Connecting Theme’s Frontpage Template With a New Page

Hi guys,

I installed a theme and customized its front page to my liking. However, I can’t connect the theme’s front page template with a page I created in the dashboard. My site’s URL shows the front page and everything is working fine, even though I don’t have a home page in the back-end.

What I was trying to do (I don’t know if this is necessary but it’s what I thought should happen) is to have an appropriately-named page e.g. Home page, that if viewed from the dashboard, would open the customized front page template. However, when I create a new page, I’m taken to the editor to add a title, text, etc.

Here is the link to the screenshot showing the situation. https://snipboard.io/QhjcVu.jpg

Here are my questions:

1. Do I really need to have a page called ‘Home’ in the backend or is it okay to just have the theme’s template opening the site’s url?
2. If I don’t need a ‘Home’ page in the Pages section and my ‘Reading’ settings are set to ‘Your latest posts’, how will I set up my ‘blog’ page to show the latest posts?
3. If I create a ‘Home’ page in the Pages section, how do I connect it to the already-customized front page template since the list of templates in the ‘Quick Edit’ dropdown list doesn’t include the front page template?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.