Make home page static

1. Login to WordPress

2. Go to the Administration > Write > Write Page panel

3. Create the page content, then publish the page.

4. Go to the Administration > Options > Reading panel

5. Click the option for “Front Page Displays a Static Page”.

6. Select the page you created in step 3 from the drop down list.

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Optional: If you want some other page to display the “usual” list of blog posts.

3.5 – Create the page that will have the blog posts.
6.5 – Select *that* page in the Options > Reading panel as the “posts page”

You can link to that from your home page or your navigation bar.

This doesn’t seem work for 2.0.11 or at least on the Reading options like the way you generally go about setting a static home page.

You should really upgrade to 2.3.1

I don’t believe static home pages were an inbuilt function until 2.1 or 2.2. For earlier installations of WordPress, upgrade ?? or use this plug-in:

https://www.semiologic.com/software/publishing/static-front/

I did this and it worked…except…now I have my static home page titled Weird Things and I have a page titled Home, and they both have the same content. I like having Weird Things as my home page because I can edit it and that name appears in the blue bar at the very top of the browser.

How do I get rid of the Home nav tab?

dhanchey, I had the same problem. My static home page was perfect until I started messing with the reading options. Here’s what you can do.

There seems to be a bug you can exploit. Name your static home page. Any name will do. Make it into a static page through reading options as described above.

Then go back and edit that page, delete the title and add a space (I added three spaces and it works).

That’s all! The title of the page is still displayed but it’s just space(s) so it’s invisible.

I’m using 2.3.2 but it worked in older versions too.

That’s not the best solution.
Usually, the problem with “double” homepage-link is due to a hard coded link in th header.php file. Just remove it and you should be fine.

I understand that I need to go into header.php and remove some code. Could you tell me exactly what code I’m looking for to delete? I’ve tried this before but forgot exactly what I did. Thanks.

You remove this line:
<li><a title="Home is where the heart is" href="https://www.weirdthingsthathappened.com">Home</a></li> or whatever code is outputting it.
Most likely it IS included in the code where your wp_list_pages tag is.

Thanks, I did that and it works perfectly!