How to Define a Static Home Page in WordPress

Unless your WordPress Theme has specific option to dominate the ‘Home Page’ settings, the steps below should help you set up a static home page.

 

Step 1. Make two WordPress Pages from the “Add New Page” panel.

·    Name the first page “Home” (or another name) as your “static” front page.

·    Add content you would like to see within the content area of the “abode” page.

·    Publish the Page.

·    Title the second page “Blog” (or you could call it “News,” “Articles,” etc.). This piece of paper will be a place-holder for showing the Posts on your site.

·    DO NOT add satisfied to the Blog Page. Leave it blank. Any satisfied here will be ignored only the name is used.

·    Publish the Page.

    

Step 2. Navigate to Dashboard / Administration > Settings > appraisal sheet.

·    Define page by setting ‘face page display:’ to ‘a standing page’ and choose the first page you created above for ‘Front page.’
If your WordPress place will require a blog section, set ‘post page’ to the page you formed for this over. Otherwise, leave this blank.

·    Click Save Changes.

Just track these simple steps to set your WordPress still Page. Here’s additional going on How to Create a WordPress Static FrontPage and Separate WordPress Blog Page.

Some More Useful Tips for WordPress basic:

Tip #1: allow “Permalinks” to show the “page title” in the tackle –

Because /index.php?p=423 defeat the purpose of creation a still front page. While we are business this “still front page,” you can modify the content on that web page at any time by editing the Page.

·    By evade WordPress use web URLs which have question marks and lots of numbers in them; however, WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URL organization for your permalinks and archives.
This can advance the aesthetics, usability, and forward-compatibility of your links.

·    In your WordPress organization panel go to setting > Permalinks > Permalink Settings

1.   Under Common, Settings select “Post name.”

2.   Click keep Changes

Tip #2 : Create a Primary Menu

by default, if you do not set up a menu, all of the pages you’ve created will show you Navigation Menu.
To have more control and to prevent any issues it is recommended that you create your menu.

·    In your WordPress organization panel go to Settings > Appearance > Menus

1.   To the left, you should see “Pages”, “Links,” “Categories”, “Tags,” and maybe other option depending on your subject like “slide,” “Portfolio,” “Carousel,” etc.

2.   At the top, you should see two tabs. “Edit Menus” and “Manage Locations.” The options in “Manage Locations” depend on the theme you are using. If you are using feature Pro, you will probably have two Theme Locations. “Primary Menu” and “Footer Menu.”

3.   To the right of that is where you create and edit your custom menus. If you haven’t created a custom menu, you should just see a plus “+” symbol.

4.   Click the plus symbol or find the click-able text “create a new menu” to the accurate of the “Select a menu to edit” choice at the top.

5.   Enter a given name for your new menu. Amazing like “Main Menu” will suffice.

6.   Click Create Menu

·    Now you’ll customize your menu.

1.   To the left Look for the “Pages” option. Select “View All.”

2.   Look for any page that you may have created earlier.

3.   Select it and click “Add to Menu.”

4.   Look for any other “Pages” that you’ve created like “Blog” and add them to the menu.

5.   Arrange them any way you like, by dragging and dropping them into the desired location. You can create sub-menu items where needed by dragging the menu item slightly to the right forming a menu hierarchy.

6.   Click “Save Menu.”