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

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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This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 9:32 am and is filed under WordPress Videos. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

19 Responses to “WordPress Tutorial – Make a Static Page Your Home/Front Page”

  1. Thank you for making this easy to understand! I’m grateful for teachers who use video to show concepts because it’s much easier for me to grasp than to read something and then try to figure it out.

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

  3. quicksilvertope on January 20th, 2010 at 9:32 am

    How do you link page to the second page?

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

    Peace,
    Roey.

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

  6. 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!

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

  8. 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

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

  10. I didn’t understand anything

  11. Thanks!

  12. Thanks for putting your tutorials up!

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

  14. Excellent tutorial. Thank you!

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

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

  17. iphonegurudotNET on January 20th, 2010 at 9:32 am

    Thanks !

    Great work…

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

  19. 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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