Do you want to create a static home page for your Wordpress blog? This is so much easier than many sites (even wordpress) make it to be. It allows you to use Wordpress for a simple CMS solution and put up websites in 1/10th the time you’d normally need to spend.
- Install at least Wordpress 2.3.1 to your root directory.
- Write a “page”, called Welcome to YourSite, or whatever you’d like the link to your home page to say.
- Create a second page and leave it blank, making the title “Blog” or whatever you’d like the link to your blog to say.
- In the admin area go to Options > Reading.
- Choose Front page displays > A static page.
- Set front page to “Welcome to YourSite”.
- Set posts page to “Blog”.
All done, no coding no template editing needed. Here’s an example site which uses this method and manages all content with Wordpress: http://OsJobber.com
