How to use a WordPress page as home page

WordPress is a blogging platform. So the home page is an index of latest blog posts. If you are using WordPress as a website, you might want to have a static page as the home page. How do you set a page as the home page for your WordPress website?

It is fairly easy to replace the default blog index with a static page as home page of your WordPress website.

Step 1: Create a page that will serve as the new home page. Let us assume that the title of the page which has to be set as home page is ‘My Home Page’. Add whatever content you want to appear on the home page and publish this page.

Step 2: Create another page in WordPress and give it the title ‘Blog’. Ordinarily, you should not add any content to this page. Publish this page.

Step 3: In the ‘Settings’ menu in the left, select ‘Reading’. To use a page as the home page, select “A static page” for “Front page displays”. Now, select the appropriate page from the “Front page” drop down menu. In our case, it will be ‘My Home Page’.

Step 4: As the home page no longer shows the recent blog posts, we need to set a page where the latest posts are displayed. From the “Posts page” menu select the page we created earlier i.e. ‘Blog’.

Congrats! You have successfully changed the home page of your WordPress website to a static page.