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Do you have a website powered by WordPress but don’t want the landing page at “yoursite.com” to have the appearance of a blog? If you would rather have the front page of your site display a static page of your choosing rather than all of your latest blog posts, you can easily make this change from your WordPress Dashboard.

For example, when I was designing this site, I knew I wanted a static page with only my logo and navigation features visible on my front page. I designed this page and called it Home. I made another page to display all my blog posts and called it Blog. By creating a few pages with this in mind and changing a few simple things in my WordPress Reading Settings, I was able to tell WordPress when and where I wanted the content of these pages displayed when someone visits my site.

Here are the how-to’s of it:

Creating Your Pages

The first thing you need to decide is what page you want to show on the front page of your site. Suppose you want your About page to display when someone visits “yoursite.com”. Create this page will all the text and images you would like displayed. Next you need to create a page for your blog posts to display. Let’s say you call this page Blog. This is what this page’s set-up should look like:

1. Login to your WordPress Dashboard at
“yoursite.com/wp-admin”.

2. On the left side, under Pages click on Add New.

3. Add your title but do not add any content.

5. Publish this page.

Front Page Display Settings

Once your pages are created, changing the front page of your site from a dynamic (blog posts) page to a static page is a simple process which takes all of about two minutes. Do the following:

1. Login to your WordPress Dashboard at
“yoursite.com/wp-admin”.

2. On the left side, scroll down until you see Settings.

3. Select Reading.

You should now be on the Reading Settings page of your dashboard. Find the section at the top of the page entitled Front Page Displays.

1. Click the circle beside A static page.

2. Choose the page you want displayed on the front page of your site from the drop-down menu. I chose Home.

3. Choose the page to display your posts. This page is where your blog posts will appear.

Voila! Now you have a website which will carry the same static message or logo on your front page every time someone visits!

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