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WordPress Tutorial – Make a Static Page Your Home/Front Page

Posted on 01 March 2009 by Editor

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NOTE: Updated tutorial at bit.ly for WordPress version 2.7. This Beginner-level WordPress Tutorial by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications shows you how to make a static WordPress Page your home page (also called “front” page). The default WordPress home page in most themes shows the chronological blog post entries with the most recent post at the top. You can create a static page using the Dashboard – Write – Page, and then tell WordPress to use that page as your home page (using Options …

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17 Comments For This Post

  1. adryenn Says:

    Thanks! I was banging my head against a brick wall for hours and here you solve it in a matter of minutes! :)

  2. quicksilvertope Says:

    How do you link page to the second page?

  3. roeybannon Says:

    Thanks! This video tutorial was really helpful and clear to understand.

    Peace,
    Roey.

  4. MegaChurched Says:

    I added pages to my wordpress blog tekindoor dotcolm but can’t get the blog off my home page

  5. mcbuzzvideo Says:

    Use YouTube search or scroll through McBuzzvideo channel WordPress tutorial videos to find “Make Static Page Front/Home Page – Part 3″ or “Make Static Page Front/Home Page – Part 2″. One of these should do the trick. Thanks for your question!

  6. pjb84 Says:

    Can you please tell me how to remove the duplicate page tab that you where talking about at the end??? Thank YOU!!!

  7. clockworkpro Says:

    Hey Mark,

    I actually wanted to find out how to make the Complete List tab disappear. It would be a bit confusing to have two items in your nav with the same page.

    thanks very much!

    -s

  8. mcbuzzvideo Says:

    edarz -
    Need a bit more info in order to help you out.
    Mark M.

  9. edaaaaaaaaarz Says:

    I didn’t understand anything

  10. everbread Says:

    Thanks for putting your tutorials up!

  11. mcbuzzvideo Says:

    Thanks, Kaliopy! Glad you like it. Thanks for taking the time to let me know. Happy Blogging!

  12. Kaliopy Says:

    Excellent tutorial. Thank you!

  13. mcbuzzvideo Says:

    Thanks, Meredith. I don’t know much about anonymous comments. You could try contacting YouTube about that.

  14. meromalley Says:

    This was so helpful –I love the way you instruct -Meredith
    Do you know how to have people leave anonymous comments? Thanks
    Meredith

  15. iphonegurudotNET Says:

    Thanks !

    Great work…

  16. mcbuzzvideo Says:

    Excellent. Thanks, hodog87. Let me know if there are other topics you would like to see covered.
    Mark M.

  17. hodog87 Says:

    Great tutorial, Mark!

    It answered a couple key questions I had about static pages with WP. Thanks! 5/5 from me.

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