WordPress How To: A Static Home Page
Published on August 22, 2014
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4 Steps To Making Your Home Page A Static Page
When building out your WordPress website you have the option of having your “Home” page a static page or having your blogs show here. This is very much a personal preference but let’s assume you want a static page, here’s how you set it up.
Step # 1: Log in to your WordPress Dashboard.
Step # 2:
2-1: Go to “Pages”
2-2: create a “Home” page. This could be the sample page that you simply rename or if you have deleted that, create a new page.
Step # 3: Click on “Appearance” and then “Customize.”
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Step # 4
4-1: Click the arrow beside "Static Front Page" that drops down the menu
4-2: Under “Front Page Displays” click “A static Page”
4-3: Under “Front Page” select “Home”
4-4: Click “Save & Publish”
5.You can also save these setting under “Settings and Reading” in the Dashboard and as shown fig.2 in this clip below.
Remember to save any changes you have made!
Now you know how to easily make your "Home" page a static page.
Go to your site a check out what you have just accomplished.
If you want to remove the "Home" title on your page, or the titles of any other pages from showing, then you can get a WordPress plugin to prevent this showing. Check out my other blog posts how to do this for both pages and posts.
If you have any questions please leave them below.
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