize what code gets displayed on which pages. Its all going to depend on the widgets and theme you are currently using and how they are coded... but it would go something like this:

The current code producing the posts should look something like the following on page.php:

		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
		<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
			<div class="entry">
				<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>

				<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>

			</div>
		</div>
		<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
	<?php edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '<p>', '</p>'); ?>

Code (markup):

You will want to wrap that inside a condition tag so that your widgets display ONLY if home page... if not a home page... it will display the code after the "else" line:

if (is_home()) {
        // PLACE WIDGET CODE HERE

} else {
        // PLACE POST CODE IN THIS SPOT

}

Code (markup):

More info on this is here:
codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

 

wow! thanks a lot.

will try to try this.

 

Good if your question is answered but can't a recent posts plugin solve that?

 

it wont, actually. a recent post plugin is a recent post plugin.

 

Haven't heard of conditional tags, looking into it now.. thanks.

 

create new page in wp and set as home page by going settings > reading > static page > select ur page.

u can check my recipe blog is an example.

 

@jalpari. thanks but thats not what i mean.

@scoopy82

it worked! man, you're my hero.