WordPress Training: Creating a static front page for your blog
If you decide that you’d like to have a front page that your readers will see when they first arrive at your wordpress site rather than having them taken directly at your blog you can achieve this with a few quick steps.
First up, make yourself a new page from the Pages> Add New menu. You might call it “home”, ‘welcome” or whatever floats your boat. Put whatever you’d like to have on your front page here… and save. Now, add another page, and this time call it something like “blog”, “news”, or however you’d like to describe the blog part of your wordpress site if you intend to use it at all. No need to add any content here. Just save the blank page. Right, now head over to the settings menu and select the reading option. Up at the top here are your front page options. All you need to do now is click the radio button for a static page, rather than your latest post. From the drop down menu, choose the name of the front page you created, and for the posts/pages option select the blog or news page that you made. Click on save changes, and you’re good to go.
Your blog is tucked away, and your readers will land on your new homepage. Remember, if you don’t want a blog at all you can make a site entirely from pages. You don’t need to select anything from the posts/pages dropdown menu at all, or indeed, create a blog/news page
About the Author
Andy Johnson has been on the Internet since the its dawn(ie his first computer program was recorded on cassette tape) and his first hard drive cost about as much his current MacBook. His first byline was in 1993 for a local newspaper rag he eventually helmed, and his last “real job” was at a computer start up which ended when it ended. Throughout it all he’s freelanced and blogged. Now he is mesmerized by Search Engine Optimization forever trying to “rise to the top” for the right reasons. He’s been married to his wife Julia for as long as he can remember and has two lovely, wonderful children. He looks forward to sharing the latest in the technical best for all the online entrepreneurs.