Create A Custom WordPress Static Front Page

Posted by Jeff

on September 14, 2008

With the growing popularity of blogs everyday more people are getting familiar with, and comfortable using the various blogging platforms. With that webmasters are turning to content management systems like WordPress to power entire websites.

One of the options of WordPress is to choose a static front page, creating a page that shows the same content instead of the the blog loop. Most WordPress bloggers are familiar with this option, however a few things should be considered beforehand.

The steps to use a static front page are quite simple: first two pages (not posts) need to be created, one for the static front page and another for the blog loop. The static front page can have whatever title you want but I suggest you call it the title of your website. Add all the content on this page that you want to show on the front page. Title the blog page “Blog” with the same page slug. Add no content to the blog page.

Go to Settings, then the reading subpanel, select the static front page option and choose the respective pages to use from the drop down box. Now here is where your blog theme comes into play. If your theme has a navigation bar in the header, things can get a bit messy here and my require you to customize the theme.

The navigation bar on most WordPress themes have a Home or Blog link that point to the main URL and also show links to any additional pages created. So adding a Home page or Blog page to use the static front page option my show these links twice in the navigation bar. So you may want consider learning how to change this by hard coding the navigation bar in the themes header.php file.

Another thing to consider is the static front page itself and what you want it to look like. While you probably want it to have the same look as the rest of the site you may not want it to show the same sidebar items or the title of the page just above the content.

One thing I suggest changing, or actually removing, is the title of the the page that appears right above the content on the page. If you want the site to look like a static or “regular” website then you may want to remove this, especially if the title of the page is generic like “Home”.

You have two options for removing the title on the front page, one is to edit the page.php template to remove the title on all pages or create a custom page template to use for the static front page. The code to be removed from the page.php file should look something like this:

<h2 id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=’Permanent Link to “<?php the_title(); ?>”‘><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

You may also want to create a different sidebar for the static front page and this option would definitely require a different custom page template, another sidebar file and possibly some additional code added to the functions.php file.

As you can see using a static front page to run your website can be as easy as creating a few pages and changing a few options or you could get into some custom coding to really make it stand out and be different. All of the information you need to customize your WordPress powered site can be found online and I suggest starting at wordpress.org. One of the steps is covered here: How To Create A Custom WordPress Page Template

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Comments

Comment by Joel Drapper on September 14, 2008 @ 12:48 pm

Thanks for the tip! I might do this for my blog sometime.

Thanks again!

Comment by xHTML Coding on September 15, 2008 @ 8:24 am

This is a great way to customize Wordpress as a CMS.

I don’t really understand why most people think Wordpress is a blogging platform and is not fit for static sites or to be used as a CMS.

I still think Wordpress is the best platform out there!

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Thanks for the information, I was having some trouble with it.

I tried many things but there was no use.

The code worked fine, tried it now.

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Word press is really something more than a blog where you can also customizing the things which you’ve made and that is the best thing I’ve found in it. I’ll try for this.

Comment by Ipod Charger on October 16, 2008 @ 4:42 am

Word press is really something more than a blog where you can also customize the things which you’ve made and that is the best thing I’ve found in it.

I’ll try for this one.

Comment by Jon on October 29, 2008 @ 3:12 am

Thanks for the tip!

Comment by Busby SEO Test on December 3, 2008 @ 11:40 pm

use static content with wordpress is easy but it seem that not pretty well , as i know many people not use static page with wordpress !

Comment by Scott on December 4, 2008 @ 10:36 pm

In terms of SEO, what are the benefits of a Static front page?

PS. Thanks for the advice.

Comment by Jeff on December 5, 2008 @ 12:43 am

Scott I don’t think it matters if the front page is static or the typical blog loop.

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yeah.. thnkz !! and nice tip !!

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I am trying this on my entry for the Busby SEO Test blog. I will let you know how it goes.

Thanks for the advice.

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i am newbie here, just want to check what is the advantage using static page?

Comment by Jeff on January 3, 2009 @ 9:04 am

There is no real advantage using a static front page. Its a preference to use one depending on how you want to present your blog. Or if you what to use the blog more like a website.

