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Designing the Home Page

Designing the Home Page

Learn to set up a homepage for the website.

Designing a landing page

WordPress was designed to be a blogging platform so by default, the landing page is the blog listing page. However, we do not want the blog listing (powered by index.php) to be the main landing page. Instead, we want a homepage to be the landing page.

To demonstrate the difference between the homepage and blog page, let's create two new pages. Click the "Pages" option from the admin dashboard and create a new page.

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Creating pages for home and blog
Creating pages for home and blog

We will name this page Home. Publish this page (without adding any content to it) and then create another page called Blog in the same way.

In the admin dashboard, locate ...