Convert “Your latest posts” homepage to “static page” homepage

  • Hello everybody, I hope you are all well. This is my first time ever writing a question in WP forums.

    My current home page is a default theme home page set to display “your latest posts”, however I want to change it to “static page” so that I can edit some things and improve my SEO and Security. Since my home page is not showing in “Pages” tab, I want to create a new page in “Pages” tab, name it the home page, and copy my whole theme home page to it so that I can use it as “static” home page. Is this possible and if it isn’t, is there a better alternative? Is there something I’m missing?

    Thanks in advance for making the time to explain this to a fellow WP newbie. ??

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  • You can set your home page to a static page under settings > reading settings. First create a page that you want to select to be the home page though. Most themes are to set to display specific content on the home page, others are not.

    Thread Starter budo0

    (@budo0)

    I know that. My question is How do I create a new page in pages tab and copy my whole front home page in there?

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    The default blog listing and a static home page involve entirely different queries. A blog query returns several posts, the number being whatever your posts per page setting is. A static query returns just the one page’s object and nothing more. If you still want a blog listing on a static page, you’ll need a custom template that queries for all the posts that you used to get automatically.

    If you create a template and name it front-page.php, you could code it to output anything you like. If you start customizing templates, it’s best that they are contained within a child theme that you create.

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