my problem is that I just want two posts on the home page, and when you click through the pagination, 10 pages on each (supposedly, quite simple). But I'm getting two posts on all the pages, not just the home page. I've read countless articles, and none appear to have my problem. They say to use this:
or something similar, and I've copied from the WP site exactly, and changed it to:
I've tried every iteration of the formatting. And I can't even get this to work on the default Wordpress theme. Can anyone advise me how this can't work on an "out-of-the-box" WP theme? I reinstalled a whole new Wordpress package, used the default theme, did not touch a thing other than the functions.php file (and created a few test posts obviously). I understand I can create a query object, and query_posts is awful. But want to try this "simple" option first.
Thanks in advance.