WordPress allows you to create a page and set it as the static homepage for your site – the first page displayed when someone visits your site. You could use an image, a video or some text as your homepage. Follow these steps.
- Create a page and name it Home.
- Add content to it (an image, video, or text). Upload or insert the image (if it is already in your media gallery). Ideal images sizes are 900 pixels wide and 600 pixels tall. Be sure to select the full size image.
Note: if you use an image between 630px and 900px wide, it may not display centered – see this comment thread for more. - Navigate to Settings > Reading in the WordPress dashboard.
- In the Front Page Displays section select a static page.
- For front page select Home from the dropdown menu you just created.
selecting your static home page
Removing the Home page from your navigation (deprecated)
- Note: These instructions are for versions of WPFolio prior to 1.6.x)
- Find the page id number. The easiest way to do this is to preview the page and look for this format in the URL /?page_id=2 (In this case 2 is the page ID.)
- In the Pages Widget in your Navbar enter the page ID into the exclude field This will hide the page from the Navigation Bar.
add the pageID for your home page to the exclude field
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Love your theme. We’re using it to show off nature in a city park we want to protect in Madison, WI
Question: Is there any way to create a rotating “slide” on the home page, drawing from images within?
thanks,
Jim Carrier
Yes… anything is possible! There’s some javascript code that would do this, and it’s something I’ve thought about implementing. But I don’t know how to do it right now. I would try a plugin if you’re looking for a quick solution. Otherwise, if you find some good code we can roll into the theme, that would be great.
If you set up a gallery for the homepage and use the plugin Photo Galleria, it will create a slideshow on the front page; you can look at my website to see it in action. The plugin doesn’t have great documentation or tech support, but looks fairly clean.
Thanks for some great code! I don’t have the budget for a custom website yet, and this is a great interim solution.
Oops, disregard the above. Ran into some browser compatibility issues with the plugin.
I love this theme – especially the way it presents posts on a category page. I would love to make my “services” category page my homepage…but can’t work out how to do with with these instructions. All and any help gratefully received…
You would have to modify the code a bit. If you’re using WPFolio 1.6 you could use the built in child theme to modify the index.php file and probably do it that way. I would post this on the WordPress Support Forums or hire someone on WPQuestions if you can’t figure it out yourself.
This may be a little late but there is the FrontPage Manager plugin that works pretty well.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/frontpage-manager/
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply (sorry for my delay in replying – I’ve been off the grid travelling.) Unfortunately the FrontPage Manager doesn’t seem to bring up the category page layout…I’ll have to try the WP Forums. Thanks again.
hi,
I made a page and set it as the static homepage.
However I have a strange problem,
I made my page first with a pic center aligned and some text. When I set it as my static home page, the pic moves to left in home page, more like left aligned. But in the HTML code, it is still center aligned.
Did anybody encountered this problem and know the solution?
regards
Hamed, this is a bug and if you come up with a fix, submit it and we will roll it into the next release.
hey there
is it possible to make the home page a full screen image – is this possible with this theme??
Thanks
what does full screen mean? Nevermind, actually, anything is possible, you just need to learn the CSS and how to change the template tags to do it. If you look at the example sites – like juliaschwadron.com you’ll see one example of a static home page without changing code.
Hi
Is it possible to use sidebars when using static home page. It would make my design lot easier.
best regards.
Gardar
There’s not a super easy way, but if you are relatively savvy with CSS and PHP, you can set up a custom page template and add a sidebar to it – read about it in the Codex.
Good idea though – I may add a template like this to WPFolio Two, you should check that out as well.
How do I remove homepage from my navigation (deprecated)? in version 1.74?
I believe with a custom menu.