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“I then changed my home page to it’s own page and specified another page for my blog.”
@hkcharlie What do you mean by you changed your home page to it’s own page? a) To a Page you created and set in Readings as static front page? b) Or created a home.php and now can’t find your main blog page?
For a) you might want to try @dwenaus solution.
For b) you might want to use Nathan Rice solution #2. Just make sure to delete the spacing between < ?php in the posted code