How To Use A Static Front Page With WordPress
There may be a reason that you want to use the flexibility of WordPress to run a website but don’t want the main page to “look” like a blog. WordPress offers the option to use a static front page. This front page can be easily created like a blog post, it can have the same look as your blog, with the same sidebar items or it can have a completely different look all together. This WordPress Guide and the link to another at the end of it will show you how.
If you want to use a static front page for your WordPress blog you will first need to create it. From the WordPress dashboard click Write and then the sub-menu Write Page. Create your new page just like you would a post and publish it.
Now you need to create another regular page for the URL, or the holder (for lack of a better term) for regular blog posts main URL. Create a new page and give it the title blog, or anything you want. Again don’t bother writing any content, on the right side type the same name as the title in the Post Slug box and click publish.
Now to specify using a static front page, click Settings or Options then the Reading subpanel. Choose the Static Page option, specify your new page (not the blog page) as the front page and the newly created blog page as the Posts Page and click Update Options.
Now your blog will always show the same page as the front page. But what about your blog? Where did it go? If you followed my directions and used blog as the the Posts Page the URL should be YourBlogsURL.com/blog. If your blog is in a directory called blog then the URL will be YourBlogsURL.com/blog/blog. Having a blog/blog URL isn’t all that cool huh? Well this is intended for use on a website ran entirely on WordPress without a static HTML front page. But you can use a different name in the title and Post Slug when you create the new Posts Page.
You could even use WordPress like a regular website by just creating new pages and no actual blog posts with this option.
If you want to customize your static front page, a related post with a video can be found here: How To Create A Custom WordPress Page Template
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[…] The next Options subpanel to click is the Reading subpanel. Clicking it will give you the option to use a static front page for your blog. This will show a page that you create instead of the regular blog loop. To learn how to properly use the static front page option check out this post: How To Use A Static Front Page With WordPress. […]
thx man… very nice and helpfull post.
This is helpful info! Thanks a bunch! I can’t tell you how delighted I am that I typed in “create a static page in wordpress” and the first thing I clicked on actually had relevant, useful information!