Wordpress does not automatically know which page you want to be to the homepage so we need to set this.
The home page is the first page a visitor is shown when they come to your site – it is also automatically linked to when you click your logo.
First we will create a basic home page.
- Go to Pages > Add New and in the title type Home
- Click Publish
- Now add another page and call it Blog (you can change this name later if you want to)
- Click Publish
- Now go to Settings > Reading
- Under ‘Your homepage displays’ select ‘A static page’ – this means that your homepage will be a static page not a blog post overview page.
- Just below that set the dropdown for Homepage to the page you called ‘Home’.
- Set the dropdown for Posts page to the page you called ‘Blog’. This tells WordPress to put an overview or list of all of your blogposts on this page.
- !Important You can also set here the maximum number of posts to show on one page.