In this short post, I will teach you how to have a static page displayed on your home page instead of the regular: latest 10 posts (or at least 10 is the default number).

By default, wordpress displays your latest posts (latest first). However, this can be changed to show a static page for your home page. To change this setting, go to your settings menu and pick reading from there.

Please note that you must have a static page in order to display it. By default, WordPress creates a static page and puts it on your blog, but some delete it because of the “hello world” content (so did I). If you don’t have any static page on your blog, you won’t even be able to see that setting.

Here we go: on the reading settings page, you’ll notice you can choose between “latest posts” (the number of posts can be changed as well) and a static page. To make your home page static, pick static and choose one of your pages.

That’s it :)

Note: make sure you have a navigation panel or your sidebar includes a link to latest posts or archive or something. Otherwise, your visitors won’t be able to check your posts and will see only your static content.

Hope it helps,

- Peter

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