Using a WordPress Page as your home page

I’d like to use something other than my recent posts as my home page. Is that possible within WordPress?

It’s not only possible it’s relatively easy. The first step is to create a page to serve as your new home page. For the purpose of this example, we’ll call it “My New Home Page.”

1. Under the Manage panel select the Pages tab.
2. Click on Create a New Page.
3. Give the page a title, “My New Home Page.”
4. Create the content for your home page just as you would a blog post.
5. Set the Page Status to “Published.”
6. Click the Publish button.

While you’re still in the Write Page subpanel, create a second page:

1. Title this one “Recent Posts” (or whatever you want to call the page that your recent posts will appear on).
2. You don’t need to have any Page Content for this one.
3. Set the Page Status to “Published.”
4. Click the Publish button.

Now you’re ready tell WP to use your new page as the home page:

1. In the Options panel select the Reading tab.
2. At the top of the Reading Options subpanel, to change the front page to your new home page, select “A static page” for Front page displays.
3. Select “My New Home Page” from the Front page drop down menu.
4. Now tell WP which page to use to display your recent posts. From the Posts page menu select the “Recent Posts” page you created earlier.
5. Click Update Options

View your site. “My New Home Page” should now be your home page.

Note: Any Page Content you have entered for the page you designate as your Posts Page will be overwritten by the listing of your recent posts.

See also the WordPress Codex page: Reading Options Subpanel

By default, newly created pages have a Page Order of zero which will put them at the front of your menu if you forget to change it.

For more about the wp_list_pages WordPress template tag, see http://codex.wordpress.org/wp_list_pages

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