I'm creating a theme for my portfolio site. After a some time of trial and error research and almosts I'm stuck.

It's going to be very minimal site in content, therefore I decided to create a one page website. I'm using `get_pages($args);` to display each page in my front-page.php file.

This works great. Now here's where I'm stuck...I'd like to use a page to display my blog posts, which would be included in my one page flow and be called by get_page(). 

So far I've tried the most documented method I can find; which is to change the page that's used to display posts in Settings>Reading.

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I have a static home page (front-page.php) which I've made a page template declared it in a page called home. Enabling me to set it in the reading settings, and I've created a page called blog for the same reason(this has template set to defualt).

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My posts are not being loaded into the blog page set here.

I've read that a custom query could be interfering but I've checked this and it isn't the case in my situation.

Has anyone come across this type of situation before? Or have any idea's where I'm going wrong?

Thanks in advance