There are many things you can do with a static page and it is a great feature that has been added to WordPress. Having a static home page means having a home page that never changes. This page changes from being the page that has all your most recent posts to being the page that contains your home page message. As an example, our home page at How to Make Blog is a static home page. This works best for us as we can spread our ebook this way. We then created the Latest Updates page to show all of our latest posts.

How do you set a static home page?  It’s very easy.  You’re first going to want to create a new page and title it ‘Home’.  This will be the page that appears when you type in your domain.  On this page you’re going to want to have a introduction to what you’re site is and put anything else here you want your readers to immediately know.

Once you have created this page go into your WordPress dashboard.  Once you’re there look at the ‘Settings’ tab on the left and click on the down arrow to drop the list of options down.  Click on ‘Reading’ and select the ‘Static Page’ option and set it to your ‘Home’ page.

Static Home Page Settings

You now have a static home page!  When you do this you’ll also want to have a place for all your posts to go.  We suggest doing something similar to what we have done and create a Latest Updates page that will host them.

What is the difference between a page and a post in your wordpress blog?  Which one do you want for your blog?  The two are very similar but there are a few differences that will help you decide which one is right for you.

Posts appear in reverse chronological order.  The newest posts appear on top of the older posts so all the newest information is at the very front.  If your site is about the newest and latest news then you would most definitely post this type of information in a post.

A page tends to be more of a static (non-changing) informative article.  As you can see on our site we have a home page, latest updates page (which contain our posts), a contact page, and a privacy policy page.  These are put there to be permanent so they can be accessed at all times as they are very important.

So in reality you will not have to choose between the two at all, but put information that you want to always be seen in a page, and put information that will change frequently as you add new updates as posts.

There IS the possiblity that you can create an entire WordPress blog with pages, using parent categories to do this, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

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