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It helps a blogger a lot…tnx

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Its a preference to use one depending on how you want to present your blog.

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Thanks I have been wanting to do some thing like this with a few of my sites

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Nice post. Very useful. I have an blog powered by Wordpress. Static front page will definitely be an advantage to my site. Thanks for sharing the information.

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Thanks for the information. It’s nice to know that Wordpress will allow you to create a static front page… gives it the look/feel of a “real” website. Thanks!!

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Static front page could be something that Google prefers I suggest.

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I’m not even use static front page.,but thanks for this. I got a lot of info.

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Nice post. Very useful information. I don’t have a static front page yet. So I will give it a try and see. Thanks for sharing it with us. Cheers.

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Comment by Exposing Money Making Tips & Trick on March 3, 2009 @ 11:03 pm

I guess static homepage could increase SERP ranking right?

Jeff Replied:
March 4th, 2009 at 8:43 am

No I didn’t say that a static home page would increase SERP rankings and I doubt it will. I am not a Google Guru and even Google can’t (or wont) tell you that. What I will tell you is good, solid, original, link bait type content posted on on a consistent basis is what the people want. Do that on a consistent basis and you will have no problems. No matter if you use a static front page or not.

Comment by Jeff on March 4, 2009 @ 12:27 am

I left his comment to show everyone what what a Drive-By comment is. Aleif doesn’t know anything about proper punctuation, (didn’t even capitalize his name) and didn’t reference the post, nice try but I removed your link.

Next time try to actually contribute to the discussion or don’t bother leaving a comment.

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really helpful for creating a static page. worked for me

Comment by Kampanye Damai Pemilu Indonesia 2009 on March 11, 2009 @ 7:58 pm

Nice sharing… Thank you.
I’ll try to customize my theme to show up the static page

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this is exactly what i have been looking for forever. i guess its for wordpress.org, not .com thanks for the instructions, its so easy to use wordpress as a site, great technology.

Comment by tukang nggame on March 21, 2009 @ 8:29 am

is it will make our SEO better?

Jeff Replied:
March 21st, 2009 at 8:33 am

It has nothing to do with SEO. SEO is up to how WordPress is setup and used.

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Replied:
April 29th, 2009 at 10:20 am

Yea it ain’t got anything to do with SEO… You’ll just have regular home page instead of a blog..

Comment by Promotional products on March 22, 2009 @ 9:16 pm

Interesting. I really have found a static front page really nice as it does give a really different effect to the page before the homepage is shown. Also a flash intro would be also cool. Anyway, thanks for the information. I shall try this out and see. Thanks again.

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Comment by Bev on March 24, 2009 @ 7:13 pm

Thanks for the write up. I found it didn’t work without a bit of extra work. The blog page did not display correctly until I did the following:

- Give the main index page a template name
- Use that page template for the blog page
- Add query_posts above the main loop
- Set global $more = 0 before displaying the content.

Jeff Replied:
March 24th, 2009 at 7:38 pm

Bev, this post is a “general” guide and is not theme specific so I couldn’t possible cover all the thousands of different themes out there. And what is needed on your specific theme may not be the same for another.

Bev Replied:
March 24th, 2009 at 7:50 pm

I can certainly understand that. I thought my post might help others with the same problem.

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this is exactly what i have been looking for forever. i guess its for wordpress.org, not .com thanks for the instructions, its so easy to use wordpress as a site, great technology

Comment by shop on the web on March 26, 2009 @ 1:16 am

really interesting post. it will be really useful for people who need this. looking forward to see more of this kind.
thanks.

Comment by Jedug on March 29, 2009 @ 3:33 pm

is h2 have a same effect with h3,h4, and h5?

Jeff Replied:
March 29th, 2009 at 3:59 pm

It all depends on the theme, and usually all are different. If all the H tags were the same there wouldn’t be any need for so many of them now would there?

Comment by David on March 30, 2009 @ 6:14 am

Hello,

Thanks for sharing this. However it doesn’t really solve the main reason why people want to have a static page. Usually people want a static page so that they can display their content in a whole different way. Like for example problogger.net. His homepage is different from the content, however it also isn’t just “another” page.

