How to Create a Static Home Page

How to Create a Static Home Page

If you want the home page of your site to display a static WordPress page, rather than your most recent blog posts, this video will show you how to change that setting in your WordPress dashboard. Perhaps you want visitors to your site to see a welcome message rather than your latest blog entries when they visit the home page of your site; or maybe you want to setup the home page of your site to be a "squeeze page" (where you capture a person's name and email), and you want to have a separate link in your menu bar to the blog ...

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2 Responses to “How to Create a Static Home Page”

  1. PeterB Says:

    Your a lifesaver I was ripping my hair out trying to figure out how to get a static homepage on my wp blog.

  2. Fred Says:

    Great Tip here Ben. One question I have is if you already
    have a blog setup with lots of posts, categories, etc. is this
    still possible to do with making a static page and a Blog Page
    without it messing up your site? I hope to get a response back on
    this subject. Thanks Fred.

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