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Static Landing Page in Wordpress blog

by CANIMBILL
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I have a small business blog called smallbizviz.com. I am targeting local, mostly-offline businesses and helping them increase their web presence.

I want to have my homepage be a static welcoming page for visitors, then have the blog be series of articles, along with resource pages etc.

My question is: how do i make a static homepage instead of landing on the blog/articles page? Do i need to install WP in a subdirectory and have a static html page in the root? or can i have a WP "page" be what people land on?

thanks for any help and advice!

Bill
#blog #landing #page #static #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Suzanne Morrison
    Hi Bill,

    I did this for my SEO blog - a static introductory section, followed by snippets of the latest posts.

    I can't guarantee that my instructions will work for every WordPress theme, but you can have a look and try this if you like. Here are the instructions:

    http://www.3stepstosearchenginesucce...t-in-wordpress

    Good luck with it

    Cheers,
    Suzanne
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  • Profile picture of the author Kelly Verge
    Either will work.

    The way I usually do it is set Wordpress to display a "page" as the homepage.

    Settings | Reading | "Front page displays" = "a static page" (then select the page from the drop-down).
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  • Profile picture of the author Pradeep Bhagwat
    Originally Posted by CANIMBILL View Post

    I have a small business blog called smallbizviz.com. I am targeting local, mostly-offline businesses and helping them increase their web presence.

    I want to have my homepage be a static welcoming page for visitors, then have the blog be series of articles, along with resource pages etc.

    My question is: how do i make a static homepage instead of landing on the blog/articles page? Do i need to install WP in a subdirectory and have a static html page in the root? or can i have a WP "page" be what people land on?

    thanks for any help and advice!

    Bill

    Hi, CANIMBILL

    It is very simple and no need to do anything else. I am giving you the simplest way to create Static page.

    You should do -

    1) Create a page (not post) and name it whatever you want. You can give name which you want your static page should be appear. Ex. Welcome etc.

    2) Go to Settings section where you will see general, writing, reading etc. tabs. Click Reading tab.

    3) Select A static page option.

    4) Use dropdown and Select front page which you have created page earlier. Save it. You have done it!

    See when you types your domain name then your Static page appears first! Now you can designe your static page as you wish. Hope you will not have any problem ahead.

    - Pradeep
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    You guys all gave INCOMPLETE instructions!
    You need to create 2 [TWO] Pages: one for the front, one for the blogs/posts.

    And you need to select BOTH in the Reading options:
    - one with your welcome text as front
    - one which is empty for displaying your posts (the blog itself)
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    • Profile picture of the author Pradeep Bhagwat
      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      You guys all gave INCOMPLETE instructions!
      You need to create 2 [TWO] Pages: one for the front, one for the blogs/posts.

      And you need to select BOTH in the Reading options:
      - one with your welcome text as front
      - one which is empty for displaying your posts (the blog itself)


      Thanks Istvan for completing information. I also got new information.

      - Pradeep
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    • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      You guys all gave INCOMPLETE instructions!
      You need to create 2 [TWO] Pages: one for the front, one for the blogs/posts.

      And you need to select BOTH in the Reading options:
      - one with your welcome text as front
      - one which is empty for displaying your posts (the blog itself)
      Yes and no.

      If the site has the most recent posts, categories or any number of navigational options you don't necessarily need to have a blog page. The default archive page would suffice in most cases.

      Now, if they want a dedicated blog option then yes, they need what you suggested.

      It's all in how you want the site to work and flow.
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      I'm all about that bass.

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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    WP has already two options "built in" for your static front page/sales page.

    It can be either a page or post (whereas there is really no significant difference), and you can set this right from your WP settings...eg. by setting a post as "sticky" or specifying a page which is always on the front.

    Furthermore, you can ALSO have a page dedicated to your blog entries, so blog entries would only appear on a certain page.

    What i usually do:

    Simply set a page or post as sticky/front...and really dont worry about the other stuff, just post "blogs" as usual and then display the most recent ones in a widget on the side. Also..have good categories and a category widget on the front.
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  • Profile picture of the author CANIMBILL
    thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!

    seriously, i appreciate all your help!

    Bill
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    SmallBizViz.com is where I help local offline businesses in central British Columbia get their business online!
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