Regards.

Jeff Replied:
March 30th, 2009 at 7:48 am

What does that even mean????

I didn’t know I needed to “Solve” why people want a static front page. Sorry next time I will try post everything about everything for everyone.

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Nice post…..that’s alternate static page from wordpress

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i’m using wp-sticky plugin to sticky my post

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Thanks for the information, I was having some trouble with it.

I tried many things but there was no use.

The code worked fine, tried it now.

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Great tutorial. I made a static page based on your posting with little modification.

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I didn’t know that a WP site/blog can have a static front page until I read this article, thanks for sharing such a great article and I’m always looking forward for the next article.

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Thanks for the information.. I was always wondering how to get a regular front page up rather then a blog. This is gonna help out a lot…

Comment by João Jerónimo on April 29, 2009 @ 1:09 pm

Thanks for sharing, although I think that leaving the default wordpress loop as the front page would be more SEO rich…

Comment by EDI on May 2, 2009 @ 4:22 am

I don’t think wordpress is as SEO friendly as many other blog platforms, but they are getting better at it.

Comment by The Agra Indian on May 6, 2009 @ 5:14 pm

Creating static html pages is good idea and you have explained every thing in a very simple manner but I am little bit in hesitation.

Is it effect the ranking in search engine result or Google page rank? And if the answer is yes then how, up or down.

Jeff Replied:
May 6th, 2009 at 6:10 pm

It depends on how you SEO the WordPress blog just as you do an HTML page. Basically correctly using the All In One SEO plugin and then all your other typical off page techniques.

Comment by DataCool on May 7, 2009 @ 1:33 am

the most popular around the world is wordpress and of course with the friendly seo we can make a nice static page with wordpress platform plus useful plugin seo wp. thanks for sharing these informations.

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I have some trouble with wordpess but this tips help me..thanks for sharing..

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this is what i’ve been looking for … thanks

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Bro. I just followed your static frontpage. Please look at my Internet Marketing blog, I used the static frontpage to display some of my post. And tanan! It’s now magazine looking. haha.

Thank you very much.

Comment by Wisata SEO Sadau on May 15, 2009 @ 5:26 am

oh thx for sharing. I just want to check what is the advantage using static page..

Comment by Korfan on May 15, 2009 @ 5:30 am

I’ve just made my own wordpress, but until now, I’m a bit confused about how to edit wordpress’HTML. Mybe later I’ll try this.

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Wordpress is powerful and highly configurable system if you can use it along with right addons and some tweaking.

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wordpress is very simple….

Vladimir Khontol Replied:
June 1st, 2009 at 11:08 am

though it’s pretty simple, but wordpress is so powerful. i like it very much.

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wordpress is very powerful blog engine,

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Well, never used static page before.. But it looks like interesting.. I’m gonna try it!

Comment by All About Babies on May 28, 2009 @ 11:07 pm

Static frontpage, it sounds interesting, but will our visitors think that our blog never been update? Because I’ve visited a blog with static frontpage, I thought that the blog never been update, but the fact is it constantly up date after I check its sitemap, maybe according to your explanation the navigation of the blog should be placed rightly. Anyway thank you for your explanation.

Jeff Replied:
May 29th, 2009 at 7:39 am

If the “Recent Posts” or more importantly the blogs RSS feed subscription options are strategically placed on an easily noticeable area of the sites sidebar then the visitors should be smart enough to figure it out. Of course you need to be smart enough to offer those options to keep your visitors up to date and interested…

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I am trying this on my entry for the Busby SEO Test blog. I will let you know how it goes.

Comment by Bayerischer Wald on June 2, 2009 @ 7:32 pm

Thanks Jeff for the tut to create static Pages in Wordpress.
Greets Bayerischer Wald

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It seems that static page useful only on several niche blog? Am I right?

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static page is SEO friendly

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what’s different between static page and non?

Comment by Bisnis Internet on June 6, 2009 @ 6:36 am

static page is better

Comment by rallye on June 7, 2009 @ 10:48 am

you need both, static and non static pages i think.

