Comment on Stallion Responsive SEO Theme Layout Options by SEO Dave.

WordPress 2 Column Layouts If I’ve understood you correctly you want to use a static front page with recent posts as well.

I took a crack at putting something together (a page template with archives), but adding archives to a Page template didn’t work.

Try this.

Create a Post (not a Page) with the content you want on the home page.

Set the post to Format “Image” (the Image format shows the full content not an excerpt on archive pages).

Set the post as a Sticky post by clicking the Visibility “Edit” link and click “Stick this post to the front page”

If you have your home page set to the default layout

Settings >> Reading : Front page displays – “Your latest posts”

The post you made a Sticky post will be at the top in full and the most recent posts will show as excerpts below (assuming you haven’t used any of the post Formats that use more than an excerpt).

Doing the above will kind of give you what you want, though if you wanted comments on the home page that will be missing. Also the post will exist, so will be loaded in full on the home page and the post page, will also be shown in full on the category (and any tags) it was added to. If you don’t want that content as a separate post you could add a 301 redirect to the home page in your.htaccess file so when visitors click the link to the post they are redirected to the home page and Google etc… won’t index it.

David