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I found this example here of creating a custom blog post page:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-create-a-custom-homepage-in-wordpress/

1. I created a blog page under Pages > Add New

2. Under Template, I select "Blog"

3. Note that I created a blog.php file in my custom theme that has this content:

   query('posts_per_page=5'.'&paged='.$paged); while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

4. In settings > reading, under "Front page displays", I set "Posts page:" to "Blog"

Now I view my blog page in browser, it just renders all my posts. But it doesnt echo the "Hello World" and if I remove the code from blog.php, it has no effect! It still just renders all the posts. And then I try to add a custom query:

<?php /* Template Name: Blog */ ?> <?php global $wpdb; $content = $wpdb->get_row( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = %s LIMIT 1 ", 'header_post' ) ); echo $content->post_content; ?> 

And again it ignores this and just renders all the posts with post_type of post and a post_status of publish.

Obviously, the code in my blog.php is being ignored. Why?

This is what it currently looks like too (post date is missing, comment is missing):

http://i49.tinypic.com/2caq0g.jpg

I made changes to the index.php in my theme:

<?php $temp = $wp_query; $wp_query= null; $wp_query = new WP_Query(); $wp_query->query('posts_per_page=1'.'&paged='.$paged); while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?> 

and still no effect

I found this example here of creating a custom blog post page:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-create-a-custom-homepage-in-wordpress/

1. I created a blog page under Pages > Add New

2. Under Template, I select "Blog"

3. Note that I created a blog.php file in my custom theme that has this content:

   query('posts_per_page=5'.'&paged='.$paged); while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

4. In settings > reading, under "Front page displays", I set "Posts page:" to "Blog"

Now I view my blog page in browser, it just renders all my posts. But it doesnt echo the "Hello World" and if I remove the code from blog.php, it has no effect! It still just renders all the posts. And then I try to add a custom query:

<?php /* Template Name: Blog */ ?> <?php global $wpdb; $content = $wpdb->get_row( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = %s LIMIT 1 ", 'header_post' ) ); echo $content->post_content; ?> 

And again it ignores this and just renders all the posts with post_type of post and a post_status of publish.

Obviously, the code in my blog.php is being ignored. Why?

This is what it currently looks like too (post date is missing, comment is missing):

I made changes to the index.php in my theme:

<?php $temp = $wp_query; $wp_query= null; $wp_query = new WP_Query(); $wp_query->query('posts_per_page=1'.'&paged='.$paged); while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?> 

and still no effect.

I found this example here of creating a custom blog post page:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-create-a-custom-homepage-in-wordpress/

1. I created a blog page under Pages > Add New

2. Under Template, I select "Blog"

3. Note that I created a blog.php file in my custom theme that has this content:

   query('posts_per_page=5'.'&paged='.$paged); while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

4. In settings > reading, under "Front page displays", I set "Posts page:" to "Blog"

Now I view my blog page in browser, it just renders all my posts. But it doesnt echo the "Hello World" and if I remove the code from blog.php, it has no effect! It still just renders all the posts. And then I try to add a custom query:

<?php /* Template Name: Blog */ ?> <?php global $wpdb; $content = $wpdb->get_row( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = %s LIMIT 1 ", 'header_post' ) ); echo $content->post_content; ?> 

And again it ignores this and just renders all the posts with post_type of post and a post_status of publish.

Obviously, the code in my blog.php is being ignored. Why?

This is what it currently looks like too (post date is missing, comment is missing):

http://i49.tinypic.com/2caq0g.jpg

I found this example here of creating a custom blog post page:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-create-a-custom-homepage-in-wordpress/

1. I created a blog page under Pages > Add New

2. Under Template, I select "Blog"

3. Note that I created a blog.php file in my custom theme that has this content:

   query('posts_per_page=5'.'&paged='.$paged); while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

4. In settings > reading, under "Front page displays", I set "Posts page:" to "Blog"

Now I view my blog page in browser, it just renders all my posts. But it doesnt echo the "Hello World" and if I remove the code from blog.php, it has no effect! It still just renders all the posts. And then I try to add a custom query:

<?php /* Template Name: Blog */ ?> <?php global $wpdb; $content = $wpdb->get_row( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = %s LIMIT 1 ", 'header_post' ) ); echo $content->post_content; ?> 

And again it ignores this and just renders all the posts with post_type of post and a post_status of publish.

Obviously, the code in my blog.php is being ignored. Why?

This is what it currently looks like too (post date is missing, comment is missing):

http://i49.tinypic.com/2caq0g.jpg

I made changes to the index.php in my theme:

<?php $temp = $wp_query; $wp_query= null; $wp_query = new WP_Query(); $wp_query->query('posts_per_page=1'.'&paged='.$paged); while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?> 

and still no effect

I found this example here of creating a custom blog post page:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-create-a-custom-homepage-in-wordpress/

1. I created a blog page under Pages > Add New

2. Under Template, I select "Blog"

3. Note that I created a blog.php file in my custom theme that has this content:

   query('posts_per_page=5'.'&paged='.$paged); while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

4. In settings > reading, under "Front page displays", I set "Posts page:" to "Blog"

Now I view my blog page in browser, it just renders all my posts. But it doesnt echo the "Hello World" and if I remove the code from blog.php, it has no effect! It still just renders all the posts. And then I try to add a custom query:

<?php /* Template Name: Blog */ ?> <?php global $wpdb; $content = $wpdb->get_row( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = %s LIMIT 1 ", 'header_post' ) ); echo $content->post_content; ?> 

And again it ignores this and just renders all the posts with post_type of post and a post_status of publish.

Obviously, the code in my blog.php is being ignored. Why?

I found this example here of creating a custom blog post page:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-create-a-custom-homepage-in-wordpress/

1. I created a blog page under Pages > Add New

2. Under Template, I select "Blog"

3. Note that I created a blog.php file in my custom theme that has this content:

   query('posts_per_page=5'.'&paged='.$paged); while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

4. In settings > reading, under "Front page displays", I set "Posts page:" to "Blog"

Now I view my blog page in browser, it just renders all my posts. But it doesnt echo the "Hello World" and if I remove the code from blog.php, it has no effect! It still just renders all the posts. And then I try to add a custom query:

<?php /* Template Name: Blog */ ?> <?php global $wpdb; $content = $wpdb->get_row( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = %s LIMIT 1 ", 'header_post' ) ); echo $content->post_content; ?> 

And again it ignores this and just renders all the posts with post_type of post and a post_status of publish.

Obviously, the code in my blog.php is being ignored. Why?

This is what it currently looks like too (post date is missing, comment is missing):

http://i49.tinypic.com/2caq0g.jpg