Comment by jr27ars on June 8, 2009 @ 5:12 pm

Thanks for the tip.
I was trying to figure this out and put many hours into. Thanks again.

Jeff Replied:
June 8th, 2009 at 5:20 pm

You have a WordPress blog but leave a Blogspot.com link on your comment? Ummm…. I’m thinking No Link For You!

Comment by Emma A on June 10, 2009 @ 7:35 am

I have a couple of wp blogs and a WPMU blog as well and I don’t know if it’s just on WPMU but they make it a lot easier to create a static home page – you simply put in the url or choose a precreated WP page from a drop down list.

Also, in response to Sukabumi who says a static page is SEO friendly, I would imagine it actually helps to have more dynamic content? I suppose it really depends on a blog which is more useful.

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Finally I found this trick, Thanks for sharing.

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A relly good post. Now we knew more about how to custom our wp static page with your tips. Thanks a lot.

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This trick help my wp blog… thanks…

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i have tried this tip and works well. thanks!

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The static front page can have whatever title you want but I suggest you call it the title of your website.

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Nice tips jeff, im learning on using wordpress as cms, still a litle blind about page template though

Comment by search engine optimization on July 17, 2009 @ 1:03 pm

Great post, this is very useful because many wordpress owners don’t want to have their home page always changing – they will want to sell a product or put something in front of visitors on each visit.

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I’ve been trying to make a static front page, this is the correct guide for me.

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It’s nice to know that Wordpress will allow you to create a static front page… gives it the look/feel of a “real” website. thanks for information.

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I have been searching for a tutorial on creating a static frontpage. Fortunately, i have found helpful guide in here. I am also wanna ask. Is static page more SEO friendly than non static page? Thanks before.

Jeff Replied:
July 28th, 2009 at 9:01 am

I don’t really know.

Comment by foto artis on July 30, 2009 @ 12:32 am

if you want to use static frontpage, the navigation of the blog should be placed rightly. Otherwise our visitors think that our blog never been updated.

Comment by cheez on July 30, 2009 @ 2:22 am

Hello jeff..i have tried this tip and works well. thanks!

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if you want to use static frontpage, the navigation of the blog should be placed rightly. Otherwise our visitors think that our blog never been updated.

Comment by Games Wallpaper on August 11, 2009 @ 11:44 pm

i’m using sticky plugin to make static page

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I am trying this on my entry for the Busby SEO Test blog. I will let you know how it goes.

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Comment by Smart Boy Designs on September 8, 2009 @ 4:46 am

Although it seems simple, creating a static Wordpress front page can get tricky. Thanks for the tutorial!

Comment by Jimmy Thakkar on September 9, 2009 @ 3:57 am

This is a good tweak for wordpress.

I look forward to more tips and guide from you regarding wordpress.

regards,
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Good stuff. I use wordpress for all my websites and I have recently started using static page. I find it gives me more control over what I get on my front page.

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wordpress seo Replied:
January 26th, 2010 at 5:17 pm

i agree with you, with this will be easy enough to get it done.

Comment by Marcela on January 31, 2010 @ 7:30 pm

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Comment by jacci on February 16, 2010 @ 12:00 am

“So you may want consider learning how to change this by hard coding the navigation bar in the themes header.php file.”

Any samples on how to do this? I’m having double home page issues.

Thanks,
Jacci

Comment by mafia wars on March 10, 2010 @ 5:45 pm

Hi,
thank for sharing custom wordpress static front page, it is really useful.

However, using static or page in wordpress has a weakness, less SEO friendly and more difficult to get indexed by search engine compare with dynamic.

Jeff Replied:
March 10th, 2010 at 8:01 pm

While WordPress sites seem to get indexed faster than a static HTML site I have no way to qualify that. My point would be the social aspects that can be incorporated into a WP site or blogs in general such as pinging and social bookmarking.

I tend to agree that static content, like using a static front page on a WP site, may reduce Google page rank. But you could do both and use static content as well as recent posts on the static front page, rendering your point moot and having the best of both.

There are, of course other factors determining page rank, such as backlinks and good original content. Even if you use a static front page and if you setup, optimize and post regularly on the WP site, even if the posts are not on the main page, Google will find it.

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