Change “Home” page in your wordpress site to your own created page

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Have you noticed that when you type your URL in the web browser, your front page would be your posts by default? In other words, you want to change wordpress home page as a static one. Mostly because you don’t want your site appears as a blog.
In the video, we will change the settings from default settings to choosing static page in Admin page. However if it won’t help, you might want to change the order of the page ID in your navigation code. See this video on how to do this.
Backing up or copying your file is a wise idea before we change anything!

Using wordpress 3.0 Twenty Ten theme? if yes, you may want to check this video, it’s a lot easier to do this with Twenty Ten.

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14 comments

1 Sachindra { 03.25.10 at 3:23 pm }: Here you have added Home as a page and changed the settings in admin. This is quite okay. but then whats the need of a posts page that you have added further??? This remains my doubt.

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Dina Reply:
March 25th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
The post page is to hold our posts/Articles. Do you mean you don’t want to display your posts at all?

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2 Sachindra { 03.25.10 at 4:09 pm }: okay thanks for this Dina.. lemme try this myself .. I will surely let u know if u get this done.. being a beginner , i guess it takes a bit more time.. thanks again…

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Dina Reply:
March 25th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Sure Sachindra Take your time, I am a beginner like you too, so i understand. If you have problems, let me know, i will help if i can. Greetings

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3 gatos { 03.26.10 at 8:15 pm }: Hi,
I have since a couple of days my new site and I want to make some
menu buttons and also I want to post the themes there, to be linked
with these buttons seperate without to be published
also in the front page. Is any way for this?
Is it possible?
Thanks

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Dina Reply:
March 26th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Hey gatos,
Thanks for coming by and commenting.
I don’t really understand what you meant, but please watch this video first, and we will see if it helps
Greetings

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4 gatos { 03.26.10 at 10:25 pm }: Sorry, nothing comes to see on this video.
I mean, I do not want my posts to be posted only in one site, one
after the other, I want to have them in different sites- subsites
I have created in my blog.
And I mean also that the front page stays the same post
with something like greetings to the visitors.

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Dina Reply:
March 26th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
I think i get what you meant, I guess you will have to edit the index.php file gatos but I am also beginner as well lol. I haven’t tried, but you gave me an idea

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5 gatos { 03.26.10 at 10:56 pm }: Ooooh with the word sites I mean pages I heva created in my blog.
Sorry

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Dina Reply:
March 27th, 2010 at 6:42 am
No problem

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6 Sandy { 05.11.10 at 5:13 pm }: Thx for this one! usefull!

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Dina Reply:
May 11th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Hey Sandy! I am so happy it was useful for you Thanks!

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7 Pityu { 06.23.10 at 9:51 pm }: You are very helpful to me.
Thank you very much for your works !

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Dina Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:35 pm
@Pityu, You are very welcome! I am so glad it was helpful

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