Designing the Home Page
Explore how to design the WordPress home page by setting a static landing page separate from the blog listing. Understand the use of front-page.php and index.php templates and the difference between is_home() and is_front_page() functions to properly configure your site’s homepage and posts page.
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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.
We will name this page Home. Publish this page (without adding any ...