How to Create a “Static” Home Page

By default the Stardust WordPress Theme displays your most recent blog entries on the home page of your site (below your “Featured” Home page). If you would like to use one of your existing WordPress pages as your home page and have a separate “Blog” page as a link in your navigation menu, follow the steps below:

STEP 1: From the WordPress Dashboard, click “Pages > Add New …”

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STEP 2: Give your new page a title and enter the contents of the page in the page editor.

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STEP 3: In the “Attributes” section (in the right-hand column), click the Template drop-down menu and select the “Static Home Page” template.

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STEP 4: Click the “Publish” button.

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STEP 5: From the WordPress Dashboard, click “Pages > Add New…”

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STEP 6: Title the new page “Blog” and leave the content area blank.

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STEP 7: Click the “Publish” button.

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STEP 8: From the WordPress Dashboard, click “Settings > Reading …”

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STEP 9: Select the radio button next to “A static page” and select the Front page you created in step 2 and the Blog page you created in step 5  in the drop-down menus.

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STEP 10: Click the “Save Changes” button.

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