This Beginner-level WordPress Tutorial shows you how to make a static WordPress Page your home page (also called “front” page).
NOTE: There is an updated version of this tutorial for WordPress 2.7 called WordPress Tutorial – How to Make a Static Page Your Home Page & Hide a Double Home Page Link.
The default home page in most WordPress themes shows 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 > Reading > Front Page [WordPress version 2.3 or earlier] or Settings > Reading > Front Page [WordPress version 2.5 or later]) .
This tutorial also shows you how to change the order of page navigation tabs or links.
Check out Parts 2 and 3 of this tutorial for ways to hide a main navigation button after you have made that page your Home page. (That way you don’t have two links to the same page in your main navigation, which can be confusing to your site visitors.)
- Make a Static Page Your Home Page – Part 2 (Use if you don’t have a widget-enabled theme)
- Make a Static Page Your Home Page – Part 3 (Use if you do have a widget-enabled theme)
If you have a widget-enabled WordPress theme, look at Part 3 first. This is probably the best solution as long as you can use widgets in your sidebar.
If you are not sure what a widget is, check out this tutorial: How to Add Flickr Photo Widget to WordPress Theme Sidebar
Filed under: WordPress Tutorials | Tagged: beginner, front page, home page, howto, markmclaren, mcbuzz, page, static, tutorial, WordPress |
Free WordPress Tutorials - Business Blogging 101 
how do you remove the wordpress complete tutorials button? that was what i was hoping you would get to…
@Tom
Thanks for your comment.
Check out Part 3 of the tutorial http://snurl.com/3erpf (a link is also included at the beginning of this post). This technique requires that you have a widget-enabled sidebar in your WordPress theme.
If you don’t have a widget-enabled sidebar, check out Part 2 of the tutorial.
Mark McLaren
[…] video tutorial on Business Blogging 101 describes the process very […]
[…] Here is an interesting video to watch at Business Blogging 101 about “Make a Static Page Your Home Page“. […]
Thank you so much for this tutorial!!